3.5 v8 lucas 35 de8 wiring plz help

rousecapri · Post by **rousecapri** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:18 pm

have a 3.5 v8 with 390 holley fitted
running points dizzy at min
i have the lucas 35 dizzy with the small flat electric box that goes with it,what i would like to know is how to wire it up please.

ChrisJC · Post by **ChrisJC** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:00 pm

The box will be a ballast resistor.

Do some searching on this forum, as the same question has been answered a few times before.

Chris.

Pocket rocket · Post by **Pocket rocket** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:14 pm

Have alook here http://www.v8forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:53 am

rousecapri wrote:have a 3.5 v8 with 390 holley fitted
running points dizzy at min
i have the lucas 35 dizzy with the small flat electric box that goes with it,what i would like to know is how to wire it up please.

Do you mean the little black box that is mounted on the body of the dizzy in which case it's the amp and the dizzy will be a 35DLM8 which requires a Lucas DLB198 coil or equivalent.

If it is the amp your describing does it have 2 or 3 terminals? Nomally, from memory only two connections are required from the coil + and - but will have to check which way round thwey go as a long time sice I wired mine up.

Kevin.

rousecapri · Post by **rousecapri** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:51 pm

its the early type i have with the silly ballast resistor
have junked the resistor and wired the dizzy with 12v and removed the ballast resistor from the capri.I had a 12v coil kicking about wired this in and she started first time,sounded much better than when running the old points dizzy
thanks for all your help

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