Hi there Michigan man.

Yep you have to have a CPS signal first or nothing works electronically with the fuel management system.

I responded to your post like 3 months ago and it was just after that the Brickboard site has been having fits in a sense of closing up shop! We as a group do not know why or if the web site is going to continue to survive.
I pulled my Sunday driver subscription after about six years and I think I have been on here since 2008.

I’m shocked that it sent me an email from your recent posting.

You say you don’t have a AMM but a MAP sensor but they are one and the same thing as both measure air volume. One is directly with air temperature as it passes where the other measures the lack of volume as a partial vacuum calculation through physics. Actually both are and have too be physics.

I went back and looked into the thread where you wrote about the car.
I now wonder if the car even ran before you got but the information about the speedometer mileage has me lost.
Having the timing and distributor issues was another one that a spin in gather information to begin a diagnosis.
I now wonder if the flywheel wasn’t off the engine at some time.
Possibly put back on wrong in relation to number one cylinder.
After that person realizes what they had done they turned to lopping the distributor around in 180 or 90 degree backwards to make up for it?
Otherwise it wouldn’t have ever run.

I don’t think you should play around with any make-shift ECU until you get the basics out of the way, so then, it will run decently.
Your phrasing about the engine. “engine is fresh by any means” has me thinking it was rebuilt or is of low mileage. Was it the reason for you getting it?

Is this your first Volvo?

“I believe I am approaching a first start soon, but the biggest issue during this all has been trying to get a crank signal.” This is my closing line, that maybe should have been my opening line, but then I’m confused and it’s been awhile since I have been on here.

Phil