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Hey guys, I did it!! I made and intstalled a remote TFI. I did it a little different than the rest. I gutted a TFI and soldered the three connectors inside to three connectors that led out of the gutted TFI. I then went to the jy and cut about 2 feet of wiring from a TFI harness with the TFI plug still in place. I removed the wires I did not need and kept the three I needed. I rewrapped the wires with the foil from its original casing and wrapped that with electrical tape. I then removed the module and put the dummy one in its place. Plugged it in to the good TFI module that I mounted on a bracket above the coil and against the drivers side shock tower (not alot of room) but fits. I have to assume that it is touching the heat sheild on the hood because its about a inch lower than the shock tower cover. It started right up!! Anyone who knows me here knows that I am no electrical wizard. LOL!! So this is a great accomplishment.

Question- How hot is that heat sink suppose to get, because its sure gets hot. Is it ok to be above the coil and possibly touching the hood heat sheild? It no longer on the engine, but is this a better spot?
Congratulations. I put a copy in the Performance Upgrades forum. I don't know how hot it is suppose to get, but you would want air to flow over the heat sink for cooling.
hey congrats, can you get any pics up? I'd really like to see how it all looks..

Bob
I want to do a remote tfi like you did . But exactly what wires did you cut and remove. Just what does it take??
Quote:Originally posted by turbo86xrseven:
I want to do a remote tfi like you did . But exactly what wires did you cut and remove. Just what does it take??
Here are pics of the Dummy TFI. I used the three wires in the middle and removed the two on the outside. The main reason is they are the three wires that are being solderd and lead out of the dummy TFI Made it simple.

Here is a diagram...
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/b...FI/TFI.jpg
I like mine this way because when I am setting the timing, the timing plug is right next to the shock tower now.
Quote:Originally posted by RDOG:
I like mine this way because when I am setting the timing, the timing plug is right next to the shock tower now.
why not install a switch? you have gone this far why not go all the way.

by the way it looks great!!!!
Nice work! You took the same approach I did by gutting an old TFI to serve as a connector. Hopefully you did better than I did, I made the cable a foot or two longer than it needed to be thinking the longer the better. Now there's slack to deal with :/

My heatsink does get pretty warm to the touch after spirited driving on a hot day. Not burn you hot, but hot. Just think how much hotter the TFI must run when it's essentially bolted on top of the engine block...
What prevents one from from using spade terminals with wires plugged into the PIP and then splicing into the harness where it plugs into the module???
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