Car Stalling At Low Revs

[loymclure]

Had this issue for ages car use to breath like an absolute pig when i was at the lights or just stopping, the rev guage use to move up and down between 600 rmp and 1500rpm and if you took off when it was on a down travle it would stall. Today i changed my air flow meter amd she is as good as gold. A mate told me along time ago that the oil from your filter can some times stick to the wire in the sensor and cause this erratic Behavior . any way just thought id post this up for any one els out there with the problem

[RubyRS4]

<--- hope your avatar pic was taken in a 'controlled environment' (ie race track)

[loymclure]

8======D ~~@ ~~@

[GoldZilla]

Clint, you could try cleaning your AFM too - there are a few tutorials in the DIY threads - and it could well turn out that that would have cured the problem. It's worth a try, and maybe if it works you can either sell one of them off or keep it as a spare in case anything worse occurs in the future.

[wolverine]

electrical contact cleaner is your friend (or carby cleaner a close second but i believe it is not the friend of paint).

[_Ryan_]

i use an apex'i un-oiled filter... pipercross and k&n are oiled.

i still clean my AFM atleast twice per year, pretty much when ever i am giving the car a check over, if shes cold, i'll clean it.

[loymclure]

Yeah fair call, a clean could of been alot easier and is still possible but i wanted to upgrade any way. I'm slowly replacing all stock parts with newer after market ones not for the perpose of making an animal of a car but more for the fact that i want a car that is tuned for every day use. Wether it be traffic driving long distance or giving it a hard time every now and then and not have it spit the dummy at me and all of a suddern im shocked that its died on me. I mean you'd have to be a fool if you think that a car thats 10/11 years old things arent gonna break.