Well folks - thanks to the diligence of FlatOut, the car is fixed, pending some additional testing. But it basically sounds repaired since we've been able to recreate the problem in the garage.

While we replaced the coils with other used coils, returning the coils back to the originals seems to have made the repair. Many other things were done to the car so who knows - another fix may be in the mix of things, where the coil swapout created another situation. Only the test at the track will tell, but Nick had the car into third gear (cops after him with his hair on fire). Another round of tests at the track and I'm ready for LRP on 8/5.