{"id":3611,"date":"2013-07-21T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2013-07-21T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:25:43","slug":"replacing-a-toyota-20r-igniter-with-msd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/replacing-a-toyota-20r-igniter-with-msd\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing a Toyota 20R igniter with MSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toyota 20R igniter is getting harder and harder to come by. The MSD is an easy swap.<\/p>\n<p>I connected the big red wire to the battery lead, The small red wire I spliced to the wire leading to the resistor on the coil. The black wire I put on the bolt holding the igniter bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The white wire I connected to the terminal on the distributor. \u00a0I removed the original wires from the coil and used the supplied spade connector adapters on the terminals. I then connected the orange and black wires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tach wire had a bullet connector in the wire from the igniter that also went to the negative coil terminal. I connected the gray wire to it. \u00a0No adapter was needed. I removed the igniter and used wire ties to secure the MSD box to the old mount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It fired up first time and idles much smoother than withe stock igniter. \u00a0The stock igniter can be returned easily as I did not modify any of the stock wiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toyota 20R igniter is getting harder and harder to come by. The MSD is an easy swap. I connected the big red wire to the battery lead, The small red wire I spliced to the wire leading to the resistor on the coil. The black wire I put on the bolt holding the igniter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/replacing-a-toyota-20r-igniter-with-msd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Replacing a Toyota 20R igniter with MSD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[210,231],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}