Hey Holy Crap man am I in the same boat as you!
I have the 7530T with a crank trigger and pro billet distributor. I am old school and all this stuff is giving me headaches. I am slowely learning. I downloaded the updated softwarer from the MSD site and try to learn everynight. I don't have a laptop yet. The hand controller is crap compared to the pc readout. My supplied software won't even work. I did manage to get the motor fired up once I corrected the proper bolt pattern for mounting the trigger wheel on the motor. If you don't do that, the pick-up will match up with the magnet either way to the left, or way to the right.
LOL! I set the motor and distributor to TDC, then set the pick-up to the magnet...WRONG!! It took alot of cranking but it still fired-up, but took too much adjustment to get it even near 38*. I shut it off and sat there for a little while trying to think it all through, and then went back and reset the crank trigger wheel, brought the motor back to TDC and pulled it back 38* and dropped in the distributor in at no. 1, like my old magneto days, then reset the pick-up to match-up with the magnet and WHAM it fired right up!
I set the no. of cylinders, start retard, and rev limit values easy enough, though I think I might've programmed too much start retard (20*) because it seems to turn over a few times and wants to start before varoom! it fires up. I thought this MSD would get it to fire instantly. My buddies ten second BBC Nova fires right up at the turn of the key with his 7AL2. I'm scratching my head. Suggestions anyone???
I am going to the track friday and run it for the first time with this set-up, and will lay down a few passes with my 275/60 M/T DR's to baseline before I start messing with the launch retard. It's programmable from 1* over time starting at .050 seconds. Good lord that sounds easy but I'm a fish out of water learning along the way. Can't find anyone running it online, and the intructions are pretty much crap. It's more like a sales brochure to me. Oh yeah.....my brand new timing light doesn't want to work with it, but works great on my friend's Nova.......I'm Lost :roll: