Thread: How do you ground an HEI??

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Originally Posted by nitrowarrior

Wait a minute...you mean to tell me somebody has busted a knuckle working on these things and actually threw a wrench??????? I don't know about the rest of you people, but it sounds strange to me....LMAO!

I did that yesterday!!!! LOL

That wrench will never be the same.

Hey Shawn....I'm writing that formula down. My kids need to memorize it for future reference. Speaking of kids, how old is this guy/kid? Word of advice to young and old; We have to share the space on this blue marble. Most people would like to get along with each other. We try to do just that. Try hard not to pee on the campfire, it just irritates those that can do you harm or teach you the lesson you so richly deserve.

Originally Posted by cffisher

All our moderators must be out of town

No.

Thread has been neutered.

If you can assist with the HEI grounding issue, great..

HHmmm....April 29th. I'm writing this down on the calendar. I would have never thought I would see the day when Denny was stumped. He has been our back up guy, our go to guy and guru for so many things. I am mortified!....Just jerkin' yer chain buddy! We love ya man......personally, I seriously I don't wish to see this, but alas, I guess we all our patience limit for such events that we've been put through with this particular subject. Thanks again bro... I hope your humor level is still "up there". (please forgive me, my humor level just went off the altas.....LOL)

i miss out again

Here's your chance to jump back in Pat....anyone remember the flame throwers that were designed to shatter store front windows? It was taught to us "Motor Heads" in shop class. Tried it once, got a ticket for excessive noise and went back to try it again. Window broke, we got the heck out of there and really hurt the engine. It was a straight razor mounted at 3 and 1/16 into the square pipe at the tail end of the exhaust pipe. A spark plug with separate coil mounted before it. Seperate aux switch, and it was hard to master how to do it. Big Block Chevelle and enough fuel to get it down the pipe. Boy, was it something to get good at. Dumb kids we were and we had to spend good money to fix the engine. We found 3600 RPM's was about right depending on the glass we were trying to do it with. KIDS, don't try this at home....LOL

look, an HEI distributor grounds thru its base. However, if you cut the juice from the power wire, the engine will die. You might try a relay inseries with the distributor. Wire thru a normally closed contact of the relay, and then you 'fire' the relay to cut the distributor. You'll need a method to generate spark to the exhaust though. You can use a second relay to accomplish this.. just switch the relay through its normally closed contact. The relay will chatter, and you can use its normally open contact to fire the primary side of a coil. Route the secondary to the plug in your exhaust and volia.

Two relays, a coil, and a spark plug = $40.

having to rebuild your engine cause you have washed the cylinders with gas by cutting the spark at WOT just to throw fames ..

priceless.

I guess I missed the colorful language.

Sorry the first ammendment does not exist here.

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

i miss out again

when i posted this i was more thinking of given that guy a good flame job i do not let my irish get out much i like my self just fine when this happens. other not so much

I've never used the ignore button, but I have finally found a good use for it. I think just correcting the post was way too mild, he needs banned.


Don

Since this had to go to a mod, he can forget about any answers from me.