Over the weekend I raced in GTS at Phoenix Int’l Raceway. I’ll post a race summary in the general forum when I have a minute, but wanted to seek advice a problem I encountered over the weekend.
During qualifying on Saturday, the car stuttered a couple of times while on straightaways at WOT. By stuttered, I mean it temporarily lost power, and after I backed off on the throttle it resumed power & then ran fine. Well, it did this twice, and then died altogether. I was able to get the car started & back to the pits. It was down to ~ 1/4 tank of gas, so I figured that may have caused the problem. I filled the tank up to 3/4, and made it through the race fine. On Sunday, practice went fine & qualifying went fine. Then, during the pace lap of the race (with over 1/2 tank of gas), the car just died. I stuck my fist out the window & started looking for a place to pull over while trying to restart the car. A couple of cars went around me before I got it restarted. The car then ran fine for the race, but afterward wouldn’t start to drive it onto the trailer. And then it started right up to drive into the garage once I got home.
To reiterate - the stalling occured on straightaways, not on corners
I’m thinking it’s most likely a faulty fuel pump & am planning on starting there, but as I’ve said before I ain’t no mechanic (gross understatement!). I just replaced the fuel filter before the race - I think I got it on right way! Anyone have any thoughts?
Post edited by: sdais, at: 2005/12/20 12:42