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PostPosted: March 4, 2017, 12:39 pm 
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End of last season of autocrossing my locost began to miss at throttle between 75% and 100% when the engine was warm to hot. Engine is a Toy 2tg with twin side draft mikunis/ solex carbs. Wire harnes is custom putting full 12v to blaster coil and pertronix in the disty. I changed, plugs, wires, coil and miss is still there. Volt gauge shows high normal at that rpm.

Any suggestions where else to look?


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PostPosted: March 4, 2017, 1:16 pm 
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Location: BC, Canada. eh?
With the mention of heat, and particularly with carbs, vapor lock comes to mind as a likely suspect. Not so common these days, with so many FI systems in use, but it sure happens in carbed engines when engine room heat starts to climb...

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PostPosted: March 4, 2017, 1:25 pm 
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We chased a WOT misfire when the engine was at operating temp on my brother's race car (Austin Mini) that was finally traced to a faulty Pertronix Ignitor distributor insert. Your situation sounds like it could be the same thing. Bill

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PostPosted: March 5, 2017, 1:12 am 
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Come to think of it, ignition coils can suffer from heat issues, too, causing intermittent misfires...

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PostPosted: March 20, 2017, 11:50 pm 
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If it's not popping on decell (lean), I'd go straight to the Ign module since you've already done the coils.

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