[s-cars] Dayum oinker Mystery

[Robert Myers]

Responses interspersed.


At 11:01 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote:
>Not to be left out of electric fun, basically the same thing happened
>to me this very night on the way home.  I was trying to forget it for
>tonight... but no, Bob had to remind me =O

Sorry.

>I had just installed a new harness for the neu S4 coils and it seemed
>to be running perfect when on the way home (@+11F temp) it starts just
>dying.  Electrical death.  Coast.  Push in clutch.  Let out clutch.
>Starts to run again.  Exactly the same as a couple of weeks ago but
>with a different harness.

Check the connections for the white B+ connectors on the 
firewall.  I'm convinced that's what is causing my problems.  BTW, 
it's ~0F here right now.  :-(

>This time I had allen wrench and old coil set in the boot and yes you
>can swap in new coils in the cold and dark in 10 minutes or less.  D'oh!
>Anyway, other than youth and beauty, what do Bob and I have in common
>here....

My youth and beauty faded LONG ago.  We are planning for our golden 
wedding anniversary in about 5 months.

>if in fact it is the same malady?  We are both chipped... but
>different flavors. But must be something else upstream of the coils.

The white convectors are upstream.

>My stock coils run perfectly.
>Could weak coils play havoc with ecu or chips?  Could it be worth a
>look at the ecu for possible cold solder joints or something?

Possibly but I doubt it.

>But why
>would the stock coil set run okay then?
>I just dunno.
>I'll give it some thought and report back.
>Bill~conspiracy theory~M
>