I 1998 Prelude SH started up this moring to back and and wash, it died and will not start back up, we changed the plugs, checked for spark, compression, air and it will not start. fuel pressure gauge is rreading 43psi, is that to high?

these are the mods that I have
AEM fuel rail
B&M fuel pressure regulater
intake
JG pro stock head
DC header
AEM cam gears
AEM over drive and under drive pulleys
no cat
HKS super drager exaust

 

That fuel pressure is fine, why don't you do a compression test and check your timing?

 

you get any sort of click or sound when you turn the key?

 

Hehe could it be the battery ?

cuz thats my problem last time, thought it was my spark and all that...

same car too

 

I am his friend that was trying to help him, its not the Battery, 1 its an Optima 2 we thought that too and tried to jump it, we also tried to push it and pop the clutch.

no need to do a compression test because it does turn over but never fires off, and you can here it has compression, (even with a loss in compressoin it should still run?) we took the plugs out(5 months old) and they were black as hell, we put new ones in it and still nothing, but after 4 trys we took one of the plugs out and it was covered in fuel!

so we know that it is flooding the engine but why would it just do this out of no were?

 

so your not getting spark.........
check the ignition coil and the distributor

 

yes we are getting spark

 

if u were getting spark wouldn't it be burning the fuel??????

 

Thats what I would think, we took the plug wire out and the plug out its self and put it back in the wire and turned it over and we saw the spark on each one, so we know that the plugs are good (because they're new) and the wires are good because the deleiver the spark to the plug, so If its getting enough? I don't know but there is spark, could the igntion coil have gone bad and not deleiver enough spark to the plugs?

 

Sounds like distributor problem to me.