Msd Shift Light Wiring

To program it for use on other engines cut the correct wire loop s as shown in figure 1.

Msd shift light wiring. The msd digital shift light kit kit comes complete with the shift light and a gmr pickup for easy installation. Connect the black wire from the shift light to the black wire in the number four slot of the switch. The gmr pickup attaches to a current carrying wire without any splicing or cutting and turns the information into a 12 volt rpm signal that can be read by the shift light. Figure 1 cylinder select of the shift light.

Seal the cut wire ends with the sup plied heat shrink sleeves. Figure 1 cylinder select of the shift light. This is a 12v switched source. The terminal strip on the left side of the box is responsible for the power leads and the coil wires.

With the addition of an rpm activated switch you can use the two step to activate a shift light at different rpm the module selectors must be used with an msd soft touch rev control or a timing controller with a high speed retard module. To program it for use on other engines cut the correct wire loop s as shown in figure 1. Seal the cut wire ends with the supplied heat shrink sleeves. No rpm or retard modules are supplied.

Msd was the first company to develop and offer the multiple sparking capacitive discharge ignition for engines. The msd shift light is 4 5 l x 3 5 h with a 1 5 diameter lens. When 12 volts are applied the burnout rev limit is active. Connect the green wire from the msd shift light to the purple orange wire in the third slot of the switch.

No rpm modules are supplied. Yellow 1 shift light shift light output wire. Lt blue 4 burn out burnout rev limit. The line of msd 6 series ignitions are the most popular aftermarket ignitions in the world due to our race proven performance on the track and our reliability on the street.

The shift light will work on 2 4 6 or 8 cylinder engines and will plug directly into the tach output on msd 6 sci 7 8 and 10 series ignitions or can be connected to the negative coil terminal when used with points or inductive type ignitions. Page 3 installation instructions figure 1 wiring the primary side of the ignition to points or magnetic pickup. The msd shift light is programmed for operation on 8 cylinder engines.