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Old Sep 18, 2002 | 04:43 PM
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Why oh why does my car die?

Heres my new problem you guys (and girls) my car 87 na keeps bogging down and than getting back up again and I have not a clue what it is. It only is doing when the engine is under load. It happens sometimes in a strait line when im halling ***, but it will almost always happen if i making a sharp turn or something when going fast. What could it be, not enough gas or to much. it just basicly feels like its dead and than like 5 seconds later it kicks back up and is good as new. Help me out here guys, this damn thing almost killed me yesterday. I was drifing around a corner in a nieborhood (no houses yet) and it died so in the mist of the drift it gained control and put me into a porter potty and 45! Thanks for anyhelp
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 01:07 PM
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fuel filter, fuel pump, dirty injectors, dirty spark plugs, old plug wires, dirty air filter, etc..

Time for the full 60K mile service/tuneup.
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 01:25 PM
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Or like mine - an intake air leak..
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 01:32 PM
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mine did the same thing i put in a new fuel filter and the roblem was gone 17.99 at autozone
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 01:36 PM
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yeah i'd say fuel filter. Especially since you mentioned on corners. Alot of people are having problems with fuel delivery on corners. As far as I know they've got a mix of people with old/new filters, stock/rewired/upgraded pumps and it seems to do it regardless. Might want to try a search for something along the lines of "fuel around corners" or something.
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 02:49 PM
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Thanks alot for the input, ill change the filter, and i started running nice gas in it. for the injectors, would i be able to just take them out and clean them with like carb clean or something. or would it have to be a "dr. injector" job? thanks
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 03:03 PM
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you'd probably have to send them to "dr. injector" to get them done. A nice prescription for them might be RC Engineering at http://www.rceng.com/
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Old Sep 19, 2002 | 03:23 PM
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if your car doesn't flood - fuel injector cleaner
if your car floods - dr. injector will need to blueprint them
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