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Hey just wondering if anyone here knows what's going on with my brother's car. He's recently had a Power FC and a Bosch 044 fitted into his '95 RZ Supra. The other day we jacked up the car to remove the wheels. After we'd put the wheels back on and took it for a drive, we'd noticed that the fuel pump was making a loud noise. The car suddenly lost power and wouldn't move. We later found out that by jacking up the car, we'd knocked the fuel pump around and it ran out of petrol (he had very little in there to begin with). We've since fixed the pump, but now the car still loses all power. It doesn't happen all the time, just at random. Anyone had problems like this before?

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If it was a fuel issue, wouldn't the car sort of 'chug' before coming to a stop? The car just loses all power, it's like he's turned off the ignition while driving. He was driving on the freeway the other day, and every 100m the car would just die. Not good! Faulty wiring of the Power FC perhaps? We had a look at the installation though but couldn't find anything wrong with it.

"Games don't affect people. If Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms munching on pills and listening to repetitive music."

As Beer Baron said id be looking at the fuel pump, they hate sucking dry air and usually stuff up pretty quickly. And yes if its the fuel pump failing it will cause the car to die on the spot as fuel flow to the rail will suddenly stop.

Take it to a mechanics and get the fuel rail pressure tested. If the pressure drops just before the car dies, you need a new fuel pump.

Thanks guys, I'll tell him that. He won't like it though if he has to buy a new fuel pump; he paid about $570 for that 044 at 'local workshop prices'.

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