US /vs/ EU ignitor module, HELP PLEASE?

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I was hoping that I'd be able to confirm a bad ECU today. So much fun digging all the crap outof the car to access the ECU...then I had to drill out two of the screw heads, pot metal using non-standard not-philips screws.

But I carefully inspected every component and solder joint in the ECU, hoping to find a leaky electrolytic cap or a bad solder joint. Nada, everything looks good to a sharp eye.

Then I took the entire ECU and stuck it in a freeer for a couple of hours to cold soak it, figuring if the ECU is what is failing in hot weather--this would get it cold enough to start again. Nada.

Now I've got a mess of "that stuff goes around the ECU and dash" parts that I'm going to leave out for now, and try again tomorrow by taking the ignitor and coil and freezing THEM instead. I don't think they are the problem, I am suspecting the two signal circuits in the distributor, which would mean tossing in a whole distributor might be the part to swap out, instead of trying to readjust the coils in the existing one.

Months of logic and testing (parts and connectors) has got me to where I can either give the dealer a blank check (they're nice guys, they're honest guys, they also figure it could run anyplace from an hour to two days to run the problem down, KA-CHING!) so maybe throwing parts into it is no longer the foolish idea it usually is. A coil, ignitor, dizzy, ecu...all the small relay stuff can be bypassed and ignored.

Or maybe I'll try to put a fuel pressure gauge in there first, although I'm damned if the car could have low fuel pressure after 3000 high speed highway miles without any complaints.