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Sep 25, 2006 | 06:12 PM

#11

TonyT3hSleeper

Joined: Sep 2006

Posts: 40

RE: Car dying please help!!!

From what it sounds like, your intake is dirty. I did this to my dads camaro last week so i could drive it to school, what i did was i took off the intake after the O2 sensor, and i took a 3 dollar bottle of carbuerator cleaner and just shot it into the intake while the car was on. I used the entire can, but the car dosent stall out anymore. Another thing you could do with your car is check the tempature guage, the camaro also had a problem with that and at idle it would try to stall out on me because the choke would come on so try that and see how it works

Sep 25, 2006 | 06:21 PM

#12

Derf00

Gentleman's Relish

Joined: Feb 2005

Posts: 13,189

From: AZ

RE: Car dying please help!!!

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ORIGINAL: 94Saleen

Ok, guys im down to my last nerves. My car is giving me some issues. I have a 94 saleen clone 302 5.0 It is pretty much stock, it used to have a charger, and it was taken off, it still has an aermotive FPR, a few powerdyne acc. , and thats about it. Well, every other day it seems like it wants to give me trouble. It dies on me just driving down the road or sitting at idle at a stop sign. Well i replaced the PCV valve, and fuel filter and gave it a complete tuneup, and it was running fine. Im actually 3 hours north of home visiting my girlfriends parents right now. It got me here fine until about 10 miles out it started sputtering on me in 5th gear and then would just die. I would coast a littel bit, and then pop the clutch in 4th and it would start back up, now a couple times i popped the clutch it wouldnt even fire.

So luckily i made it here, and i tried to leave this morning and i didnt get a mile away and it was doing this again. It would crank just fine but wouldnt fire. So i just waited like 10 minutes and it cranked and i rushed back to her parents house. And thats where its sitting right now.

PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR INPUT< WHATEVER YOU THINK........I will take the best answers and try to fix it.

I dont have time to respond to the forum right now, so please dont be shy, be a mustang friend and call my cell and tell me what you think

(812) 391-0639 my name is Jason. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR INPUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

Sounds like youre dumping too much fuel into the cylinder without the charger so the engine suffocates itself by running way to much fuel. (smell of gas) I'm guessing the fuel injectors were also upgraded to 24 lbs? I don't know what the stock pressure should be but if the car had a charger, start there. It's fuel related more than likely.

Car that was built with a charger now has no charger... mods were designed to support one and not drive NA more than likely. Has it always done the stalling thing since you've owned it?

Sep 25, 2006 | 06:36 PM

#13

mattkoly

2nd Gear Member

Joined: Jan 2006

Posts: 384

From: Colorado

RE: Car dying please help!!!

[quote]ORIGINAL: vristang

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ORIGINAL: 94Saleen

The regulator MUST have a vac input. If it doesn't then you will have fuel issues. There should be a nipple on the top (maybe on the side though) of the regulator that supplies a vac signal from the intake.
If you have 47 psi without the vac line hooked up to the regulator, then this will cause problems as well. Your fuel pressure should be around 38-40psi with the vac line off.
jason

I have a 94 that used to have a Vortech charger in it (soon to go back in) and the vacuum line is taken off the pressure regulator as well, and it runs just fine

guy i bought it from said that is necessary for when the super charger is hooked up. now i think that what it does is increase the fuel pressure as boost levels increase since more fuel is required.