billyboy

With access to the the top of the engine already available, you should be able to drain the tank easily enough by pulling a line there - or at the tank inspection cover if you were concerned. Late cars didn't even have a drain plug for the tank.

How were the injectors delivered to you? Here they typically come in heat sealed bags, I think a lot cleaning fluids are water based now, but even so, unless the solution was pretty funky, hard to imagine them deteriorating in that space of time.

DaveW

Bet that gas was a hell of a lot older than 6 months or had water, etc. in it.

Redbul

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I filled up at the local Chevron where I have been filling up for 40 years. It was a full tank the night before I took the car into the shop. We figure there was enough good gas to get it to the shop in the morning and have some work done, including a test drive. But when I picked the car up the evening, it started beautifully then died during warm up. Took three days to get it started again.

I reported to the gas station manager, but was too busy to follow up for their response or to find a place to get the fuel tested.

The FD gas tank as a drain plug on the bottom (I think Australia got a different, larger, tank.)

Chevron 94 was popular with local rotorheads due to the higher octane and no ethanol.

However, the government had recently mandated 10% ethanol.

Maybe Chevron screwed up the blending?

The gas we drained had little gasoline smell to it at all.

DaveW

Back in the '80's I had a bad gas incident with my '74 carbureted G30 Van tow vehicle which requires premium. We were very low on gas coming home from a race in GA, so to keep from running out we stopped at a remote, rundown-looking, station in the VA mountains and filled the aftermarket 2nd tank with their "premium." After a few miles the van quit running. I immediately suspected bad gas. There was a small amount of good gas left in the OE tank, so we switched to that and got it running again. I drained some of the 2nd tank, which has a drain opening, and got about a gallon of water out. We ASAP filled the OE tank with gas that was OK. We had to keep switching back and forth between the 2 tanks over the next 100 miles or so to keep the engine running and get rid of the remaining water and contaminated gas.

When we got home, I immediately changed the inline fuel filters. Luckily, there were no long-lasting effects of the cruddy gas.

Xion

Ok guys, great news.

she finally runs today after so many months. Just took her to get gas and back (half a tank of fresh half a tank of bad old gas). I’m keeping her out of boost until I empty this entire tank.

So what ended up being the issue? Clogged fuel injectors was it. I had to send them back and when I got them back and plopped them in, fired right up. Hope this thread can help someone like me someday as it was a pretty extensive diagnoses. Thank you everyone

Redbul

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Let's go for a drive!

Xion

haha if you’re from my area 100%, I’m on west coast

just saw you’re in BC, I’m not living there now I’m in the US but I was born in BC. I miss Canada!

Redbul

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Suggestion!

Billy7

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I use a something called a "Gas Tapper" after every winter to transfer my old fuel to my daily driver and fill it back up with new fresh fuel. This way, I don't have to run through a whole tank just to empty out old gas.

Redbul

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Or was this just a JDM thing? (Hint: It's a drain plug.)

Pete_89T2

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Nope, the USDM FDs got fuel tank drain plugs too.

Redbul

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very handy. remove it and the gas bad gas just pours out.

(Have a bucket ready!)