Some may remember me posting about my newly purchased TA not starting. Some had said that it might be the Opti -- i wasnt getting any pcm codes, but with the mileage and deglect i figured it was just time.

Well im in the midst of my cam swap and today I unbolted the ignition coil from the head and found that the real problem was that the ignition coil wire and connector was totally coroded (see pic).



Note: thats not glare on the terminal end. It was totally encased in white sooty stuff. I think this could definitely be my hard starting problem!

 

 

Never seen one that bad. Im really glad that my opti is still alive. I'll throw a new cap and rotor on it and call it a day. I am still prepping for the headers, cc503 cam and pro mag rockers.. so the opti wont be on for a while.

 

I had one about like that but it was on the opti end of the coil wire. Pushed the coil wire totally off the opti. Bad part was i drove it home just fine parked it and came out to go to work the next morning BAM nothing but a little trying to run backwards. That was a real head scratcher, I had the coolant drained and was about to take the water pump off when I found the real problem (just assumed it was opti and had a spare).

 

I wish i had looked a bit better before deciding to just go after the opti. It was after i had taken everything off that i decided to do cam swap and valvetrain upgrades. Oh well i guess in the end the car will be much faster.

 

put dielectric grease on the coil as well as all your plugs so it wont happen again

 

Gotcha. I usually do but the guy i bought the car from had obviously not heard of that!