i am rebuilding my wifes (stock) 1988 trans am 305 TBI. instead of HEI it has an external coil. ive never worked on one of these before, i always throw my own engines in them. there is no bracket for the coil and i have no idea where it goes. can anyone help me... thanks

 

The external coil HEIs have the coil mounted on the intake, on a bracket to the pass side of the dizzy. At least that's how mine works.

 

rip out the a/c and heat

 

Very clean looking setup ^^^

 

Ouch, not a chance. It's frikkiin snowing here today, I need that heat.

 

FYI, its still considered HEI. The older HEI is called coil-in-cap, while the newer HEI is called divorced coil or external coil.
As said by Tremo, the coil is mounted to a bracket on the back passenger side of the intake manifold.