On my way to work on a sharp left drifting turn, as soon as I started to drift, I lost all throttle until my wheels had traction again and throttle kicked in. It's only on left turns I find too. Is the fuel pump on the left side of the tank and the centripetal motion is pushing all the fuel to the right side of the tank making none available to the fuel pump?? This is just my educated guess. What do you guys think?

 

your assumption is right, i believe some earlier models had less baffles and suffered more from this condition or what you can do to fight it is not take hard left turns with less than 1/4 tank.

fuel starvation is as bad as fuel cut on a turboed engine, it can cause detonation as well and kill the motor so be careful.

 

Thank you and I will take your advice. Detonation is the last thing I want...I haven't even paid off my car yet..

 

yeah I'm going through the same thing got all my suspension done got the car on the road now got some good boost lol and when i go into a turn really hard like sliding the car like hits fuel cut I was alittle above quarter tank did it twice i changed the camber alittle bit had some oversteer and i am going to fill up the tank and see what happens it scared the **** out of me

 

runs great it just happens when sliding

 

You can but fuel tank spong summit i belive, that stuffs into tank and helps prevent slosh when on lower fuel.

 

happends in my friends car when he tries to drift, jerks kinda to a hault and wont let him gas his car. <- His ABS system

 

as covered in the FAQ for FC sticky thread at the top of this the 2nd gen section, the problem is probably just a dirty fuel pump sock.

Always read the FAQ for FC sticky thread before posting. You have 5 replies, and none of them call out this $15 fix that is very very common problem on the FC.

 

I had the same problem only on left turns, momentary power loss until I got straight in the lane. I removed the fuel pump only to find that some idiot had installed a salvage pump and didn't install the pickup filter at the bottom of the pump. I went ahead and bought a Walbro 255 lph pump and Voila!....no more probs.

 

I had the exact same problem, pulled out the fuel pump, cleaned the pickup filter, popped her back in, haven't had the problem since, and thats including during donut sessions heh

 

hey icemark where can i get the fuel pump sock?

eric.

 

Auto store probably.

Is that the little plastic strainer that goes on the fuel pump? That's a $15 part that looks like it should cost $0.05. That's at any auto store, as are most other parts. Otherwise you can go to a Mazda dealer.

 

Sort of off subject...
255 LPH eh'? How many LPH or GPH does the stock fuel pump on an 87 n/a pump?