i think my distributor is bad?

ok this happened twice now, 1st time was on the freeway going 80 and this spark shot out my exhaust. so my car stalled and coasted on the freeway and pulled off the road, car turns over and over, at that time i didnt know what just happen, but later in time figured it was a bad distributor, but i 1st replace and rotor/cap, spark plugs/wires, that didnt work. so i installed a new dizzy into my ls/vtec and replaced it with the same one, TD-84U 96-01 GSR dizzy. installed it and she fired right up and fixed the timing at the same time. ran good for the next 11 months of driving.

today on the freeway cruising 60mph to work normal driving she stalled on the freeway, scary at the time because of heavy rush hour was near by, pulled off the road, tried starting her up turns over and over. Baxter auto parts was nearby. so somehow i manage to start the car and it was a rough start and idle, knew i had blew a rotor/cap. once i got there i checked it out and uninstall the rotor/cap and there was a white spark mark in the cap, so bought new rotor/cap figure that was the problem installed it and still turns over and over.

sorry for the long story, so my question is what wrong with my dizzy?

at this time it has a warranty from distributor king either to fix or replace the dizzy i bought from them.

setup in my ek:
b16a2 si head, with s2s2 camshafts, ss valves and titan springs
b18b1 block stock internal
b16a2 tranny
td84u distributor (gsr)
ngk spark plugs/wires
p72 ecu

let me know whats wrong, thank you!


Modified by zerogravitycrx at 9:50 AM 5/5/2007

 

Probably the dizzy coil. Replace the dizzy itself.

 

I had the same problem. Died out on the freeway. It was the ignition coil.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by M1984Y &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I had the same problem. Died out on the freeway. It was the ignition coil. </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EGJason &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Probably the dizzy coil. Replace the dizzy itself.</TD></TR></TABLE>

so why would the ignition coil go out like that? this happen twice and at different driving condition, one time from hauling *** and like yesterday normal cruising.

 

ttt

 

any help why would the ignition coil go out like that?

 

It's common for the distributor coil to just burn up on D-Series.

 

should i buy the msd coil setup? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem would this help or just put out better performance?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EGJason &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Probably the dizzy coil. Replace the dizzy itself.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Why would you replace the complete distributor if just the coil was bad? That's burning almost $100.

Typicall either the coil or the ICM go out. Check for interupted ground at the coil. If it is interrupted then replace the coil. If its not, replace the ICM. Pretty simple diagnostic that may save you a bunch of money.

 

so.... later in time..... should have checked before..... spark plugs, well there's my problem in cyl#2 somehow the spark plug got mashed..... but how?

installed new plugs, car turns over once and poof. still what's the problem, i dont know, could it be the internal in the block may bad?

here is the nasty picture!





Modified by zerogravitycrx at 10:26 PM 5/4/2007

 

cant see the pix

 

omg, ouch.. hows the car now?

 

installed new plugs, car turns over once and poof.

the plug that is damaged was hard to get out and installed all four new plugs. In cyl#2 spark plug was kinda hard to screw in, i may have damaged the b16 head, plugging the spark wire #2 into cyl#2 has a small gap, will not plug all the way in!

 

you need to pull the head and inspect the block for more damage

 

When the plug looks like that, its time to pull the head and see what happened.

 

I had the same problem with my car, ended up being the ignition coil, but my plugs didnt look anything like that when i pulled them.

 

looks baaaad bro #2piston is goin to be demolished!! probably had a rod come apart same exact thing happened to my ctr motor when i was just cruzin at 60 mph probably ruined the head too

 

yeah i figure, more i inspect it, more the worse case i found is in cyl#2 is demolished<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ctrcya &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">looks baaaad bro #2piston is goin to be demolished!! probably had a rod come apart same exact thing happened to my ctr motor when i was just cruzin at 60 mph probably ruined the head too </TD></TR></TABLE>


yeah i figured, more i inspect it, more the worse case, i found is in cyl#2 piston is demolished, toasted. i just got take off the head and look into it hopefully head is still good just hopefully, probably the rods fault, i can see that happening!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ctrcya &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">looks baaaad bro #2piston is goin to be demolished!! probably had a rod come apart same exact thing happened to my ctr motor when i was just cruzin at 60 mph probably ruined the head too </TD></TR></TABLE>

did it also ruined your head?

anybody else had this problem?

 

had a friend with the same problem he #2 piston had spark plug pieces melted to it.take your head apart cause more is goin on the what u see.won't know how bad it is till u take the head apart