[97cobra]

Heya there folks i am about to pull my hair out trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my ole 97 cobra.

Ok i figured i was about to take my car to Mustang Muscle in St Louis to get a SC put on it so i was going to take the car out for a drive .....so my wife and I got in it .....drove around went about 10 miles to the next town to get something to eat ....drove through .... and went and turned around at the movie place ... pulled out and gave it a little gas....... andddd it kinda bucked a little back fired one or two times and just died.
I replaced the cam shaft sensor, crank shaft sensor, and even tried a different computer. HMMMMMM checked for SPARK through the wires.....pulled one out .... put a new plug in it and grounded it ...and NOTHING!!! so there is no FIRE or spark to the plugs.

SO what to do next? ANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS would be great ... PLEASE PLEASE help i want to get this up to the performance shop which is about 3 hours away next week

THANKS IN ADVANCE

[youmaytry]

im not real sure what it could be, but im thinking your distriburter or coil

[97cobra]

i have been told that the car would start even with 1 coil pack and that it would be HIGHLY UNLIKELY both of them to go bad at the same time .

[youmaytry]

have you checked all your pluges to see which ones are fireing and which ones aren't?

[FM2K GT]

sounds like the coil packs

[97cobra]

anyway to check these before spending over 200 bucks? and have you ever heard of both going out at the same time?

[FM2K GT]

i dont think both would go out at the same time. but now might be a good time to upgrade to msd coils. up to you

[97cobra]

me either just want to get it running for now .......will replace other things later hehe...

[RandyStinchcomb]

I'd check the engine ground straps, coils are pretty stout on these cars and for 2 to-go out at the same time is highly doubtful....

[97cobra]

wheres the best place to check for these ?

thanks

[RandyStinchcomb]

Originally Posted by 97cobra

wheres the best place to check for these ?

thanks

they run from the engine block to one of the engine mount studs on the frame, drivers side I believe

[97cobra]

OK got out and worked on the car a little jacked the DRIVERS side up and messed with some wires underneath left it JACKED up turned it over ......... it hit like it wanted to start within the short period of time i was messing with it between 5 and 10 times ..... i am thinking it is a wire or something grounding out or loose since when it is jacked up on the drivers side it tries to hit *start* more .... so if this might jog someones memory or give them any more ideas it would be greatly appreciated i am feeling better to hear it try and start like it has but still all confused... and frustrated

[FM2K GT]

well your not getting spark. you said yourself you grounded the wires and no spart so start from there. make sure the carbon in the wires arnt broken. then w.e plugs arnt getting the juice replace that coil. it should be easy to find wich coil is bad by pulling 1 plug from the 1 and 1 from the other. please post updates

[97cobra]

well i will look a little more tommorrow ....got a few guys to stop by and help me over the next day or so ........... maybe we can figure it out ....... i might be bald before its over though

[FM2K GT]

well like i said my only suggestion would be.. try pulling like 2 plugs from 1 coil if they get no spark and 2 from another coil do you know wich coil is bad