Help with broken dizzy.
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Help with broken dizzy.
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Did an OBD2B to OBD1 conversion and during the process, did the Vtec Pressure Switch bypass hack since JDM engines don't have a VTP and it would give a CEL or not enable VTEC. Connected A4 and D6 together by referring to this guide (http://www.phearable.net/tech/wiring/vtpsbypass.gif) on my harness converter.
This seems to have done something bad and killed my distributor. The car cranked a couple of times with the CEL on and limp mode. When I connected the Ostrich which had a properly configured basemap from ectune, the car sort of cranked for half a second and then died. Checked for spark which wasn't there. So decided to check a few things...
The relays were fine, so then checked a stock OBD2B ecu, again no go. Finally, putting an identical distributor cranked the car properly and it ran nicely. So now I have a ****ed distributor.
I'm not much of a car guy, but I opened up the distributor and checked out a few things. The rotor seems fine and I can't see any real damage on the ignition coil either. I will be trying another ign. coil soon.
For now, I'm looking for a new dizzy and I'm clueless on which one I should buy.
The engine (as sold in our country) is a combination of D15B bottom end and a D16 VTEC head (Y8 or Z6) with a D16Y7 intake manifold. The dizzy connector is obviously OBD2B type since that's what the car came with. Any suggestions on which dizzy I should buy?
And any suggestions on how I can go about fixing my busted dizzy and make sure this doesn't happen again? Thanks in advance!
Did an OBD2B to OBD1 conversion and during the process, did the Vtec Pressure Switch bypass hack since JDM engines don't have a VTP and it would give a CEL or not enable VTEC. Connected A4 and D6 together by referring to this guide (http://www.phearable.net/tech/wiring/vtpsbypass.gif) on my harness converter.
This seems to have done something bad and killed my distributor. The car cranked a couple of times with the CEL on and limp mode. When I connected the Ostrich which had a properly configured basemap from ectune, the car sort of cranked for half a second and then died. Checked for spark which wasn't there. So decided to check a few things...
The relays were fine, so then checked a stock OBD2B ecu, again no go. Finally, putting an identical distributor cranked the car properly and it ran nicely. So now I have a ****ed distributor.
I'm not much of a car guy, but I opened up the distributor and checked out a few things. The rotor seems fine and I can't see any real damage on the ignition coil either. I will be trying another ign. coil soon.
For now, I'm looking for a new dizzy and I'm clueless on which one I should buy.
The engine (as sold in our country) is a combination of D15B bottom end and a D16 VTEC head (Y8 or Z6) with a D16Y7 intake manifold. The dizzy connector is obviously OBD2B type since that's what the car came with. Any suggestions on which dizzy I should buy?
And any suggestions on how I can go about fixing my busted dizzy and make sure this doesn't happen again? Thanks in advance!
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