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Here’s the problem… well story:
I had to replace my igniter and my ignition coil last week, as well as the cap and rotor, mostly cause they needed it. My car wouldn’t start up one morning. It turned over but never started, I also had no spark from the plugs and the tach wouldn’t move at all. And it should move when trying to start if the igniter works correctly (right?) So I figured it was the igniter. I replaced everything listed above cause it was about time, plus the igniter failed. The cap and rotor I got from the Acura dealership, but I bought the coil and igniter from carquest. I know now this was not a smart move because I have read other posts with horror stories about not useing anything but oem or msd (I think it’s msd, right?)
This brings me to today, a week after I replaced all that stuff. I went to start my car after work last night and it wouldn’t start. This is the worst feeling you can get, and getting it twice within a week sucks a lot. I checked the connections to the ignitor with the ohm meter like the helms says. I think its got to be the igniter again. Now my question is what would cause the igniter to go out twice within a week of each other? Could it be a bad ecu, or some short somewhere? Or maybe just the shit I bought from carquest. I’m really pissed by this whole thing and dont want to buy another igniter for over $100 if it’s just gonna go out again. Any help would be great. Thx for reading the long post.
anyone???
might be a reason:
http://www.g2ic.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72295&highlight=fried+ignition+coil
replaced the cap with a brand new acura one. I wouldn’t think it would be that but I guess you never know. I’m just praying it won’t happen again (a third time).
It’s a really long shot, but how long has it been since you replace the plug wires? As they age their resistance gets a lot higher; it can eventually cause the coil and ignitor to crap out.
Also, anything get wet in the distributor recently? How are your connections inside it?
Pretty sure everything was dry inside before I put it all back together. As for the plug wires, they are the stock ones and with 135,000 miles they could probably stand to be replaced. Might try that. Probably NGK. They good or bad?
ngk 
They have some cool blue wires that’ll match the intake good. probably get those next week. Thx for the advice. 