Thread: Sr20VE no spark

Hi all.

I took my engine out to fix my crank and flywheel that got hosed (previous owner used the wrong bolts and spacer grrr).

Anyways, when we put the engine back in now there is no spark. We checked the harness going into the distributor and it has 12V with iginition on, on one of the wires.

My issue is that I'd say 80% of the connectors on the engine are not used / cut off. So I'm not sure which ones are required...

It's a race car, so the ECU is just there to run the engine and that's all, no dash, no lights nothing.

We have the MAF connected, the throttle position sensor connected, the distributor connected and that's about all. I know there is a crank sensor on the tranny but it was never connected. Should there be a crank sensor elsewhere? I know that won't give spark but I could see that being issue 2 if we figure out spark.

We marked the timing before removing the distributor but it could be way off right? Is there any type of wiring diagram available I could look at???

Connect that crank angle sensor, I recently swapped a ve into a se-l and that was my issue for a no start.

Where is that? Looked everywhere...

Usually crank is no fuel though not no spark.

Make sure you don't have the fuel lines are going into the right sending and return lines. I mixed mine up when I did my swap a few months back. Also check the 25amp brown fusable link fuse in the fuse block near the driver side headlight. A lot of people blow that for some reason after these swaps. Take the fuse out of the box and inspect it by opening the fuse itsself.

Fuel lines are correct, I have no fuses, this wasn't a swap this was just a take out put it back in affair. The car is gutted.

Found it!

There are 2 wires that plug into the distributor. I don't have the car here (it's out of town so it was hard to diagnose) but I had a spare distributor on my workbench, I look at it and I'm like... hey there is another connector here on the bottom, I believe it is the crank angle sensor.

Anyways, sure enough fired right up! Woot.