Re: alfa-digest V7 #83

[Teruhiko_Higashi@xxxxxxxx]

alfa@domain.elided,Internet writes:
>Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:50:33 -0700
>From: Vangelis Kokkevis <vangelis@domain.elided>
>Subject: GTV6 engine hesitation
>
>This long weekend I took a longinsh trip from Santa Barbara down to San
>Diego and back in my GTV6 and I on the way down I got the following
>problem twice:  The engine would lose power for a few seconds and would
>not respond to the accelerator.   The one time it happend while I was
>doing about 75mph and it just cut for a second and then resumed and the
>second time (the next day) I was going much slower and I had to pull
>over to the side of the highway.  The engine did not shut down
>completely, it just would not have any power.  I opened the hood and
>heard a couple of loud detonations (as if the engine was misfiring) and
>then the problem went away.  Since the last incident I drove for a few
>hundred miles without a problem but I always tried to stay near the
>breakdown lane just in case it happens again.  Does this behavior sound
>familiar to anybody?  I would think it's a fuel delievery problem,
>probably a clogged filter (although the filter is relatively new).  Any
>other ideas?  
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Vangelis 
>
>83 Spider
>85 GTV6
>Santa Barbara CA


This has been a common post of late.  The replies have pointed to either the
air flow meter or to the double black plastic relay located under the right
corner of the hood of the firewall.

th

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