Barn Find IROC-Z

[Komet]

Clickbait title. The barn is my shop and I put the car there three months ago. But! It does have:
-Inauthentic "barn dust" which was actually just a 200 mile road trip in the pouring rain
-Oxidized everything from being stored outside for two years
-Non-running condition
-Bonus electrical issues

So I sort of barn-found myself. Or at least barn-finding myself needing to get my car running again.

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Yeah I fender cover care about this one. Anyway, I've got no spark at the plugs, and no spark coming out of the coil. I consulted the holy tome:

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Failing Step 2 and Step 3. Unless I'm really not hitting the contacts in there, and it feels like I am, my lightning can has become a lightning can't.

Now I have to roll the dice on the 'what coil is good' game, and/or just buy new Davis Unified Ignition everything and not tell the wife. Will update irregularly as I make progress.

 

[DonYukon]

Sorry to be off topic but since I got click baited .... Lmao that was a good one and still technically a barn find to us.

 

[termite]

Unless I'm really not hitting the contacts in there

Slide a paperclip or piece of shim stock down into the contact?
Or short lead with two alligator clips, one on the probe, one on paperclip/shim into contact.

 

[Supercharged111]

Just get a stock AC Delco coil. It's what I race with on the Camaro. Bone stock everything, I promise I beat that car harder than you will this one.

 

[DerekTheGreat]

Shame about the click-bait title, but looks to be a nice car.

X2 on the stock coil. If you have one in your parts stash, try that or temporarily pluck one from another vehicle to test.

 

[Komet]

Jammed some wires into the coil and tested it again, it's not the problem. I don't know what it is yet, but I think I know what it is.

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Digicals.

I didn't find this car in a barn. I found it outside in the woods, where it sat for 11 years until the corrosion got to it and the feller didn't know how to bring it back anymore.

I should also mention I've got no blinkers, and no instrument cluster. When I give the fusebox the right kung-fu grip, I can briefly get the gauges to power and I can hear the subtle whir of the ecm power on. But it doesn't last. So I'm pretty sure the problem I sidestepped three years ago by just letting the fusebox hang and do its thing isn't working out for me anymore.

So I did the right thing and absolutely drenched the fusebox with QD Electrical Cleaner after removing the battery.

Hey it worked last time.