Alright, about a week ago, the car ('95 GSR) started to misfire at WOT.

I first suspected the cap and rotor, and began to try to take the cap off. Well, one of the bolts/screws snapped off into the distributor.

I coundn't do much it with, except drill it out and retap a thread.

Since I had to pull the distributor off to drill the old screw out, I'm guessing I messed up the ignition timing.

The car would just misfire and sputter whenever I would go WOT, pretty much at any rpm, load or no load on the motor.

So, I tested the primary coil, and it came back to 1.1 ohms, and 0.6-0.8 is acceptable. The secondary coil came back to about 15k ohms, with 12.8k to 19.2k being in-spec.

Me and a friend have tried playing with the distributor, setting it at different angles and places, and have finally adjusted to the right spot, to where it doesn't misfire anymore at idle, and only misfires and sputters occasionally at WOT, I'm guessing the coil that's bad has something to do with that - it just keeps going in and out...

I'm going to go ahead and get a distributor from a friend, or just buy a brand new one.

What do I need to do to get the ignition timing back to stock?

We tried messing with a timing light earlier, but we don't really know exactly what to make of each dot and line and such on the crank, plus it wasn't one of the lights with the dial-in feature.


Thanks much, HAN, you guys have been great for info so far.