also check or bypass the clutch safety switch.

 

how are you checking for spark? which method are you using?

 

well. three different ways.....pulling a plug and wire and grounding it on the block, putting a screw driver in the end of the wire boot, and lastly using a spark plug tester tool from my work at mercedes

 

doesnt that just disable the starter?!?

my starter cranks, fuel spits, no fireball

 

i just finished my swap yesterday and had the same problem....
2 things
1 my wire harness that i got off some body rewire the distributor connector for some reason. and i stll havent fiqured out why

2 take the cap off and see where the firing order starts i know it should be 1-3-4-2 but mine actually was 4-2-1-3... when i hooked them up the backwards way and it fired right up

try this its simple and should only take a few sec...

 

Right on clutch switch. Forgot for a min what the orig post was here.
You can troubleshoot coil and icm grn/yellow blue/white wires, but I'd try to get my hands on a distributor just to pop it on and try it if there is one handy somewhere. If that doesn't work and you are not throwing any codes, I would say it has to be a ground somewhere

 

well i can see #1 being an issue.... but the number 2 would have nothing to do with wether the plugs fire or not- if you have the wires on incorrectly it would still spark - may not start up, but if it did... it would run really crappy.

 

this statement rules out any problems with the ecu, dizzy, fusebox and wires.

isnt that everything??? other than ground.

 

by wire do you mean spark plug wires? or the whole wirring harness?

 

spark wires

the harness is right out of the box from honda

im at a complete loss of ideas here