vacuum leak/ car fail :(

[Rx-7fetish]

I wouldn't say fuel pump from that description. Check your intake piping extremely well. I missed one of the nuts holding the intake pipe to my throttle body on my n/a. Did same thing. It's because the car is getting more air into the engine than the afm is registering. It then tries to adjust fuel by what it "sees". So it's getting way more air than fuel and starving itself. Or in the case of a turbo if the leak is after the turbo then it is getting more fuel than air and flooding itself. Depends on what side of the turbo is the leaking coming from. How do your spark plugs look?

[vkjrocker]

Originally Posted by Rx-7fetish

I wouldn't say fuel pump from that description. Check your intake piping extremely well. I missed one of the nuts holding the intake pipe to my throttle body on my n/a. Did same thing. It's because the car is getting more air into the engine than the afm is registering. It then tries to adjust fuel by what it "sees". So it's getting way more air than fuel and starving itself. Or in the case of a turbo if the leak is after the turbo then it is getting more fuel than air and flooding itself. Depends on what side of the turbo is the leaking coming from. How do your spark plugs look?

sparks are fine. just cleaned them off because I believe the engine was flooded.
i've triple checked intake piping and nothing seems out of the ordinary.

[Rx-7fetish]

Originally Posted by vkjrocker

sparks are fine. just cleaned them off because I believe the engine was flooded.

Crap I didn't mean clean them I meant check them and tell us how they looked it would have helped determine if your running rich or lean. And if it was flooded I would say bad afm, leaking injectors, or an intake leak between the afm and turbo. Or some combination of the 3. Try running some strong injector cleaner through your car when your down to around a quarter of a tank if you ever manage to getting it running at all. Injectors might be clogged and squirting instead of misting. It's the fumes that are combustible not the liquid.

[vkjrocker]

Originally Posted by Rx-7fetish

Crap I didn't mean clean them I meant check them and tell us how they looked it would have helped determine if your running rich or lean. And if it was flooded I would say bad afm, leaking injectors, or an intake leak between the afm and turbo. Or some combination of the 3. Try running some strong injector cleaner through your car when your down to around a quarter of a tank if you ever manage to getting it running at all. Injectors might be clogged and squirting instead of misting. It's the fumes that are combustible not the liquid.

if the car runs I will try that thanks but for right now. it's narrowed down to the afm.