[s-cars] Identifying Bad Coil

[Joe Pizzimenti]

Replace 6 coils, it's always good to have one extra.


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:37:17 -0700, Brian Powell <powellb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I alluded to an ignition problem in my previous email (which
> apparently no one read :) ). Under high boost (23+ psi) one of the
> coils appears that it fails to generate a good spark. Obviously, this
> is causing me much grief to resolve.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to how to find the bad coil? I tried
> pulling injectors and doing a hard run, but, the ECU throws a fault
> when the injector is pulled and boost is limited to the mechanical
> wastegate spring.
> 
> Any other suggestions? I will probably try to swap out an entire coil
> cover with someone just to make sure that it is a coil problem, but,
> from there, how do I find the individual trouble coil?
> 
> DISCLAIMER TO HEAD OF A STANDARD PIZZO SUGGESTION-- I am not going to
> replace all 5 coils. I don't have Evo-type money. :-)
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Brian
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