AE82 electric dizzy on a AE86 4ac

[Wedged'86]

Ok. what i want is for you's to tell me that i just suck.
i got an AE82 dizzy, put it on my 4ac and found that i just couldn't get it timed. no matter what i did.

Now i'm being told that the electric dizzy and the points one aren't interchangable. so it'll never work.

can you use an electric dizzy from an AE82 on a 4ac in an AE86????

someone who has done this would be handy.

thanks.

[Dylan_ae86]

i had one on mine for a while and i've seen a few others use them. I found that I was able to time it up alright, but it didnt make much of a difference power wise. I ended up putting the original back in after it blew the module

[Wedged'86]

So it should work absoutly fine. and this guy who told me it won't is a douche bag.

why then is it so impossible to time? if i advance it to far it runs like shit and if i retard it too much it backfires out the top of the carb, there's no happy medium... (oh there is a spot where it'll run like shit AND backfire out the top of the carb hahah.)

well if that is the case then i'm glad to know that it's not the dizzy being incompatable.

[Wedged'86]

i ended up rebuilding the points one and using that.

as for why i couldn't time the electric one...... a word to the wise: make sure you know which way the dizzy spins before putting the ignition leads on...........

[Callifo]

Just did one the other day (replaced both the coil and distributor with one from an ae82), went over much quicker than I expected; it actually fired first go

The old one wouldn't hold a steady timing and it was getting worse and worse (I know 4ac's are slow but taking over 20sec to get to 100 :S )