i ended up hacking up the corvette loom and re-pinning to suit the VR v8 man diagram, using a 3082 computer, have my own relays powering it up, the injectors have power but the coil wiring i didn't change as all the pins (B5, D4, D5, B3) all lined up, sooo i must have cut the extra power feed to the coil or i'm missing abit of the loom, all the corvette diagrams i have have no mention of a power feed to the coil (or coil or that matter, as seen below)
hmm i thought it may be the case, but hoped that setting it to 8 cyclinder mode would sort that, will have to get it talking to the computer to change that