Showing posts with label Spitfire Electronic ignition part 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spitfire Electronic ignition part 5. Show all posts

Monday, 16 March 2009

Spitfire Electronic ignition part 5

The ignition unit is now finished and working. I'll have to use the car a bit to see if it;s reliable. The finished picture is shown below. I will add a picture in the car soon.


There were a few teething troubles which were caused by my lack of ability more than anything else. I fried a total of 3 transistors, 1 diode and 3 resistors. Oh and gave myself a 300v shock bonus !

The other thing i noticed was a poor spark on the conventional points system. One new 12 volt Bosch blue coil helped no end. Should have done that sooner. what an improvement !

I still have a few tests to run, like shorting out part of the PCB circuit and seeing if the 300V rail drops when the spark output is at 1000 sparks per second. Now a thousand sparks a second is something to see and hear i'll try and post a clip at some point.

Another job is to reset the ignition timing as it probably a little out, a job for tomorrow.

However my main concern is reliability, to this end i'll keep the old coil and ignition module in the car for a while.

Driving
Oh my god new coil + new Ignition module what an improvement. Better idle, less choke. revs quicker when you blip the throttle and no hesitation either. BHP / Torque has also been improved especially from 3000 RPM onwards. I used to struggle to get to 70MPH but now it get there easily. It make the spitfire an altogether better experience. If it lasts i think i'll call this one job done.

Or will i there is a option to increase the output from 45mJ of energy per spark to 110mJ per spark. Now i probably don't need it but curiosity might get the better of me. I would have to rewind the transformer add another zenner diode and 1uf capacitor. that would give me 375volts and double the stored energy. all this equals bigger spark.