This happened to me just the other day... I had 3 lights worth of gas.. which is where I normally make it a point to fill up, BUT did not yet.. Took a long sweeping right turn at a decent speed coming onto a county road and as soon as I merged on my car bucked, bogged, stayed at 2k rpm with my throttle imput did nothing. I coasted to the side , turned the car off, waited a minute and started it back up and it was fine...

All I can say is this fuel starvation crap blows... had it happen and by total surprise, I had hit a right turn and upon exit under acceleration, I had about 2 seconds worth and then the motor started to die down. i quickly checked all guages and everything was good, no high oil temps etc... took quite sometime to get her to turn over, my gas guage read at time of the event, 3/8th or so. I filled just to half way poitn when she turned over.

Now I need to start looking into a solution for this.

when it would happen to me i would put it in 6th gear and keep tapping the gas until it came back

I don't know how bad mine did it, but it took about 20 minutes of tryin to turn it over to get it to start, and after putting more gas in.

We have had customers with 350z's doing this, but I have heard of more 370z's getting this problem. A fuel surge tank should fix this problem though.

I will post results of the in-tank solution after this weekend... it is now installed and confirmed operational, will try to run down to empty and 1+ G's and see how much fuel remains. This solution will negate the need for an external swirl pot / surge tank. Fingers crossed.

Travis PM inbound.

just replied... also, please check both my journal and here... i will try to update in both places but may not always get to it

will update again after testing this weekend

Anyone care to summarise the solution for this issue? Just had this happen to me last week while entering a freeway. The car wouldn't turn on for 30 minutes. I had to call friends and have them bring me gas eventhough i had 3 lights on the fuel gage. :(.

Keep more gas in the car. The other pending option is to get a custom fuel tank but that will be very inconvenient for a daily, street driven car.

I don't know if this is a stupid suggestion but will this work?
AMS Fuel Surge Tank System Mitsubishi EVO VII VIII IX 01-07

So I see that we now can buy better fuel pumps for the Z but has anyone yet heard of any help on the fuel starving issue? It has been months since I last saw anything on this so I thought I would ask again.

yeah, 5 gallon fuel jugs....

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It's funny cause it's true!

wow, is this really a common issue when taking hard right turns??? im about to buy a Z and this would be a big deal to me, combined with the over heating issue.....:shakes head: