Originally Posted by mullinator
You're buying the contacts. They screw to the back of the ignition switch and have a connector to your dash wiring harness. I'm confident you've found the cause. -scott
Yep. That was it. It's actually the 3rd one i've done. I did it on my 86 crx and my dads 88 prelude a long time ago. You could see where the solder actually melted on back of the switch and actually touched another solder. That's what caused the smoke i guess. It was 65 bucks with tax and my local Honda shop had it in stock. It was kind of a pain changing it out because some of my alarm wires were spliced into it. From my experience, if a Honda is at least 10 years old, this part will eventually go bad. Thanks for the help people, even though i kind of figured that's what it was.