[s-cars] Go. No go. And; go.

[chris chambers]

Bill,

can't comment on pum choice, I stayed stock.

http://www.elektro.com/~audi/fuelpump/

HTH
Chris


--- On Tue, 4/7/09, bill mahoney <airbil at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: bill mahoney <airbil at gmail.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] Go. No go. And; go.
> To: "s-car-list at audifans.com" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 10:01 PM
> Sooo... after two mos. + of fun with boost, this morning as
> I approach the
> office,  I seem to loose power under acceleration but
> recover, stumble a
> bit, get revs up, keep them up and then all seems more or
> less normal.
> Leaving for home this evening, the car starts then dies. 
> Repeat 2x.  Fourth
> time I keep revs above 3K for about a minute...a little
> smoke out the back
> but it settles down, but idle seems to float up and down a
> bit.  Wait 10
> minutes and drive home.  Idle continues to seem to float
> from 800 to 11/1200
> or so but also somewhat steadies at 800.  Holding breath
> and packing the AAA
> Gold card I make it home.
> Wife drives me to retrieve the B car out of the cave.
> So while I have not had a chance to pull codes, are these
> classic symptoms
> of fuel pump failure after 162k?  Of course I had just
> topped off at the
> Shell station 15 minutes before this all started which I
> suppose might have
> induced it but I only took on 12 gallons.
> Might be a good idea to do the fuel pump anyhoo.  I forget
> where the btdt is
> and if there's a pump brand of choice if someone can
> point me?
> This is great training for an Alfa Romeo huh?
> Thanks for any help!
> Ciao!
> Bill~rolling not rolling sort of rolling~M
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