Took my cobra out today here in chicago...about 50 degrees today. Car ran great for about 50 mi. or so. Some stop and go and some hwy. And a couple of burnouts, fish tails etc. While getting on the hwy.(a long right hand sweeper) just after the sweeper rpm about 5k the car started to sputter(thought i mite of hit rev limiter) Let off gas and slowed down then a.o.k.. Got off hwy and hit a couple of lights. While cruisin at 40 mph? went to accelerate and nothing. Car seemed to die. Coasted to shoulder then car started going again. Drove down about 1/2 mile, car quit again. When I let off the gas, heard popping sound out of exhaust. Pulled over again. Let car idle for a minute and was a.o.k. After getting home, called Eric at Performance Engineering and he told me to inspect the float levels (he said sometimes the floats will stick and either under- or over-fuel the motor). He said it could be a temporary problem and would most likely fix itself. He also pointed out the coil pick up in the distributor ? From your experiences, would you think this would be carb or ignition related? Carb is a demon 850,msd ign.,w/a 460 boat anchor. Should I wait and see or just relace coil pickup or just drive around area to see if it happens again.
