<VV> Electronic distributor kill switch

[kevin nash]

     Another approach might be to supply power to the ignition through a relay, then the engine compartment kill switch would break the relay trigger to kill the engine. Might not be a bad way to go if you have a lot of extra electrical stuff powered up (safeguard, electric fuel pump, other computers...) that could be fed off of that relay when the engine is running. Before
I converted all the way over to EFI, I was running the distributor less ignition with the stock carb, and ended up powering the 
coil pack, safeguard, ignition portion of the EFI off of a single 40 amp 4 pin automotive relay and triggered the relay through the
existing stock coil feed wire- it triggered the relay any time the key switch was "on". It worked slick for years. I didn't think to 
put a auxiliary kill switch in the engine compartment at the time -it sure would have been a simple thing to add though, and
is a really fine idea!!
Kevin Nash
63 Turbo EFI Daily driver

> ? From: "sethracer at aol.com [fastvair]" <fastvair at yahoogroups.com>
>  To: fastvair at yahoogroups.com 
>  Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 10:36 PM
>  Subject: [fastvair] Electronic distributor kill switch
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> ? In years past, I installed a small chassis box on the engine "firewall" with a toggle switch to power the ignition and a push button to crank the starter. It worked fine - I would not recommend this on a street car - It would make the car easy to steal! But for the race car, It made it easy to start and run the car - and turn it off -?from the engine compartment. Great for troubleshooting -somehow handy for a race car! For a street car and a powered distributor, you could interrupt the power connection to the distributor. On this distributor, that is the red wire connected to the positive (+) pole on the coil. As supplied, I install (crimped and soldered) a ring terminal on the wire end to insure retention. But you could easily replace that with a push-on spade-lug terminal pair. You could even use a type 56 GM terminal and single-cavity connector and make it look almost stock. Just yank it off to un-power the distributor, while leaving the ground and?coil control circuit a
>  lone. Note that I cannot say for sure that pulling all three connectors at once?is what killed that?module. At least the guy fessed-up to having done it, and a little while later a failure. - Seth Emerson?In a message dated 8/3/2015 8:30:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fastvair at yahoogroups.com writes:
> That prompts a thought - it would be handy to have a kill button or switch in the engine compartment - just because.
> 
> For a breaker point system, it could be a button that opens the lead from the coil to the breaker points. For that matter, you could even ground it, for the period of time it takes to kill the motor.
> 
> If someone wants to put a kill button on a car with the electronic distributor, what would be an easy/safe/reliable way to do it?