Ok,I'm gonna list the coil pack #s from the back to the front.

3-2-1-4 and your cylinders go from 1-4 from the drivers side.

 

Ok what do u mean back to front, my coil pack runs side to side. But what your saying is cylinder 1 which is the shortest plug wire goes to 3 input on the coil pack. Yea i have them in wrong which is why im guessing the car is misfiring. i just put them in 1-4 and 1-4 on both.

 

the order should be 4123 from the coil pack to the cylinder head

 

alright so that is from left to right on the coil pack right? The shorest wire is the 1st cyliner right? Just want to get this straight

 

on the 2gs, theres a little gold bar infront of the coil packs, they have cylinder numbers on them an thats were that wires goes, easy as that.

 

Alright I dont see that gold bar maybe its not there and something happened to it. just tell me this, what the order is from left to right on the coil pack and the first cylinder is the one farest to the right on the drivers side right??

 

HAHA, i know yer pain, haha anyway, im sure the bar is there, its prob just got alot of dirt an shit on it an u cant tell its there, its right under the coil pak on the mainfold, look around. It goes 1-4-2-3 first coil goes to the first cylinder, second goes to the 4th(driver side) 3rd goes to the second 4th goes the the 3rd.. hope that helps

 

I could swear both 1Gs and 2Gs go 4-1-2-3 from left to right if you're looking straight at the coil pack (from in front of the car on 2Gs, from the drivers side on 1Gs). Maybe I'm just smoking crack, I don't work on 2Gs that much.

Cylinder 1 is the drivers side and will use the shortest wire, they go up in wire length from there. Cylinders go 1-2-3-4 starting on the drivers side.

I could swear they're all 4-1-2-3 though. Did they switch 1 and 4 on the 2Gs??

 

Alright can I have a for sure answer.

 

From the archives...

http://www.dsmtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=30626

 

Sorry didn't pay attention that you had a 2nd gen.

 

If you still don't believe everyone else, believe me:

2G, left to right: 4-1-2-3

1G, front to back: 4-1-2-3

There are two coil packs. The first one fires cylinders 1 and 4, second one fires cylinders 2 and 3. That's why the order is the way it is.

 

alright sounds good, what would happen if they were in the wrong order, cuz i think mine are and that may be what is causing my misfires

 

alright sounds good, what would happen if they were in the wrong order, cuz i think mine are and that may be what is causing my misfires

The car will run like ass until you go outside and fix it. Then once you put the wires in the right order, it will be fine.

Really, you didn't hurt anything... so go fix it. 4-1-2-3 on the coil.

 

Alright well it was in the right order but what I find interesting is I just got my owners manual out and in the specs. section it says that the firing order is 1-3-4-2. SHoudl I change it to that instead of what everyone else said. I have a 95' GSX

 

1-3-4-2 is the firing order of the motor, i.e. the order in which combustion cycles occur in the motor. Firing order has nothing to do with what order the wires go on the coil pack. They go 4-1-2-3 on the coil pack.

Stuff like this isn't in the owner's manual...you need a shop manual if you're gonna work on the car. The owner's manual is just general info for Joe Average Owner who doesn't work on the car at all.

 

what is sad is that chiltons didn't even include this... but you can write it on the page like I did...