i have just swaped a 302 ino my maverick and i can not figure out how to wire up the ignition module. I has a blue grommet, if anybody knows what i am talking about. There are two plugs that come out of it. One plug connects to the distributer. The other plug has a red and white wire. I do not know where they go. Is red power and white ground, are they both ground or power, could anybody explain to me how to easily hook it up. Also what is the easiest way to wire the coil. This is the only thing that is stopping me from cruising the mav.
I've always spliced both wires together and hooked them to a full switched 12 volts. In actuallity, one is for start and the other for run. But I've been running them my way for many years without any problems.
Here is how I hooked mine up - From the 4 wire bundle - 3 of the four harness into the distributor. The 1 green wire I hooked to the negative side of the coil. From the two wire bundle I ran the white wire to the + side of my coil where it gets power. The red wire I just capped off. Like Mavaholic said, the red wire is supposed to go to the "start" or key pole on the starter solenoid to get 12V when key is switched to starter. It takes the start signal and retards the ignition lead by 2 degrees to make starting easier. I've also heard of people running the red wire to a activation switch on a "sneaky pete " 50 HP nitrous system. I think if you run 12 V to both red and white wires all the time you are effectively disarming the starting retard function by retarding the spark all the time. It works either way. Cleaver
