does anyone know exactly where the distributor is?

 

No.

-Z

 

No.

-P

 

ummm under the hood he he sorry couldnt resist.

 

Damn, I should have thought of that.

-Z

 

LMAO!

 

........i thought only carbuerated cars had distributors.....fuel injected cars have coil packs.......

i'm no mechanic....but i'm pretty sure fuel injected also means distributorless ignition.....

 

Damn, I should have thought of that!

-Z

 

hahaha........ am I right???? I'm almost certain that's correct....

 

Then what do the spark plugs go into? isnt that a distributar cap or something?

 

My 89 Topaz had a distributor and it was fuel injected, but I believe it was the older throttle body injected like a carb. Just about every modern electronic multi-port fuel injected motor will use a coil pack. A distributor is mechanical with a rotor that as it spins, distributes power to whatever plug the rotor is completeing a circuit to from a single coil. In a distributor-less situation, each plug has it's own coil and firing is controlled by the ECU.

 

The distributor was used in cars with a single coil generating the High Voltage current. It was called distributor becase it would distribute the HV current among the spark plugs using a rotating mechanical device.

In the tC, the spark-plug end of each cable has a built-in coil, so no distributor is required. The Electronic Ignition Module (controlled by the computer) determines when to fire each cylinder and sends a 12V signals to each cable that are then transformed in High Voltage in the coil, therefore producing a spark in the cylinder.

 

^^^^thanks for the clarification.....i knew i wasn't far off.......

no scrappy.......the spark plugs go down inside the head sticking into the combustion chamber.....hehehe i called you scrappy.....

 

I just realized, this whole time he was talking about the distributor.

I thought he was talking about the distributor where the cars are sent from.



-Z

 

There is no distributor on the Scions. Each spark plug has its own coil on it that is controlled by the ecu.

 

No... that's not correct. My last car (a '99 Si) was fuel injected & had a distributor, as most cars during those years did.

 

He he he scrappy...that's funny. But Scrappy, wasnt that the little side kick of scoobydoo? O WELL EITHER WAY ITS STILL FUNNY!

 

WOW! starting to think that picture really is you...A DOY DOY DISTRUBTOR! he he sorry JUST JOKIN WIT YA!!

 

I'm pretty sure it's located next to the blinker fluid reservoir and the muffler bearings.

 

They havent used distributors on in years. I think what you are looking for is the ignition module. The tC uses coil on plug ignition, meaning no plug wires per se. The coils are mounted on top of each plug. Pull off the plastic cover on top of the head (held on with a couple of 10mm nuts) and you will see what I mean.