Nearly crashed!!!!!!!
#1
Nearly crashed!!!!!!!
Yesterday while overtaking a truck my 1998 Impreza decided to totally cut the power at about 3500rpm, scary as there was a lorry coming the other way!! It only lasted for max 2 secs and no lights came up on the dash during or afterwards but it was such a loss of power that it felt like i'd hit something! It has happened before once but it was a few weeks ago, I tried to make it do it again and it did it 3 times in all, the last time was so sudden i thought we were gonna somersault down the road! I lifted the bonnet to check all the obvious things but can't see anything. The car was parked all day and last night when I drove it again it was fine again. Wondering if its the coil pack breaking down? It does feel like an engine fault, not drivetrain. Any ideas please????
#3
Maybe, but a fuel cut/pressure drop like that is more likely to happen as soon as you ask for a lot of fuel quickly, ie at low revs, from a standing start or blipping the throttle, not as part of a progressive acceleration, I was accellerating but not THAT hard......
#4
a fuel cut is a safety measure that happens when the car over boosts to stop it blowing its self to peices, it just stops the fuel and can feel like running into a brick wall, do you have a boost guage fitted if so what dose it boost to, what mods do you have?
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#8
Sounds like fuel cut - it can be down to momentary overboost so you may not see it on a gauge. One thing that can cause it is if the restrictor has been removed from the wastegate piping, or the hole is the wrong size.
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26 February 2001 05:48 PM