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    Car dies randomly

    Hello, it's me again. Long annoying embarrassing story about my drive home from work. 92 vr4, maft gen2 w/ gm maf, 9bs, 360cc inj, wideband, afpr, 5 gauges, fmic & hotwired walbro.

    My car recently just started completely dying at random times. For instance, this morning driving to class, I turned onto a street and the engine just cut out completely, rpms dropped and everything. Then it caught itself and rpms came back up and I continued my drive. Again after work when I let it warm up, about a minute after letting it idle, the rpms cut out, idle dropped very low very fast, then it caught itself and it idled just fine. Driving home is where it started getting bad. I was getting on the highway in 3rd then the engine cut out. The rpms dropped to 0 but i was still trying to gas it to see if i could get it to keep going, then i got a huge backfire from under the car, then it died. This happened about 10 more times within a mile of my house, but only backfired twice. I got to a light and the car kept dying over and over, but started up everytime. I'd drive and get about 50ft then it would die again. I finally got into my driveway and the car died again. I kept restarting it and running to the hood, and checking the wiring but nothing I found could replicate the dying, it was completely random. About the 3rd or 4th time it died, it wouldnt restart. Just cranked forever until I let it set for a few minutes, then it would start and die within seconds everytime I tried to get it to idle.

    This is just an anytime problem not just during idle, cruise, or boost.

    This all started happening this morning so I'm just trying to find out where to start with this. I noticed it began when I was low on gas this morning, and got a little better after filling up. The way the rpms drop randomly and the car would just crank, I'm leaning towards a fuel pump, cam/crank sensorr, IAC right now. The car runs perfect other than this problem.
    Last edited by rawavr4; 11-14-2011 at 09:50 PM.

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