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does anyone know the configuration of the three coil wires, between the pos. and neg. terminals on the coil. there is a green, a red/black, and a black wire going to it. where do they go. i think green is ground, red/black is power, and the black goes to the pos. also. ??
 
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They are there to make the car run. One wire comes from the ECU to trigger the ignition coil to send spark to the spark plugs to ignite the gas and air in the combustion chamber of the motor. One wire is ground and the other wire goes to the tachometer. All three wires run in the harness that goes through the firewall into the car.

This might help.
http://www.a2resource.com/electrical/electrical.html

Bentley is very helpful too.
 
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man dont be a smart ass im not retarded, and the pin out from a2 dosent match my ecu, i need to know what goes on each side of the coil, from my understanding there is a switched power a ground and a green wire from the ecu, what sides do they go on
 
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grizzly bear said:
can anyone tell me what wires those are exactly? like where they come from and what they are for, reason bein my harness is crappy and might not have the same color wire
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Read your own post. :screwy:

I explained what wires those are are exactly. Nice grammar btw. :thumbup:

Where they come from? One comes from the ECU and should be green/black or just green that is a negative trigger that activates the coil. One is black and comes from the fusebox and has switched keyed power from the ignition switch via the fuel pump relay. That gives the coil its power only when the key is on. The last wire is the tach wire and is red/black. It sends signal from the coil to the tach for rpm's. The tach wire and the trigger wire connect via a two pin plug and go to the negative side of the coil. The black wire goes to the positive side of the coil.

If the wires on your car are different it sounds like you need to test the wires that you do have and figure out which is which. Not that hard. Do you own a Bentley? Some reading and you can figure this all out on your own.
 
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Do you have a LED test light? You need to test to make sure you have power on the switched wire, black. And then test the trigger wire from the ECU to make sure its getting a pulsed ground when you crank the car over. Its possible your hall sender is bad or not sending proper trigger to the ECU if you don't have a pulsed trigger from the output on the ECU. First make sure if there is a pulsed trigger.

How are you testing to see if you have spark from the coil?
 
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