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Car Dies At Intersections Help

alright so heres the problem, i'll be driving around, then ill hit a red light
or a stop sign and then all of a sudden my oil pressure drops to near nothing, my rpm drops to below 500 and all of my warning lights come on and the car stalls.  anyone have some advise on what i could do ?
the car is a
1994 mercury Cougar rx-7
3.8 f/i v6

any answers would be nice:bowdown:

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #1 –
You don't have a Fox Cougar so I can't offer any technical help. My guess would be to pull your codes and start from there.

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #2 –
TPS or IAC?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #3 –
i'm not sure what tps or iac means, but if you would care to explain i'm sure i could give you an answer. and yea checking the codes was my last option, casue i'd rather fix it myself then pay someone to fix it for me

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #4 –
TPS = Throttle position sensor
IAC = Idle air controller

Checking codes should be the first thing you do. So that you arn't throwing unneccesary parts at the car. You can go to Auto Zone or some place like that and have them check the codes for free.

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #5 –
A picture of your engine bay would be a great help.

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #6 –
Like stated above you need codes.could be a simple sensor.
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +
 

Car Dies At Intersections Help

Reply #7 –
hey guys got the answer to my question, with one of your suggestions, it ended up being a sending unit for the computer and a very very low in gear idle (400rpm)  so when stopped in gear the computer would think the car had no oil, due to very low rpm's which lowers the oil pressure, so an oil change and a new sending unit fixed this problem for me, thanks for the suggestions.