Hi, iam new to the forum and i have a 2007 gio 200 and i want to get a CDI box for it, but iam not sure of the plugs.. seems to be a bunch of different ones.. just looking to get one on ebay.
can someone show me witch one to get or just a pic of the plug i need that would be great.!!
thanks
VJ

 

smart money is to just go on the gio web site and get the high performance one. I bought one for my jet and it worked great. if the plug is different just hard wire it. make sure you get one with the correct number of wires. Seth 03

 

well i know how to use my money smart but why spend an extra 40$ when i could get a 10$ one on ebay that does the same thing... i just want to know are all the boxes the same if they have the same number of wires? if so then i will hard wire one in for half the cost.

 

Well Mr. Smart Money you posted here looking for help and I tried to help. Your attitude is not appreciated. have fun . hope you get the answer you are looking for

 

well u gave me an obvious answer...go to the web site.. i know that, i said i wanted to get one off ebay and was looking for a pic of the plug i needed. thats all i was asking..

 

bougtht one of the website worked and fit great. bought one of ebay didn't work, didn't fit,not at all what they said it was now just sits in a tool box. money well spent for the one that I know is right.money and time wasted for junk not money well spent. just my 3 cents.Seth 03

 

Hi VJ,

I'm a little confused and have some questions:

1) I'm puzzled about why you can't look at your existing CDI to see what the connectors are. That seems to me to be the most error proof method. Is the CDI missing? Is the harness connector missing? There must be more to the story here...

2) Are you looking for a "performance" CDI, or just a stock replacement CDI?

3) If you want just a stock replacement CDI, why are you replacing it? Are you having trouble with spark? Are you sure it is the CDI? Before spending hard earned money on a new CDI, maybe an inexpensive meter is a better investment so that the problem can be narrowed down further.

Besides the connector arrangement, CDI's can be powered from an AC high voltage winding on the stator, or DC off the battery. AC powered CDI's are more common overall, but it is becoming more and more common these days to find DC powered CDI's. A 2007 quad is probably AC powered, but I'm not sure. It is easy to find out with a few simple measurements with a meter.

5 pin CDI's are always AC powered. 4 pin CDI's are always DC powered. 6 pin CDI's (two connectors - one four pin and one 2 pin) can be either AC or DC, and they look identical. You have to measure to get it right, if you plug an AC CDI into a DC wired quad there will be fireworks.

I've bought several stock CDI's off eBay. They all worked fine. But I religiously check feedback ratings and don't do any business with a vendor who isn't top notch, no matter how cheap the price is.

Seth 03 is a good guy. I remember I posted once that you couldn't get CDI's with pigtail leads. Seth 03 found some and posted the link. I learned a little from him that day. We're all here to help one another, but sometimes innocent words get a little misconstrued and it escalates from there. I'm sure neither of you meant for the conversation to go the way it did.

Let's get your quad fixed....

Lynn

 

well i thought everything was broken off and there was no cdi in the bike, but i found all the wires tied up under the gas tank so i ordered one off ebay last night. the bike had the rectangle plug ins 4-2 pins so i purchaced the race cdi for 15.00 shipped. iam hoping that makes a difference.

 

$15.00 isn't a big risk. It's worth a try. Just keep in mind that 6 pin CDI's can be AC powered or DC powered. They are not compatible. Did your auction specify what your new CDI requires for power? Do you know how your quad is wired? It is easy to tell how your quad is wired:

Unplug the CDI (since yours is missing you can obviously skip this step). Turn on the ignition and measure the DC voltage on the pin labeled 'AC Ignition Power' in the picture below to ground. If you read 12 volts then your CDI is DC powered.

If you read zero volts, then switch the meter over to AC volts on the 100 volt scale (or so). Measure the AC voltage on the same pin to ground while cranking the starter. If you measure 40-80 volts AC then you CDI is AC powered.

If you measure neither of the above two conditions then we need to delve in further. Quads that start off missing major components have a tendency to be basket cases. But this is a good starting point.

 

I ordered the Performance CDI from GIO's website, I was ordering other things also, but through the auctions, I won the CDI box for $2, I was already paying shipping on a carb. Got another one for the other 200CC GIO we have, I think I got that one for $5, and it shipped with the shocks and exhaust I ordered.