[fastfredracing]

Had a weird experience at the shop today. A Hyundai sheetbox was towed in no start. It was in my upper lot, and I went to take a quick look at it to see what I was up against. One of my quick checks is to grab a can of ether to see if the car will fire , and tell me if I am chasing down a fuel problem, or something else. I shot a couple of squirts of ether down the intake, and it sputtered like it was going to start. I did this a couple of times, and it almost fired. Then I could get no more response from starting fluid. I went and pulled the covers off the coils, to find it had zero, no spark, not from any of the coils. I was holding the plug wire in my hand while my dad cranked, and there was nada spark, or I would have had my boots knocked off.
Is it possible? I did not think there was enough compression to light it without spark.
Maybe it was just a fluke, and the car did have minimum spark at first few cranks. then died. Had me wondering though.