Well, I've been saving up for months, and I finally purchased my first sports car! A beautiful 87 corvette with 186k miles. I'm sure you all remember the excitement, and I'm sure it's a pretty common feeling on these forums. It's driving great - however there is one minor problem.

After it gets hot, if I leave off for a 5-10 minutes, then try to start it, the engine starts, spins, but then stalls after about 20 seconds. If I turn off the ignition and immediately start it again, it comes on fine. The suspects I can think of are leaky fuel injectors flooding the chamber and causing the stall, or else some problem with the air intake system. Any other ideas or simple procedures I could do to find the problem?

I talked about this with a friend who owns a fuel-injected RX7, and he says that a common fix to leaky fuel injectors on those cars is to mess with the electronics such that the fuel pressure regulator releases pressure as soon as the ignition is turned off. I'm not very familiar with Corvettes (I just got mine two weeks ago) but if that indeed is the problem, is there a similar solution for me?

 

Yeah - injectors could be leakin'.

Do a fuel pressure test, and watch leakdown time. Someone here knows what to watch for timewise.

Turn the key on to prime the rails, then don't start it, but watch the clock and the guage.