My around the town car is a previously owned 1997 Nissan Sentra with a 192,000 whopping miles. It is a 1.6L 4 with a 5 speed manual.

Car just died on me. Took it to the mechanic (not my 8's mechanic, but someone I have used before on the Sentra) and was quoted $420 ($370 parts/labor + 50 for diagnostic) cash price for fixing it.

I went and searched Google and this seemed to be the ballpark. The Bay Area tends to have higher prices for everything. The price for reman distributors varied - not sure how much labor it takes to put one in.

Thanks for your help!

Distributor can be had at www.rockauto.com for $206.00. Replacing a ditsro is pretty easy.

thats the price range you will be looking at..go to the sr20 forums www.sr20forum.com
theres plenty of used ones you can find for cheap..im sure there will be someone local that can sell you one if you dont mind used

Get one from Junk yard. you can probably walk away with it under 50 bux.

install it yourself and save.

Times are hard man ! :)

i once put my elbow on an open distributor while replacing a cylinder head on an e30.....

that was fun.

i learned to disconnect batteries after that.