1.8 fuel cut out?

[hofficergrover]

i have a 94 escort gt with 1.8 it has ben made into a roundy round race car (circle track) i bught it for a bp swap into my festiva, but it acts like fule cut out. i was moving it to the shop down the road and i drove it but when i took of it was ok til bout 15mph it started to act like fuel cut out but it has a new fuel pump. it does it in second and third but fourth it dont it just bogs down and gets up to speed. i checked grounds fuses nuthin chages it. it also idels at 25 hundred rpms and kind of goes up and down between 25 and 2 thousand rpms if that helps

[hofficergrover]

ok i drove it again and if u slightly push the gas peddle it doesnt do it but if u try to get on it like at all or just give it some just to get moving quickly if gets fuel cut out liek hardcore still

[gorgonheimer]

is it a manual or auto?

[jglutz]

Probalbly not ignition related....it would run for do-do at all conditions.
Probalbly not fuel...it would not idle at 2.5K
Park/Neutral switch could cause the goofy idle but does not explain the slugishness
I'm thinking the air inlet system...mass air flow....bad sensor or connector...or...the Idle By-Pass is stuck open.

[hofficergrover]

it is a 5speed and i was thinking that it may be i have another mass air flow sensor and box that i am going to try

[MONSOON]

Maybe catalytic converter is plugged?

[hofficergrover]

dont have a cat it stright piped with a can at end

[hofficergrover]

ok i swaped the mass air flow sensor and it wouldnt start then i changed it back to the old one and i still wouldn't start so i put a gallon of fuel in it and tried it. it stared up for bought a second and died now thats all it does.

[mattswabb]

I assume you plugged in the connector on the VAF? Also check the coil wire. I forgot to plug mine in a few times when I've had the intake off.

[ketchup]

i would say that the tube going from the VAF to the trottle body has a crack on the bottom or anywhere its very common..DUCT TAPE.. thats why when you hit the gas the engine torques forward and opens the crack killing it. if the intake is all you messed with i would say that you tore it more.. and if you ever try to start one of these without the VAF it starts for a sec then dies.

[hofficergrover]

yeah the guy that had it befor me broke it and duck taped it back and i did plug it in and the coil wire. i waited and hour and then it started and then like shut off but not enough gas to drive it will do tomarra

[hofficergrover]

ok the car still does what i said in last post it ran the day before but sta out side and it rained so am thinking their is a bad conection some where and the water coroded the conection so tomarra im gona check every conetion.
im glad i decided to leave motor in escort and make sure it is ok working be for i pulled it haha

[mattswabb]

Intake tube leaking, throttle position sensor unplugged, idle speed control unplugged, fuel low

These are my guesses

[hofficergrover]

i understand but it aint unpluged and it has enought gas and the tube is cracked but it is all taped up so idk

[hofficergrover]

i think it is a bad wire becuase today i was messing with it and found a bunch of wires spliced and with coding missing. so looks like got to go throug all the wires