I am looking into standalone EMS options for my project and many of them, particularly the ones I'm considering, use a wasted spark setup on 8 cylinder applications.
The factory coils have 3 wires each, 1 wire goes to the ignitor, another to ground, and another to the ECU at pin 44.
All of the grounds are tied together on each bank, and the "ECU" wires on the coils all tied together and connect to pin 44 on the ECU. The wires to the ignitors are all individual.
Most aftermarket coils only have 2 wires, a ground and a power. The EMS I'm interested in has a built in CDI and can drive the coils directly. Do I simply connect all of the coil grounds to ground as they are from the factory, ignore the wires that go to pin 44, and then tie the positives of 1/6, 8/5, 7/4, and 3/2 together to each of the EMS outputs to fire those coils simultaneously?
This is something I will be setting up in the distant future, but it was on my mind and something I'm trying to understand better.
Thanks!
