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205 GTI Carb Conversion Ignition Wiring help

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I am building a track car from a N reg 205 auto. Most of the car has gone in the bin and i am running a 1.6GTI on Carbs. Because the wiring is so different on the GTI engine (wing mounted coil dizzy etc) i have wired everything up as per this sketch with a poer feed from a switch via a relay to the connector in the red box but still not getting a spark does anyone have any idea how to get it to fire up. 

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andy0075

The drawing is correct.

 

What Ignition Module and what Distributor are you using?

I made the same conversion many years ago with a Bosch 237 009 612 Distributor (non CAT GTI 1.9)

 

Maybe one of your components is faulty?

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GGS

Not sure on the make, but the dizzy, coil and amplifier were removed from a working car. My dizzy has the clip on cap tho and I don't have a rubber pipe going to the dizzy as your pic. The coil did warm up tho when the ignition switch was turned on. I also tried a spark plug directly to the ht lead from the coil but nothing. The battery was reading 12v and ghe coil positive was reading 10.8v could that be an issue? 

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Richie-Van-GTi

Sounds like the coil is faulty or you have a wire gone bad.

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GGS

Just tried again and the coil is getting absolutely roasting. 

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andy0075

if your coil gets warm when you switch on +12V then something is not ok.

Maybe the ignition module or the coil.

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