coil pack ground wire?

[forcefedsupra]

I have a very rough idle. I am doing research to see what it could be and everyone mentions a ground wire from the coil pack to the head. My car never had this. I found one pic but it didn't show exactly where the wire hooked up. Any help would be greatly appreciated since I can't look at where the original was.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

it ground to the drivers side valve cover area. its a small wire that some peopel forget to hook up.

 

[jdub]

I modified mine...14 guage and made it longer so I could ground it on the manifold with the rest of the grounding wires.

 

[boost fiend]

ive been running without one for a year now.

 

[jdub]

ive been running without one for a year now.

:umno: Not a good idea.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

:umno: Not a good idea.

+1 cause thats def the worst idea ever.

 

[boost fiend]

lots of people dont have one.

maybe ill build one now.

 

[supra90turbo]

not the worst idea ever. i ran without one for a long time. actually, because i never had one, and it was broken off clean inside the harness, so i didn't know i was supposed to have one.
ran fine.

 

[jdub]

Not having a ground for high voltage electrics (like coils) is not a good thing. You might get away with it, but sooner or later the electrics grimlin is gonna get ya

 

[outofstep]

I ran an extra ground wire off of the coil pack as well as replacing the original one with thicker gauge wire.

 

[3p141592654]

I hate that little screw. I always drop it when I'm putting it back in and spend 30 minutes trying to find where it went.

 

[forcefedsupra]

My car didn't have one when I bought it in April '02. I didn't even know about it until recently. Can someone tell EXACTLY where on the coil it attaches?

 

[jdub]

It attaches on the coil mounting plate on the drivers side, just forward of the right coil. There's a small hole for the screw.

 

[suprarich]

It is just a field ground for the metal plate that holds the coils and has nothing to do with the coils. I have run with out it for 4 years on one car and 5 years on another.

 

[jdub]

What's the purpose of the metal grounding strap around the bottom of the coil?