RB Engine Coil Retrofit

Post by **Darius** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:03 pm

You should leave a loop or some kind of access to the #1 cylinder wire at the 7-pin plug so you can easily hook up a timing light to it. Just a little reminder before you install it and everything.

Post by **BoostFab** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:42 pm

Darius wrote:You should leave a loop or some kind of access to the #1 cylinder wire at the 7-pin plug so you can easily hook up a timing light to it. Just a little reminder before you install it and everything.

no need to, you can clip the timing light to any spark plug cable directly as it'll be exposed.

Post by **matafied** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:17 pm

well i am very very happy with this set up, only costed right at 100 dollors and it works flawlessly.here are a couple of the installed product

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5386-...w.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5387-...w.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5388-...A.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5389-...g.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5390-...g.jpg

dont mind the mess im gonna clean it up this weekend

Post by **BoostFab** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:41 pm

looking good. all you have left is hide the coilpack and the spark wires, no one even notice difference

Post by **POOPmouth** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:02 am

awsome setup- Great job

Post by **pdvorak** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:11 pm

i have a question about this, when you connect cylinders 1-6, 2-5 & 3-4 together each of them to a coil. does it matter were cylinder 1-6, 2-5, 3-4 are either on the top or bottom of the coil?

Post by **matafied** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:44 am

not sure if your talking about the spark plug wires or the trigger wires?? here are a couple paint sketches this might clear it up for you

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5416-...g.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5417-...A.jpg

Post by **pdvorak** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:45 am

thanks, that cleared it up for me.

Post by **300Plus** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:31 am

I wonder how this setup would be wired on a stock ecu RB25 series II

Post by **matafied** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:40 am

The same way, you just have to wire in the igniter.Take my word for it, I got curious and ended up frying this chip in my ecu on my daily driver.

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5418-...g.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5419-...A.jpg

http://is.rely.net/3-117-5420-...g.jpg

Lucky for me I had an extra parts ecu lying around that I cannibalized

Post by **l0nestar** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:22 am

Eewie! Burnt electronics FTL! Glad to see you had a spare!

Website · Post by **USMCgetsome** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:22 pm

what spark plug wires. i want to mirror your setup as much as possible.

Post by **BoostFab** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:28 pm

pdvorak wrote:i have a question about this, when you connect cylinders 1-6, 2-5 & 3-4 together each of them to a coil. does it matter were cylinder 1-6, 2-5, 3-4 are either on the top or bottom of the coil?

it doesn't matter top or bottom of the terminal, but as far as the 1+6, 2+5, 3+4 are on its own coil bank. the firing order will be messed up and may kill your engine if you don't. picture it in your head, it's pretty simple.

Post by **matafied** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:30 am

KUILLIN_DRIFTER wrote:what spark plug wires. i want to mirror your setup as much as possible.

their accel here is a pic, part # 5040B

Post by **DORI-DRFT** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:23 pm

Are you using the stock ignitor or did you just trim it?

Post by **matafied** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:12 am

yes stock igniter

Post by **sinnerstar** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:10 am

Nice to see that people are putting my write-up and photos to good use, since theres no mention of my site just wanted to say it came from here http://www.dsd.co.nz

Dan

Post by **matafied** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:06 am

sinnerstar wrote:Nice to see that people are putting my write-up and photos to good use, since theres no mention of my site just wanted to say it came from here http://www.dsd.co.nz

Dan

your my hero

Post by **sinnerstar** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:57 am

Haha cheers, just doing my bit

Post by **themadscientist** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:47 pm

klh6686 wrote:
The only reason to do this mod is if you are having problems with the stock ones and don't want to spend upwards of $500 on splitfire coils and don't want to spend upwards of $50 per stock coil to have it mess up down the road.

The coils in my sig are up for sale.

Post by **tintdude69** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:54 pm

chalk up another successful happy retrofit. for the amount of time and price its pretty much amazing...

Post by **-wj-** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:00 pm

Matafied !!!

I need your help !

You seem to have the exact same setup as me (rb25det series 1) but you DO have the wasted spark system running!

After installing my kit, it wasn't running on no.4 and no.6

in this picture : http://is.rely.net/3-117-5221-...Q.jpg

I see the exact same 2 plugs I have, the 6pin plug going from the ignitor to the coilpacks and the 2 pin plug with the power and ground wires.

I see that you have somehow connected the ground wire to the 6pin plug !!! How and where ?

these are my plugs : http://www.wjweb.nl/image/DSC00122.JPGh ... C00121.JPG

Need to have this fixed by the end of the week, so kind of in a hurry, don't want to refit the coilpacks

Post by **matafied** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:32 am

Yea I think that could be part of your problem, the 2 pin plug on our application is power and timing reference (black wire), their is no ground on the plugs, that black wire on the 2 pin plug gose back to #1 and #6, but their is a ground on a ring terminal that loops around to all the coil packs that’s on the cylinder head, I just used it to ground the bracket I made, so you don’t need it at all, just me being extra anal. Ours is a little different from the diagram posted but essentially the same thing. Also double check your wiring, we all make simple mistakes some times so retrace your steps and don’t loom everything up until your tried it and is working fine. I haven’t had any problems with this on my ride, best mod for dollar ive done. So it dose work, good luck and let me know if you get it strait or if you have any other questions

Post by **matafied** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:04 am

this is what i used to ground my bracket

http://is.rely.net/3-117-6254-...g.jpg

Post by **matafied** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:18 am

well just thought i would inform those who are interested that i finished my s2 rb25 over the weekend with a ebay ingniter that i scored for 9 dollors lol so it dose work the same on s2 with the help of igniter

http://is.rely.net/3-117-7828-...A.jpgh ... 0-...g.jpg

Post by **matafied** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:48 am

ok quick update,i was running this on my car for about a week when i started noticing the car start chopping up in the higher rpm range and it was gradualy getting worse. after some troubleshooting i discovered that the factory rb coil power wire was not effecient enoph to supply the big GM coils. so just to be safe i ran a ground wire from the battery to my igniter ground (center pin on 7 pin connector) and a new power wire from B+ on a relay and used the factory coil power wire to switch the relay. and vala all better i checked my timing and have been driving all week with no problems. so anyone that is running this and having issues no biggie its a simple fix.

Post by **the_garynator** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:39 am

THANKS A TON!!

I'm currently wiring my new coil up and I'll go back and make sure I use larger gauge wire.

Thanks again!-Gary

Post by **StricNyne** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:52 am

how can i make this work with a haltech e6k i have a gm coil and an ignitor but NO harness, but i assume i can use spade connectors, well my harness is the haltech one

Post by **StricNyne** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:58 am

actually i found it w00t its part of the harness i just got 5 wires, that are labeled COil-VE, local gnd, 12v ign, and these 2 are the e6k ign output and they are ign signal, and signal gnd here is the instructions http://www.haltech.com/downloads/e6k-manual.pdf and stupid comp wont let me get page
Modified by StricNyne at 3:19 PM 7/2/2007

Post by **mott6904** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:10 pm

Is there any way to take out the igniter when running a wasted spark setup? Also does the polarity matter on the coil?
Modified by mott6904 at 4:25 PM 12/17/2007

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