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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 09:41 AM
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Flooding

How can i make it stop flooding? EVERY DAY IT FLOODS AND and its pissing me off. and its embarassing as hell. is there anything i can do to stop it i have 170000kms....pls help
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 10:43 AM
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Get the fuel injectors cleaned and install a fuel pump cut switch. Try to avoid starting & shutting it off cold (warm it up some before shutting off).
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 10:47 AM
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Try this, when you go to start the car, put the foot ALL THE WAY to the floor. RX7s have a fuel cut switch built in when the pedal is all the way to the floor. I am positive its on S5 cars, and hear its on S4 cars (and it works for my S4 car, so i presume its fine)
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 11:12 AM
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Re: Flooding

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How can i make it stop flooding? EVERY DAY IT FLOODS AND and its pissing me off. and its embarassing as hell. is there anything i can do to stop it i have 170000kms....pls help
This will show you how to make a fuel cut switch.

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...looding+switch
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 11:35 AM
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Switches are ghetto, try having the injectors and then if that doesn't fix it yank the fuel pump and rip the little plastic valve that looks like a little basket out of the nipple with needle nose pliers. The car won't hold fuel pressure when its off and flood. It;ll take about one unnoticeable second for the car to build pressure when you start it, but it'll probably never flood again.

Or you can use a ghetto rigged switch and turn the car over, flip the switch again and start the car with a wonderful plume of smoke (unburnt gas) . The chicks really dig that.

Last edited by Kspurr; Oct 18, 2002 at 11:37 AM.
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 01:58 PM
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instead of having a fuel fuse i have a switch...that i can flip and it will enable me to do the unflooding thing but its a pain in the ***.....
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 02:04 PM
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Roy_James is correct.
when starting if it floods press pedal to the flor and hold it(DO NOT pump) and it will stop the injectors until until it fires.
I have some really high miles and I flood every now and then and this works perfect for me.

Good luck
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 02:14 PM
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yeah it was so weird too. i was just driving now and it died dead...no bang or anything...the starter wont move i juet get a clicking noise....i hate it
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 02:19 PM
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clicking noise. hmmmm
you can check the starter but its prolly a bad ground.
that happened to me on my old 87 base and a replacement starter did the same thing.

Good luck
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Old Oct 18, 2002 | 02:22 PM
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would it just die like that though...i was slowly starting off..it felt like i stalled it cause i jerked hard
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