George, I've noticed that some people do get upset when you question anything on their cars - But I'm not one of them. I will have to go take down the coilpack pictures though so nobody thinks I'm trying to represent those as original stickers! I did wonder, and now I know.
Jason, nice offer to swap - I will contact the original owner and see what he knows. Maybe he kept the original defective one. Don't know if they can be fixed, but I'd be curious. Sure I could just peel the stickers off my GN one, but then I'd still know
You guys will appreciate this - I woke up shortly after midnight, and started thinking of this stupid coilpack, and then I wondered "Hmmm, could you whole engine have been swapped out, and they just kept the '89 heads to make the '87 engine fit? What if it wasn't the coil pack, but something in the engine itself and they used everything BUT the '89 heads in the swap?"
I know it's stupid to stay awake thinking stuff like that. But seriously, how does one check for a numbers matching engine on a TTA? I'm not sure I'll sleep well until I know it's just the coilpack that was swapped. I know it's crazy, but I've always been a bit on the nutty side (or so my wife says)!
Mike M