Blk00EJ8

So I've fallen victim to yet another bad distributor... this time on my GSR swap. Basically, the car went from running beautifully to not even starting all of a sudden. I had the car towed home and took a look.

The distributor cap has hairline cracks in it... the contacts on the inside have a turquoise build-up on them (copper), and it basically doesn't look very well sealed from the elements. Ok, so for all intensive purposes, I repaired one of the contacts that connects to the coil because it basically fell off when I touched it. After doing so, the car actually started, though it was idling rough. I was thinking, alright, sounds about right. Bad electrical contacts.

So I order a replacement cap, rotor, ignition coil, and plug wires just for maintenance sake. Installed them today... car still doesn't start. The starter's turning the engine over, I have good fuel pressure with working injectors, and all my grounds are GOOD so please don't suggest those.

My question is such: is it worth attempting to replace the igniter as well or should I just pick up a new distributor from, say, distributor king? I could just keep the above parts as spares. $175 for new OEM igniter or $300 for the entire distributor. I'm actually leaning away from the igniter only because that may not necessarily be the problem.

eye.ha8.u

I ran into dizzy bad luck about a year ago when I had my dizzy go bad on my b16, got one off a lucky b16 find in a junk yard, worked great for a few days then took a **** on me. So I went to dizzy king and spent the $300 dollars and was fine after that. I knew the dizzy was fucked up because I took it apart. If you want peace of mind that the thing is going to work, buy the dizzy and call it a day.

Blk00EJ8

Ok, got a new dizzy from distributor king, installed it, verified a number of things. Now I'm looking for suggestions because I still can't get the engine to fire. Here's what I'm dealing with:

Spark plugs are fine, still gapped at 0.044" and show only signs of normal use.

New plug wires, just as routine maintenance.

The starter solenoid is energizing because if I crank it while in 1st, the car rolls forward.

Getting fuel for sure, primed 45 PSI at the filter and some fuel on the plugs after I crank.

The dizzy is NOT 180* out of phase. I set cyl 1 to TDC and verified the rotor is pointing at plug wire 1.

Now the engine turns over, just doesn't fire. I don't think it's sparking. I even tried to jump start, but no luck.

EDIT: Oh yea, my valve cover ground for the plugs is attached and fine.

Blk00EJ8

Hmm, got it to start...

Now time to adjust the timing. All I did was crank it at 100% throttle.