Fish Elvis

My car dies when I'm slowing down after spirited acceleration. It only happens when I engage clutch or put in neutral and let the car slow. If I down shift and keeps the rpms up it seems fine. Does anyone have any ideas?
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pdd000

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Bob50th

Is there any black smoke during this time? :flag

Fish Elvis

None

rhoeven

Are you using an aftermarket airfilter which was over oiled?
Most likely, the heated MAF wire has to be cleaned.

Hope this helps

Roger :cheers:

pmarone

You also might want to check your entire intake system (from filter to throttle body) to ensure it's seated/sealed properly. Hard deceleration might cause the parts to shift enough to open a bad seat/seal, causing a vacuum pressure loss. I had this happen at the front end of the stock accordian air bridge.

Pete

R6_C5_CLS55

My car did that once and it turned out that I had a vacuum leak. I found one of the intake tube connections had come loose and once reconnected and tightened, it was good to go.

Fish Elvis

Thanks for the suggestions, I do have an aftermarket filter, the oily one that came with the vararam.

Chris

Fish Elvis

Any other things to look for while I'm under there???

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[Modified by Fish Elvis, 5:14 PM 11/25/2003]

Mikie C

This also can be a symptom of a dirty throttle body. Remove it from the manifold, squirt some carb cleaner on a rag and clean the throttle blades on both sides and also the barrels. This is a maintenance item that is often overlooked. HTH

Mike :flag

Bill Curlee

Do you have any storred codes. Mine did the same thing and I had a air leak in the coupler between the MAF and throttle body. I had two DIC codes. MAF low air flow and MAF high air flow , at the same time! :crazy:

Superj

I had the same problem as well but was able to address it. I found two things that could cause this issue. If your intake is loose and you are taking unmetered air in after the MAF due to a leak it can cause the car to stall at idle. In my case I was tripping a few codes that indicated the O2 sensors were bad. I replaced these and the car no longer stumbles or dies at idle. It would be especially bad after spirited run up. Good luck

Guest

maybe there is a problem with the IAK motor and it needs to be adjusted.

Matt