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is this a Porsche shop?

bob is right, about 600 ohms for the coil inside the dist.
not sure how they determined the CD was bad if they say the dist is bad.

the CD should make a whining sound. if it does NOT, then it IS bad. if it does it COULD be good.

the green wire from the dist to the CD can cause problems. its best to measure the dist coil resistance thru the green wire to verify that is good too.

he has the 6pin.

could also be the ign coil. this is one of those deals where you ohm the dist, then check the ign coil. you can ohm it out but it can still be bad. if it ohms good it may try to fire but just wont catch.

heat usually kills the coil and/or the CD. if that's the case then when it cools it may start up,.

if they try to measure 12v at the coil it will NOT be there even though everything is good.