I was hoping someone can answer this for me. I do some road racing, at least once a month and everytime I go I manage to have distributor problems, the car begins to bog and then just die. I had to start carriying extra coils and ignitors with me to the track because its almost certain it will die out on me, this last weekend it happend again. I changed the coil and it got me home but, when I looked at the White wire that goes from the coil to ignitor it looked like the tim that goes to the ignitor was kind of burnt, as if it sparked.

Can anyone give some input as to why this happends and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks.

 

for some reason my original distributor had alot of corrosion inside. made my car misfire until i bought a new distributor & the problem went away. you probably have high resistance somewhere.

 

Maybe it's time to change your ignition systems from the OE to aftermarket. I had that similar problem with my coil going out, but my igniter was good when I checked it w/ my Digital meter. So, for now on I have an external ignition coil, Mallory coil w/ the Hyfire box. I also carry an extra coil, just in case...

 

Thanks for the info guys. The distributor I have is practically new, I've had it for less than a year. But I think I am going to run an external coil from now on. Do i have to run the ignition box too? or can i just run the external coil?

 

Burnt terminals is a sign of a poor connection.

I ran into intermittent problems of the engine shutting down when auto-crossing my 94LS, I would swap out the coil and be good to go for a bit and again engine would shut down, swapped out the ICM, [igniter] and would be good again for a bit, I also noticed the terminals were getting hot, [discolored].

I went to an external coil, [MSD Blaster W/MSD cap] the ICM, [" ignition box"] must still be used, what I did was tinned the terminals on the ICM and the terminals that plug into it then once connected soldered the terminals together.
Have never had a problem since.
I am sure the problem was solved because of the soldering and not the external coil as I have done the same an a few other Honda/Acura with the same kind of issues, engine stalling out after car driven hard and it has worked on them also. 94

 

You don't have to run an ignition box, but it is recommended, for better spark control. You could experiment on any brands of ig. boxes and external coils if you want, there's a variety of them our there.