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Old 04-08-09, 09:45 AM
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car starts, idles fine, dies

88 n/a emissions, aws, bac, acv, omp removed, start the car it revs up drops to a perfect idle and dies in about 3 seconds. it will still die out if i try to feather the throttle, but seems that if i keep it above ~3K rpms it will run as long as i want it to. i just replaced my afm and tps. are one of these causing this or is it a fuel issue? i had the injectors out and intake manifolds off for ~6 months, the hood was on it though do i dont think that would have been much of an issue i seached through the 3 pages that came up and didnt really find much outside of the fuel issue which i hadnt thought of
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First thing that came to my mind is the AFM because of the way it starts up fine then just dies, the only thing that doesnt make sense is the running above 3000 rpms part, which makes me think it could be something up with the primary injectors.

You could also be looking at a vacuum leak.

Good luck
Old 04-08-09, 03:15 PM
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not only does it start fine, but it idles fine and revs with ease for the few seconds it runs, once it decides its dying it wont be saved either, its either keep it about 3K or up or it will die.
maybe the primarys are frozen up for some reason, ill try swapping then out with another pair
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