You lost me at trigger . It is an awesome thing have smart fellers like you guys around though.

Joel

 

trigger coil, pick up coil, pulser coil it has a bunch of names depending who you talk to

 

With the poor grounding issue, did you ever hold the sparkplug near the cylinder and verify spark? If so, would it shock you? I have tried this and got shocked, but haven't found any damaged wiring. I have never been shocked before checking the spark plug like this.

 

You don't hold the spark plug "near" the cylinder head. You must have it connected/pushed/jammed up against the cylinder head. The spark is trying to return to ground. If the threads of the spark plug are away from engine ground, and you are holding on to it, it will try to get to ground through you. Yeah, you will get shocked. At the spark plug end of things it is really low current. It stings, but isn't dangerous (unless it makes you jump and insert yourself into something dangerous). I'm more careful with the primary side where the voltage can be 300 volts (at speed) and has substantial (and dangerous) current available.

 

the bike fired very brightly but like i said it retarded by like 30 degrees. and yes it would shock you .lol. i checked the retardation with a timing light. it had me bumfuzzled for a little while