u said it starts using a friends dist but not yours? does it run perfect (more or less) with your friends dist or still run like ***?

 

Only ran it for a second with my buddies, the idle was high...but he's gone for a week now so i can't use his to test again....If the ignitor was gone, would i still have spark?

 

no... I would double check your timing.

 

We've triple checked the timing, cam gears are lined up perfectly, all spark plugs are firing...wires are good...Removed the rotor cap and made sure it was pointing down and towards the firewall when at TDC...I really don't know what else to do...What else could be wrong with the distributor?? the coil maybe?? i thought if the coil was gone i wouldn't have spark? I just want to get this ------- thing on the road!!! Is there any other wiring i may have missed or something I'm using the SI harness with the b18, no re-pinning necessary is there??

 

a bad coil might still give u a spark. Just not strong enough to light the mixture. Find a known good dist and try. ALso... make sure the plug wires are on the right posts on the dist cap.. could be your problem, 2 of them backwards so it half starts until u flood it??

 

Do u know if the internals of a Zc dist will work?? I've got a good ZC dist at home, can i just swap everything over?

 

TTT

 

well, ,jeff said the b16 dist worked because its an obd0 dist, so im assuming under that statement that the zc dist should work for the same reason, as long as it bolts up.

 

But the firing order is different isn't it? Would that make a difference?

 

i dont think that would make a difference. the firing order is determined by the block and ecu. Just hook up the dizzy so a plug wire goes to each cyl as it fires.