I will check it out first thing tomorrow morning, but I think I may possibly have bad coils.
what other options do I have other than oem coils?
i know there are some upgrades out there, but most of them seem out of my price range. (okada, bhr upgrade)
any suggestions?

p.s.- i already have racingbeat's ultra spark plug wires (not installed yet), which I would like to use.

thanks in advance.

 

no other options besides what you listed

 

oh and I would highly suggest the BHR coils, they will most likely be that last ones you will ever have to buy.

 

What made you think it was the coils?

 

You can test the coils with a meter.

Use attached pic below:
Measure terminals A (+) B (-), 0 ohm (infinity) is abnormal
Measure terminals B (+) C (-), 0 ohm (infinity) is abnormal
Measure terminals C (+) A (-), 0 to several kilohm (continuity) is abnormal

 

i'll keep that in mind. thanks.

recently i felt a loss of power and idle fluctuates abnormally during stop and go traffic.
it was never like this before.
considering i got new spark plugs only about 7000 miles ago, after doing some reading here, I'm suspecting that it MAY be the coils.

btw-how much are the bhr coils anyway?

 

bhr's are 485

 

one more thing.
my 8's at around 38000miles, so i'm thinking it's a good time to change them out before i get stranded in middle of the 5 freeway at 3am (which happened with my old integra several years ago. )

 

With the miles, its about that time to change the coils.

 

not really.

i had a set last 75k miles. and they are still good..

luck of the draw.

check the connections between the the wires and plugs.. good first start..

beers

 

how many miles do you have on your 8?

 

102k miles.

i changed the coils at 65 k miles, but turns out they were fine.. the new ones were a new revision and worked just the same..

it is luck of the draw, and driving enviroment..

btw,

the new revision coils that were on the car are for sale..

beers