ok...i think im goin tuesday ...so tues night ill let ya know...

ok...heres the latest...got the car runnin today...cuz it was dead battery cuz i didnt drive it for a couple days...took it out on the road...ran fine...kicked it odwn...ran fine...go to my friends house...turned it off...turned it on later hwen i left...gave it a little gas it was sputtering...then i was on the way home and it was doing waht it did before at like 0 boost......question...would it still be the coil packs or somethin else...?

also i got two coil packs outta a 3.1 would these work in my car...the only thing about them is that the numbers are switched...like the 1 is on the other side than it is on my car...but the numbers are on the right coils...just switched...would these work..? or could it be somethin else?

It still could be. If the packs aren't firing right it could cause detonation which will mess with the timing. For a cheap as packs are I personally think it is still worth trying them.

Do the packs look identical? or just close? The numbers themselvs shouldn't make any difference. On my series 1 */C the packs are interchangeble with one and other, it'* the control unit that tells which post location to fire when. I'd say if it appears to be exactly the same then I would try it. I believe GM made "styles" of coil packs, and not model/year specific ones. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

they are exactly the same...except the numbers are switched....like i think its 1 and 5....on my car its 1 on left 5 on right....well the one i have is 5 on left...1 on right...

My educated guess then is this.....

The coil packs that come on the car originally are numbered (usually white lettering) for the cylinder they go too. If you were to get an aftermarket coil pack the numbering is gone because that post could go to any one of a number of cylinders once installed. I say scratch off the numbers and give it a shot.

BTW: one of my coil packs replaced by the local shop a while back (when I washed the engine ) wasn't numbered and once they installed it they just scratched the numbers into the top of it...just for reference.

alrighty...cool...btw arnt yous uppose to be working??????

It'* slow today, I'm always in front of a pc screen, and I'm leaving for the weekend in 34 minutes!!!!!

UPDATE i went out and drove my car til it did its stupid thing..then i changed the middle coil and put a new one in...and my god the car thre wme back into my seat after i drove it....thanks ssei for the solution...i cant wait til the msd ones come!!!!! hehehe