Distributor upgrade.

[BearlyFunctioning]

I'm going to be replacing the distributor in my 1982 Sea Ray 225 EC that has a stock mercruiser 228 in it. To upgrade to electronic ignition was not much more than the $300ish it would cost me to get a new points distributor to my door. I decided on a PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTOR D.U.I. (Davis Unified Ignition) H.E.I. marine distributor for $340. It is a one 12v wire hookup with the shift interrupt wire going to the tac wire of the new distributor. After it is built I should see it by 7/24/15 to install it. Of the wires now currently going to the original distributor and coil how do I find the shift interrupt wire and a clean 12v keyed wire needed to hook this up, and what to do with the unused wires, dead end them or jumper some together? A little (or a lot of) guidance would be appreciated. Has any one else used this distributor, good/bad things to report?

 

[BearlyFunctioning]

By the way I forgot my engine serial number, it is 6107447.

 

[888]

purple wire from + side of coil for ur keyed 12v and the shift interrupt wire I believe is white with green stripe or white with black stripe. Just follow wire from the switch,all other wires leftover can be cut and taped off. I went with same dizzy with my new rebuild and its the best thing going out there for marine dizzys

 

[BearlyFunctioning]

Thank you for the tips. It was also good to hear from someone that has had good success with the same "dizzy".

 

[thumpar]

The + side of the coil is going to be a resistor wire so it will only have around 7-9 volts. I would run a new wire but you could go off the electric choke if you wanted.

 

[BearlyFunctioning]

A full clean 12v is needed. I Was hoping to find a switched 12v in the engine bay. My choke is heated by exhaust not by electricity. Thanks for the head up. How do I test the + feed to the coil to see if there is indeed a resister wire in there?

 

[BearlyFunctioning]

If I could find the resistor section of the wire then that could eliminate running ALL new from the key. Can anybody help out with that?

 

[888]

I missed reading ur old dizzy was points so ya the constant wire will be resisted. Use the other wire on + side of coil but u will have to move that wire on backside of ignition switch to constant 12v because it will be hooked up to cranking side of switch or run a new wire and dont worry about using a relay as that dizzy doesnt pull much amps