Reid280z

Yea… I laugh about it and a lot of other people have said the same thing. Not exactly sure how it happened but at least I know what’s wrong or at least partly.

So I looked and it doesn’t have a zx distributor. I have a multimeter and I’ll use it. I’ll try and sort out the mess of wiring spaghetti and label everything and then sort out a coil.

So the car actually wasn’t running and off but I was hooking the battery back up before. And I’m not entirely sure what the po did before me, so it’s kinda hard to figure out what coil to use.

I attached the picture but it basically just blew the cap off and sent oil flying. The wiring is not the best so I’m going to go through it and make sure it won’t happen again, but the coil was 17 years old so I don’t know what could’ve caused it.

Yea that’s what I’m thinking happened. I guess I’ll see once I replace the coil.

😂 well I guess that’s one way to make sure it works.

So it’s a 77, it has upgraded 280zx turbo injectors due to a performance cam, and it has megasquirt on it. And yea between the ignition coil and fusible links it was an interesting series of events.

Hey y’all I’m fairly new to the z community as I picked my z up just a couple months ago. I’ve been trying to diagnose an issue and I think I found it when my coil exploded in front of me. The po bypassed the ballast resistor and now I’m trying to replace the coil. I would be ok with an internal resistor but does the primary and secondary resistance change or is it the same spec? I can’t seem to find any at local auto part stores so what should I order?