Amen brother! This experience was painful but, I know how to troubleshoot every electrical part in the car now. As soon as I start the rewiring process, I will post that as well. I plan on keeping the wiring that is interior to the car unchanged but using a painless system for all my...

It ended up being the ground cable from the transmission to the chassis. I checked the resistance on the cable and it was reading 2 ohms. I cut the cable out of the harness and stripped the insulation off and found that the copper wire had that green patina through the lenght of the cable. I...

I guess I got a bad batch of plugs. Definitely takes trouble shooting to a whole other level.

This is the result of the problem with my spark plugs. For some reason, internally the electrode is grounded to the body of the plug. I do not know how this is happening; it took me a while to figure this out because I thought (as you can see by my previous posts) it was my ignition system. I...

SmoochDarling, I think you are right. For some reason, my spark plugs were bad. . . all 8 of them. They didn't have any visible damage so I do not know what was wrong with them. I did have one new plug though; I replaced it and cranked the car, sure enough, it registered RPMs on the timing...

Ok where to start; I used an external plug to check spark and I have taken the plug out of the engine and checked for spark...they both have spark. Next ground strap...I thought about that too; since I did relocate my battery to the back I cleaned the paint away from the rear shock tower to...

I apologize for the confusion; yes, the plugs will spark when I touch the frame, intake manifold or valve cover. The wires are good, I checked them with a multimeter; I have another set of wires and it is the same thing. I did check all the other wires with the light and it is the same result...

I don't know if this has happened to anyone, but I can't figure out how to correct the problem. For a few months now I could not get my car to start, I changed/replaced just about every thing that deals with the ignition. Today, I found the problem; I only see spark when I ground the spark...

No change, I am just going to replace the wiring harness.

I am picking up an engine coolant sensor tomorrow. . . hopefully this will do the trick. I have inspected and did a voltage drop test on every ignition circuit and it all came out good.

I just replaced the CAS and it was not the problem. I double checked the compression and I have 190 across all 4 cylinders.

I would like to bring this thread back to life. The same thing is happend to me; no timing belt issue. Piston is TDC, camshafts marks are level, CAS is notch-to-notch. My injectors are firing and spark is good but no start. The only cylinder firing is #4; I pulled all plugs and #4 is sooty...

Thank everyone for all your help. Thanks mental health, I checked all the wiring and found out that the diode in the instrument panel was bad. So that problem was solved . . . get three more diodes. As for the car still not running, I found the problem. . . with help from my wife. After...

Alright gang I am back. Had my box sent in and they found that a jumper was missing and modded the box so it would not short out the drivers. Now that is fixed . . . the car still wont start unless I connect the old ECU. Since the AEM box looks for specific voltages, I am thinking it is the...

It looks like it was two things: 1) the fuel regulator diaphragm was bad (replaced with a rebuild kit) and 2) the AEM box is bad. I swapped out the ECU for the original one just to see if it would start. . . and it did. Of course it was after I fixed the regulator. I will be calling AEM again...