I have been running a star stage II kit on my car for 3 years now and every year or so I have this issue, but haven't able to narrow down exactly what fixes it.

Symptoms:

Once the car is warm and has been running for 10-15 min it will backfire when slowing to a stop. Then the rpms will drop to nothing and the car will try to stall. I think the stall might be related to the backfire causing pressure on the exhaust valves. The car is running rich and there are no engine codes.

Tried solution:

I replaced the filter in the missinglink and my spark plugs.

Questions:

If the fuel map was changed do to a clogged filter on the missinglink, do I need to reset the ecu for it to go back to normal?

What are other possible causes of my symptoms?

Team Nemesis: 98 T3/T04E turbo 420A

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Check your idle air controller. I had one go out one time and it made my car stall every time I stopped. I didn't replace it myself, so I'm not exactly sure what to look for.


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Mark Galyan - Indianapolis, Indiana

Back firing could mean excess fuel in the exhaust...you said you were running rich...try to lean it out a tad. And if it's been doing this for a long time you might have cloged up your cat bad enough to not allow good flow at low RPMs. Just something to think about.

getty up

-kent-




'98 Talon...gone, but not forgotten

never thought about the bad cat. But I'll defintely be changing that out since he seeme to be a high factor.

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