Engine Wants to Die?

Engine Wants to Die?

This happened to me twice now. Once it happened when my fuel was really low so I just thought that there wasnt any gas gettin to the engine. Happened again just now with full tank. What could be wrong? It wants to die for like 2-3 seconds then goes back to normal. Only does when I come up to a red light. Engine just rolled over to 29k miles. This has gotten me all scared now.

Plugs?

Im gonna do a full tune up but this shouldnt be happening...

Hmm...Ill have to wait and see. I also have an injen intake but I didnt hear anyone else with this problem that had an injen. Argh this is freakin me out right now!

or fuel pump

Hmm I totally forgot about this but I was filling up some windshield washer fluid and I think I spilled some, you think this could be the problem? Maybe it splashed somewhere where it shouldnt have? Maybe the alternator? IDK but im about to shit my pants in terror.

Having the same problem with my Injen, mainly in the wet thou

So I guess Im not the only one? Do I have to be worried or not because Im seriously gonna shit my pants. Car hasnt even hit 30k miles. Maybe after another 100k and it starting doing this, I wouldnt be soo jumpy.

It is not under warranty because the vehicle has a salvage title. All of our cars do and always have been. We buy rebuilt cars and have been from the same guy for many years. We bought this rolla in early 2002 with only 2,000 miles. The only damage was rear bumper and taillights. We had seen pics of the damage. The engine has never had any damage. And there are only 29k miles on the car. Why would it do this? Only thing I can see now is the intake. Ill see if it happens again.

Same thing happens with my car, and i have an injen sri. I think its the maf sensor. Usually i take it out and clean it with carb cleaner and that solves the problem for about a month untill it gets dirty again. Maybe its just a design flaw with the injen sri? And it only happens when you come to a complete stop. I'v had my car die twice while sitting in traffic. If you have a rmp guage you can see that the rpms will start to go up and down and the car will start to stutter then dead.

That is exactly what happens. The tach will go up and down about two or three times then stop. Either way I plan on getting an ELP CAI soon. I made a big big big mistake with injen. Just wasted my money :sad: For my tune up Ill skip the plugs because I just came to conclude that its the damn intake. Ill clean the maf though. Thanks everyone for all your help and a big f u to injen for making a shitty intake.

EDIT: Just emailed injen, gonna see if they give a damn or not.

Gonna put ina bypass valve. Gonna change plugs at 50k.

You can go up to 120K on the Iridium plugs, I just changed mines at 106K and they still looked good

Still, Id feel much more better if I did it at 50k or so. I want to keep this car till I day lol

Can you say COIL PACKS!!! same thing happened to my 98, replaced the fuel pump kept doing it, vortex told me to replace my coil packs and VIOLA back to normal

^Lets see if it keeps happening. How often did it happen to you? You got a intake or stock airbox?

Sounds like a MAF to me, pull that sucker and see if its dirty.

I had it stock, it happened a few times when I'd go past 1/2 throttle and then it kept happening more and more till the car just felt like it was choking and cutting off and then my Check Engine Light came on

i dont think the 2000+ has coil packs? Correct me if i'm wrong. But i def know that my 2001 has direct ignition and does not uses the old style with the distributor.

thats right. its coil on plug. clean the maf. that usually does it

Wow many knowledgeable people here. Ill clean the MAF first seeing that will be the easiest to do and is known to have problems. Gonna stop by Radio Shack later today to pick up electronic contact cleaner.

I'm almost posative its the MAF sensor. Just take it out and clean it. Also make sure that when you put it back in its on tight. It might even be faulty and you might need to go buy a new one.

^Aight thanks. Ill have to clean it. But still wouldnt hurt to check everything else out. I remember when I was puttin on my intake that I had trouble getting the MAF in because my intake sits higher than it should. Only reason it does this is because my ABS module gets in the way, yeah thats right, I got ABS on my 01 lol

abs on an 01 wow thats rare
but i had the same exact problem and its more or less your intake.
Clean the MAF sensor and reset ur ecu. Give it 200-300 miles and it should it stop. Make sure you do a good job cleaning that thing. After that take out ur spark plugs and see if they are fowled up

I also got me some side air bags which probably prevents me from putting in new seats but eh I like my current ones. Ill clean the MAF today if Radio Shack is open when I get off the store, probably not though Ill check out plugs too.