[MR2] Intermittent loss of power

[Aaron Willis]

I'm coming in late, and I know I mention these every time anyone has a
driveability issue, but are the cap, rotor, wires and plugs all good? 
No chance of water in the plug wells?


On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:19:16 -0600, "DAVIES, BARRY S (BARRY)"
<daviesb at alcatel-lucent.com> said:
> But if the ignition were to lose connection completely, the motor would
> die, which it doesn't. The only manifestation that something is wrong is
> a slightly lower and lumpier idle at about 800 rpm, max rpm of about
> 1600 feathering the throttle (too much and it dies) and then not enough
> power to feed any load into the clutch without it dying away again. 
> thanks
> Barry
>  
> 
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> 	From: JDeRyke at aol.com [mailto:JDeRyke at aol.com] 
> 	Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:48 AM
> 	To: DAVIES, BARRY S (BARRY); telek2 at att.net; mr2 at mr2.com
> 	Subject: Re: [MR2] Intermittent loss of power
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> 	This may be reaching, but an intermittent complete loss of power
> can happen with a loose connection to the ignition switch. On my '92T,
> occasionally the thing wil quit dead while running; reaching under the
> bottom of the dash, grabbing that main wire loom and tugging, it starts
> running again- for days, weeks or months.  I also have similar
> intermittent no-op from the 3-stage boost-override controls from HKS.
> Where's that vaunted 'superior Japanese electronics' we hear about?
> 	J DeRyke, unimpressed
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Aaron Willis
'85 AW11 7A-GE hybrid
'77 TE51 3T/2T-G project