Engine Stalled While In Motion, Won't Fire Up

[Ultramaroon]

Was the stall accompanied by a super strong smell of gasoline in the cabin? Serious question.

[Borchert97]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Was the stall accompanied by a super strong smell of gasoline in the cabin? Serious question.

Not at all.

[guybo]

If it was fuel starvation it would have re-fired. Once the car stopped doing donuts and the fuel level in the tank settled in like a normal 1/4 tank, it would have been like pouring in a couple gallons after running out. It'd fire right back up.

I'm wondering if it wasn't oil starvation and the car stalled out to protect itself. In high-G situations for long periods (even on some long corners on track days if you have sticky tires) the engine can experience oil starvation. Centrifugal force doing donuts for a long time could do the same.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

Not at all.

A couple years ago I had a mind-blowingly weird fuel issue that, to this day, I haven't been able to understand. It started with me pulling out of a parking spot on a steep incline. I had to feather the clutch and jiggle my way backward to make room before turning away from the curb and roll down the incline under full engine braking. While rolling, the MIL popped, the engine stalled and the cabin was literally filled with unburned fuel vapor as if someone spilled a cup of gasoline. It was insane.

I was sure a fuel line came loose but when I popped the cover, nothing. The code ended up having something to do with the evaporative emission control system pressure.

Reinstalled the fuel pump cover, the back seats, and that was that. Never happened again.

[Borchert97]

Originally Posted by guybo

If it was fuel starvation it would have re-fired. Once the car stopped doing donuts and the fuel level in the tank settled in like a normal 1/4 tank, it would have been like pouring in a couple gallons after running out. It'd fire right back up.

I'm wondering if it wasn't oil starvation and the car stalled out to protect itself. In high-G situations for long periods (even on some long corners on track days if you have sticky tires) the engine can experience oil starvation. Centrifugal force doing donuts for a long time could do the same.

Interesting. Yeah it wouldn't refire for at least an hour after that happened (I kept trying intermittently while waiting for the AAA wrecker), but then today about 10-12 hours after the issue, it would. Crazy weird shit, man.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

So I was out last night with a couple friends and we were messing around out in some dead roads and I was doing donuts in 1st gear at about 5-6k, when the engine just died on its own. ........

........keep your gas tank at least half full and quit doing donuts ......

See ...... I fixed it for you.

If you drive down here to the fair ...... don't be doing donuts down here .......we got this cop that just waits for an FR-S/86 to cut up .......


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

Interesting. Yeah it wouldn't refire for at least an hour after that happened (I kept trying intermittently while waiting for the AAA wrecker), but then today about 10-12 hours after the issue, it would. Crazy weird shit, man.

That was the symptom that we had in common. I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with somehow soaking the charcoal canister.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

........keep your gas tank at least half full and quit doing donuts ......

Donuts are fun. That's the whole reason for having RWD, you old curmudgeon.

[humfrz]

OP, what you describe is a clear case of "vapor lock".








humfrz - stuck in the 50s

[Borchert97]

Originally Posted by humfrz

........keep your gas tank at least half full and quit doing donuts ......

See ...... I fixed it for you.

If you drive down here to the fair ...... don't be doing donuts down here .......we got this cop that just waits for an FR-S/86 to cut up .......


humfrz

I get about as far south as Kent or Auburn, I try not to bring the hooning any further south

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Donuts are fun. That's the whole reason for having RWD, you old curmudgeon.

Well, I'll have you know, that back-in-the-day, I did my share of dunk-en donuts .......


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, I'll have you know, that back-in-the-day, I did my share of dunk-en donuts .......

[bababooey]

was in for the explanation at the dealership, the conditions of which caused the stall.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by bababooey

was in for the explanation at the dealership, the conditions of which caused the stall.

I was looking for a parking spot that would not inconvenience anybody so was slowly circling the retirement home where I volunteer for 4 hours a day to make crafts and entertain the elderly and since I had a basket of kittens that I rescued from a burning house in the passenger seat was doing under my usual 5 mph speed when driving when suddenly my car stalled and would not start"