Car will not start after swap.

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turbolsvt

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Here is my problem, my car will no start after i did a swap. The car is not getting spark and fuel. The car is turning over and the injector clips are getting 12v power but not noiding. The ecu is powering up and i am getting power to the coil. I have swap out the coil, bought a new distributor(which came with a ignitor) and swapped out the ecu for a stock p28 (the other p28 has hondata s300) with no luck of getting spark and getting the injector to noid. . The car is for the most part a full race car so the heater motor, windshield wiper motors and heater controlls have been removed and i have done a mild wire tuck (the only wires i cut was to the headlights which still work) and the battery has been relocated o the back of the car.

Does this sound like a ground problem? Is there any other major grounding points on or in the car besides the thermastat housing ground? I am open for any ideas!
 
it could be that your rotor is not pointing to piston number one that usually happens if you changed out the ditributer make sure the rotor is pointing to piston one well the wire that goes to piston one you probably have it 180 over
 
Are you getting fuel pressure? Sounds like the main relay could have gone bad. It basically acts as the fuse for your fuel pump.
 
Most important ground(at least for the ECU/sensors) is the thermostat ground. Make sure that's good too.

I the checked the thermostat ground a ohm meter and its good. I alsp checked the ground that goes into ecu and it has a good ground. I checked the ignition power wire comming from the ecu and its getting 14v. This is weird as hell!
 
I the checked the thermostat ground a ohm meter and its good. I alsp checked the ground that goes into ecu and it has a good ground. I checked the ignition power wire comming from the ecu and its getting 14v. This is weird as hell!

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I checked the thermostat ground with a ohm meter and its good. I also checked the ground that goes into ecu and it has a good ground. I checked the ignition power wire comming from the ecu and its getting 14v. This is weird as hell!
 
i would check your main relay and if thats is still good check all the sensors in the dizzy they should pulse just slightly so use an analog voltmeter you should see the needle bounce very lightly if each wire going to the dizzy is not pulsing then you have a bad dizzy and i would do that as well with the injectors i'd try getting a noid light to check the injectors as well and also check and make sure you have the firing order right
 
i would check your main relay and if thats is still good check all the sensors in the dizzy they should pulse just slightly so use an analog voltmeter you should see the needle bounce very lightly if each wire going to the dizzy is not pulsing then you have a bad dizzy and i would do that as well with the injectors i'd try getting a noid light to check the injectors as well and also check and make sure you have the firing order right


I bought a new distribuor so I am sure its not the problem. I have a noid light, thats how i found out they were not pulsing. I am going to rip out the engine and cabin harness and start over.
 
Check your main relay as suggested. It controls power to the fuel pump and ECU. I forgot all about it but I had similar issues with my relay in my 88 Civic and 88 CRX(common issue on 88-91s, though my cousin's 94 Civic had that problem too).
 
Check your main relay as suggested. It controls power to the fuel pump and ECU. I forgot all about it but I had similar issues with my relay in my 88 Civic and 88 CRX(common issue on 88-91s, though my cousin's 94 Civic had that problem too).

Ya i checked it! I am getting power to the ecu, power to the coil( im shocked my self yesterday lol). this whole thing makes no sense. When i pulled the dash out, I noticed that some of the coating on the wires (ignition, a couple injector wires) comming from the wireharness that plugs into the ecu were stripped. I am thinking that the other owner of the car must have had some problems.
 
So I replaced the main cabin harness along with the engine harness. I got it to spark one good time and thats it. Anyone know if the ignition switches from 92-2000 are all the same? I had to replace my ignition switch and i got one from a 2000 civic si.
 
so are you 100% confident that you have no spark? if so you might need a new ignitor in the dizzy thats pretty much the last thing you have left if everything else is good
 
so are you 100% confident that you have no spark? if so you might need a new ignitor in the dizzy thats pretty much the last thing you have left if everything else is good

if the timing was 180 degrees out would that cause a car not to spark since tdc and other sensors are in the distributor?
 
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