RE: [alfa] help!!!! spider quits

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Help!!   My 1993 S-4 spider had benn runnig just fabulaous
> until this AM.  I was running late to work, pushing the
> RPMs, took a turn with a bump pretty fast. Immediately, the 
> engine hesitated and then quit within 100 ft.  I coasted to a 
> stop.  Parked it and came back 2 hours later.  It would start 
> but barely run unless I pumped the acceleratot and
> kept the RPMs above 2500.   Doing this I was able to limp
> home  ( 1 mile)  It did not want to keep running at a
> constant 3500 rpm and would stall out.  After repeated
> stalls and restarts with the technique above, I could smell
> gas or alcohol smell at times.  Once home the engine seems
> to run fine at 3-6500 rpm but a little rough at 2-2500 rpm. 
> below 2500 rpm it stalls, would run a little at idle with 
> rpms 700 to 0 rpm , up and down for a minute the stalls. The 
> car had been a bit hard starting the last week as it had 
> never been before.  I have new fuel filter, new air cleaner, 
> realtively new Bosch plus 4 platinum plugs, ( have not check 
> them yet ) the plug and distributor wires are intact, no 
> apparent leaks, have original exhaust system ( ? O2 sensor). 
> I have been running the Squadra perfromance chip for 2 years 
> with episodic check engine light that seems to have been
> over rich mixture related.   The current check code is 1224.
> Naturally I have to travel out of town for the next 10 days, 
> so, it will be 1 1/2 weeks befor I can check further.

My guess is that you knocked something on the intake loose.  The plenum?
AFM?

Look for air leaks around the intake.

bs
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