I had my hood popped open with the motor running. I was about to push my ignition wires in the distributor to make sure there nice and snug. Then before i touch it shocked me. I was thinking i had a hole in the wire and thats y it was shocking me. But i change then out with me friends and it still did it. Can somebody tell me whats wrong? The car drives fine. Its a 93 gsr.

 

You have less resistance to ground than the motor. Dont touch them if it hurts!

Seriously...how old are the wires, maybe they are a little thin...

 

there stock wires but my friends are from a 99 gsr, so they cant be that old.
What do you mean by
"You have less resistance to ground than the motor " ?

 

simple rule of electricity.... it will take the path of least resistance to earth (or ground)

 

Could it be that his engine is not grounded properly?

 

Definately a possibility.

Have you had any work lately? There are a couple engine grounds.

One from the valve cover to the front...cant miss it..
One near the passenger side motor mount..

anymore???

Check those...

 

Also one on the tranny.

 

thats the one by the mount

 

I don't get shocked, but my friend almost always gets shocked when he touches that area around the dizzy with the motor running. I think it's normal.

Happend on his CRX, my CRX, my GS-R.

 

whats "the dizzy?"

 

LMFAO!! I think its the distrizzy..

 

probably just need new wires
i use to be able to see little electric sparks coming from my wires
but i changed them and no more sparks
never got shocked tho

 

I always have to wear gloves when I am checking my ign. wires. They always friggin shock me and they are 1000 miles old. I think its just cause they will sometime put out a poor quality product but not that often. Hey, its not so much the shock hurts... just surprised you huh?


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i just went outside and turned on my car and popped the hood and i didnt feel anything!

 

I got shocked one time when i was washing my engine. It was wet and i got too close to the distributor cap. DOH

 

in my auto tech class....we used to have competitions on the cars and see who could hold the most wires the longest....this one crazy motherer held all wires off a ford mustang 5.0 for like 5 minutes and he was getting shocked...it was cool...worked in a chain, if i was touching him and touched someone walking by theyd get shocked by me...lol..... but id be getting shocked too...but always fun to surprise people with a nice shock to the arm

 

keep touching them and you'll stop you heart from beating. YES, YOU WILL.

 

uhhh....theres not enough ampage or voltage to do that in the car.

 

haha

 

hahaha damn that's hilarious! It's actually reasonably safe to hold all the wires in your hands, as long as you're not touching the chassis ground as well... you probably don't want to hold the wires in one hand and touch the chassis with your other hand though. Ouch.

I've shocked myself with 120V AC quite a few times and my heart still beats somewhat regularly... hehehe... One time I stuck my hand into a control panel and completely the 120V AC circuit to ground with my thumb. Boy did that hurt... left a little 1st degree burn and numbness and tingling for a good hour...

 

my friend when he was a jackass (i was too, but i didnt do electrical stuff on my car) was installing some led scanner thing on his car and shocked the **** out of himself like 25 times (he didnt disconnect the battery i dont think) and countless other times shocked himself from his car...and he's still very alive. i think its funny that someone said your heart would stop beating

 

The voltages in the ignition system are much much higher than the 12V source. (Fairly low current, but high voltage.) On average the voltage to the plugs is from 40 to 100 thousand volts!

 

Ok...Enough!