spluttering

hi all

the engine swap from a w124 into my 230 ges. have put in a duplex-chained 230te engine, needed to use all orig g wagen ignition system induction/exhaust system etc.

it starts, runs and drives, but sputters under load, feels like a HT fault to me. as i hadthe parts anyway, its had a new dizzy cap, rotor arm, leads...

i also tried it with the fuel metering head off the 230te, interestingly it hardly wanted to run..., wouldnt tick over and kept stalling.

timng set statically them dynamically at 8 deg btdc vacuum applied

a good trick i learnt is check it out in the dark, in my case there is a clear sign of arcing down in the plug receses fron the leads to the head - but i have no idea if that is the cause of it not running well, but equally i have never seen thos before so dont know how/why it happens, or how to solve it......

the only other things of note are that i have no idea theat the inductio gear is good as it never ran for me, same goes for the coil, the dizzy i think was a spare one from a member (cheers chris). the reason the engine was swapped was cos the auxiliary (dizzy drive) shaft was cog-less (and therefore nice bits of metal had to be somewhere inside......)

anyone got any bright ideas? cheers