Problems with 2003 cobra

[Bake-Nasty]

Ok first problem, I'm having a slight pop in my front suspension which I hear is normal for these cars, I have checked to see if tires move up and down and side to side on jack stands and nothing happened. I also pulled on tie Rods and checked all bushings and nothing seems wrong, also checked struts and nothing is loose. What else could it be?
Problem 2- car I doing the normal cobra shit and dying at red lights when I put it in neutral and slow down. Rpm's start dropping and don't stop. I change spark plugs, got a new air filter, cleaned the IAC, and I even tried that sea foam shit today an I still have the problem. Any ideas?

[Badass2000GT]

What is normal cobra shit?

[dee]

Cleaning the IAC on the newer stangs hardly ever works. Also depending on the pop could be struts or strut bushings or and number of things depending on when its doing.

[BlackGT]

Check you lower control arm bolts. They can pop if they get even a tiny bit loose...

[CYAZ06]

Shouldnt be a pop sound at all. When does it happen? While turning? Not a common problem to me. Something is amiss. Coil overs?

[mschmoyer]

For me I went through the trouble of changing a-arms and it turned out to be the rubber bushing on top of the shock.

[brandon01rt]

Bought 5 years ago and I have 92,000 miles now, never had any of the problems you described.

[crapstang]

Randomly catching fire and exploding-the usual tuff

[Bake-Nasty]

It only happens when I'm driving really slow or turning the wheel, once I get up to around 10-15 mph it stops and I say usual stuff bc on other forums a lot of cobra owners ha the same problems but nobody had a solution

[R1psycho]

Do you have caster/camber plates? Upr cc plates are known to pop if you have them. Car hunting for idle when slowing down is a tune issue if you cleaned air filter, mass air, fuel filter and checked for vacuum leaks.

[03silversnake]

Check your steering shaft.

[Bake-Nasty]

No cc plates and would the steering shaft pop while driving in a straight line?

[SC457A]

Mine has a upper strut bushing noise while driving at low speeds, small bumps, and sometimes turning. Some times braking (getting the nose to drop some) will make it pop also.

It has been doing it for about 30k miles and it is worse in warm/ hot weather. I usually turn the noise cancelization knob clockwise to correct the issue. I know how to fix it, what parts are needed, but its only a noise and I would rather save the time and money. ( Some 03's had issue with lower control arm bushings but was usually under hard braking)

The dying issue can be a lot of different things. IAC cleaning is usually waste of time as mentioned before. Might see if any new PCM flashes if car is still stock. When mine was new they had something published for that issue IIRC.

[KJ04SVT]

On car dying sounds like a bad IAC, when coming down toward idle. The IAC may not be opening or intermittently opening, would replace it. If thats not the issue, then its in your tune, it may not be tuned correctly to compensate de-exceleration. I had similair issue, replaced the IAC, and Manny was able to tune it out the rest. Good luck!!

[greenbeancasserole]

If you're using an intake without the maf screen, it needs to be tuned for it. Otherwise, the stalling happens.