I bought a 95 accord with a jdm h22a vtec motor in it that wouldn't start(no spark). figured the kid didnt know what he was doing and it would be and easy fix. I have replaced the main relay, distributor. that didn't work so I bought a whole different car with a standard tranny thinking I was going to switch it to standard and would just rewire the whole car at the same time. Now that the car is standard and has a whole new wiring harness it still has no spark. theres power going to distributor but nothing coming out. any ideas where to go now

 

Check out these:


https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-prelude-4/car-wont-start-no-spark-3020919/

http://www.preludezone.com/general-t...ggestions.html

if its the Dizzy:
The black wire with the yellow tracer going to the coil should be hot with the key on or in the start position. The yellow wire at the distributor (may be inside the distributor- attached to the ignition module) should also be hot with the key on or cranking. The blue wire to the coil from the ignition module (may also be inside the distributor) should have a pulsed ground signal when the motor is cranked over. If you are missing any of these, the car will not start. If you don't have the ground pulse on the blue wire from the module, then either the module is bad, or one of the 3 pickup sensors are bad

 

Do you know what year the engine is?

 

No idea what yr the motor is out of. The distributor did spark in the donor car that I got the wiring harness out of and I took the entire wiring harness behind the dash fuse boxes relays everything. Was thinking it was a knock sensor but 95 accord don't have them so it would need the signal to spark. I think I'm not a wiring guy

 

The h22 does have a knock sensor... Do you know what ecu you have?

 

Stock accord and the jdm ecu so he said it was the jdm ecu

 

Is recommend looking into the crank sensor

 

Yeah,the crank sensor will do it, just keeps turning and Turning no fire

 

Where would I find the crank sensor would it be behind the timing cover and would the motor require a crank sensor being it's obd1

 

are the grounds good?

 

Yes check all grounds on the motor.. IIRC the distributor will have power if the main ecu ground is not grounded which should be bye the thermostat housing.. This is an obd1 motor and car right??

 

Engine Is grounded and the car is obd1 I think motor is obd2. I'm pretty sure its got a be a motor sensor problem sense the donor car had spark. I just don't know where to go now

 

check the ecu for identification something like P and two letters or number following that


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Can you hear the fuel pump prime when you turn the key on? the stamps on the front of the head will tell what year the motor is. the correct ecu is a p13

 

The ECU ground is not on the thermostat like Civics/Tegs. It's on the intake manifold on the driverside end of it.

How many and where was the grounds when you looked at it?