Help please!
 

Sorry for posting this again I meant to post here first but i posted in the Texas discussion thread first.

So I was driving my Z today and as I was about to merge on the highway I accelerated into redline with my 3rd gear.
I shifted right at fuel cutoff and then slapped it into fourth however my car turned off completely and i loss all power.

Pulled over on the shoulder of the service road and then attempted to turn on my car.. did not work.
Opened the hood and inspected everything, no loose connections and no funny smells..

Reset the ECU with the accelerator pedal and then on my third try it turned on but the car was vibrating like CRAZY and RPMS were fluctuating between 1.2k and 400 and it was shaking inside the cabin, so I turned it off and got it towed home..

Taking it to Nissan tomorrow..
Im so confused..
Anyone know what happened?

Thanks for the help

Fuel starvation? Search is your friend.

I thought the fuel pump might be messed up but that was just a complete guess..

been searching for a while nothing concrete yet

Right turn?

Was you flying on the on-ramp, and it's a tight right hander? And you have a 1/2 tank or less of gas in the tank? If so, you have just experinced fuel starvation. :eek: And welcome to the club. Add a couple of gallons of gas to the tank, and try to start it, before you take it to the dealer. ;)

Now that I think about it right before I got on the ramp I took a very hard right and lost my back end because I was racing this dude in a stock challenger and it was right after the corner before the ramp is when it messed up.. I hope this is it bc I only had 1/4 tank left in the car when this happened. Will try tomorrow. Thank you!

Is there a TSB on this issue?

Nope.

:facepalm: :gtfo2:

Yup. Nothing makes my desire to help disappear like reading about one of our members street racing like an idiot. Especially the day after someone comes on here raising donations for someone who was killed by street racers in Houston and left behind two orphaned kids. Did you think adding the part about that little race in there was going to make you seem cool?

http://www.the370z.com/lounge-off-to...reet-race.html

in case your dealer can't find the problem tell them to check this
 

I think you broke the little wire sensor inside your throttle bodys. Is that what they are called????

Even if street racing were cool, discussion of such is still against site rules.

Trying to figure out where the racing part is :confused:

It's been quoted and bolded already. ;)

:iagree:

Thank you for being part of the problem. I think you deserve what you get when you race on the street. It's too bad the douches who race and cause accidents more often hurt other innocents and not themselves. It's pure stupidity.

Oh -- Reported.

Back on topic, it definitely sounds like right hand fuel starvation. Pour in a gallon of gas and you should be fine just keep your fuel level above half tank if you are going to pull a sustained hard right turn.

Oh, and be careful out there. Racing will get you hurt and endanger others. As you are quickly finding out here, it is not allowed to be discussed in this forum.

Have fun, be safe, and watch your fuel gauge.

Here is a fix for the starvation issue.
http://www.the370z.com/track-autocro...round-2-a.html

stool pigeon :p

:tiphat:

Nice to see you got it :tiphat:

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion.

At least he communicated his problem clearly :p

yeah i saw that on houston z on face book, very sad because of few imatures bad decision to race on the public road.. you want to race take it to the track..

Don't Street Race
 

For the Love of God, Please don't street race.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...5f70eb948c.jpg

I fixed the issue this morning after adding two tanks of gas. Thanks everyone for the help.
And also, I am well aware that street racing is illegal and is dangerous. The road where this happens was the service road of hwy 360 and for those who are familiar that road is completely empty at 10 pm. I know this doesn't justify my actions any more or less but it is what it is and the challenger I was racing was a guy I knew, we weren't going through traffic or anything just taking advantage of a 1 mile straight away on the side of the road.
I am sorry to hear about what happened in Houston and hopefully after this I can learn to stop driving like an idiot unless it is on a tracked designed to do so. Again, thanks for the help everyone.

Yeah, keep the car full of gas or take right hand turns real easy.

IBTL. Fuel starvation strikes again.

I have had this issue in my VW GTI but the tank was near empty when it happened. I still had 1/4th left in the Z. I just got really freaked out last night.. All the research I've thought i had already done on the Z clearly wasn't enough. I never even read about this issue. Could be a pain if you're on the track I imagine.. Just glad it was something small. Mind is at ease now!

:tiphat:

our cars will never be good UPS delivery cars... cause UPS mostly only make right turns. :icon17:

would make a great USPS delivery car. cause usually late or never arrive... or arrive damaged. :ugh:

:icon18:

Fixed! :tiphat:

Glad you got your problem fixed too!

Its gone this far......
:stirthepot: So who :driving:

Lol it was a base model.... He stood no chance but with the Z turning off all of a sudden the last thing that was on my mind was :driving:

So it was a V6? SRT-8 would have been fun. Would have been close!

^^^^^^^^ reported ^^^^^^^

reported for spam. :mad:

^^^^^ Reported for no sense of humor^^^^^^

..that post of mine was a joke.. :ugh: