I searched for it everywhere in the engine compartment hopelessly! I heard that some cars do not have a distributor. How do these cars work? (if they exist)

NO!

Honda finally got out of the stone ages and is using a distributorless system - just like GM started to do on it's 8,000 dollar cars back in the late 1980's (how bad is that).

the system has individual coils on the top of each spark plug wire that fire when needed.

No distributor - and thats not all a good thing.

Your sig says "1.5L SOHC" ? Is that for real?

Mike

damn you don't know much about your car

I believe our cars have what, just plugs and coils.

Does anyone know if there are wires under there...I would say no, but could be mistaken....
are there little wires under the valve cover or anything ?

<< [i]I searched for it everywhere in the engine compartment hopelessly! I heard that some cars do not have a distributor. How do these cars work?

NO all the new civics dont have a distributor.

<< Honda finally got out of the stone ages and is using a distributorless system - just like GM started to do on it's 8,000 dollar cars back in the late 1980's (how bad is that). >>



honda never needed to use that route....they were able to make big hp from small displacement and have great fuel economy as well.......

when gm can make 120hp per liter w/o forced induction (s2000) then talk about gm.....

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Instead of having one coil distribute its power to the plugs each plug has an individual coil, electronically controlled.

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antidote11: yes there are wires under there

Yeah but the S2000 ain't got no torque. Still like the car though.

What's the advantage of a distributorless engine? More hp maybe?

go take autoshop, or spend some time on howstuffworks.com learning how engines work....


A distributorless systems biggest and best advantage is reliability