I just replaced my distributor cap and my car won't start anymore. It cranks, but the engine just doesn't turn over. Everything looks the same. Plug wire orders and everything. All the wires to my external coil is unchanged (MSD setup). One thing I forgot to do is disconnect the battery before working on the project, but it doesn't seem like I shorted anything. I also tried replacing it with my old cap, and it still doesn't work. Apparently I've done something that I wasn't aware of that fowled thing up.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

check all your fuses - maybe something shorted out?

is the little contact that sits on the center of the rotor still in the cap?

 

Does it try to fire at all?
Have you checked for a spark?
What year / model Accord?

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what kind of distrubitor is it stock or msd?

 

I bet the power to the coil is disconntected or something.

 

Check to see if it has spark first of all. Did you replace the rotor as well?

 

double and tripple check the plug wire orders.

 

Plug orders are right, even compared it to a digital photo before the project just to be sure. I'm using a MSD pro-cap, but the cap doesn't seem to be the problem since I tried reusing my old modified stock one too and the problem still persists. Distributor itself is stock, just modified several years back to accomodate a MSD ignition amplifier and external blaster coil.

The rotor is okay, contact is still there and everything and it was barely replaced a week prior.

 

...and yet, you still won't answer the questions:

Does it try to fire at all?
Have you checked for a spark?
What year / model Accord?

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again