So i'm driving down the highway coming home from work. Doing some spirited driving with a supercharged 98 GT next to me, i slow down to probably 40mph have it in 2nd gear and take her all the way up to 6700-6800 RPM, shift into third and continue to go full throttle for maybe 2 seconds before i let off and continue gliding with traffic. The GT give me a thumbs up and takes an exit to wherever and i continue driving.
...about 30-45 seconds after he leaves and I'm driving in traffic in 3rd gear the battery light comes on, the check engine light comes on the car dies as I'm trying to immediately pull over to the side of the road...
...I start the car up and it idles for 30 seconds and dies. I get out, see no problems in the engine bay what-so-ever. Everything is clean and good to go. I hold my breathe and kneel down to look under the engine
Get back in the car start it up, the car revs nicely, idles nicely and sounds fine. There was NO explosion or bang when it died, and now the car has NO signs of knocking or anything catastrophic....The car then dies after about 2.5minutes of idling.
After managing driving the car slowly back to my BMW shop from where I came around the corner we run some fault codes with a generic scanner: EVAP system error is the only thing that comes up. We clear the fault codes and the car has run perfect ever since.
what the **** happened!?!? Keeping in mind the car JUST came back from being on the dyno with A/F 4 days ago!!! So the car is good to go as far as tuning goes.
What I THINK happened, is that my SCT CHIP that the car is tuned with in the computer, POSSIBLY came loose and lost communication while driving on the highway?
Sorry for the long story, but does anyone have ANY idea wtf happend?!?! Car is perfect again...for now.
My mods are in my sig, aside from the fact that i said the car has an SCT Chip in it with a 3 way tune-selector switch. The car has 15,000 miles on her and i JUST did an oil change and fuel filter change LAST weekend.
...about 30-45 seconds after he leaves and I'm driving in traffic in 3rd gear the battery light comes on, the check engine light comes on the car dies as I'm trying to immediately pull over to the side of the road...
...I start the car up and it idles for 30 seconds and dies. I get out, see no problems in the engine bay what-so-ever. Everything is clean and good to go. I hold my breathe and kneel down to look under the engine
Get back in the car start it up, the car revs nicely, idles nicely and sounds fine. There was NO explosion or bang when it died, and now the car has NO signs of knocking or anything catastrophic....The car then dies after about 2.5minutes of idling.
After managing driving the car slowly back to my BMW shop from where I came around the corner we run some fault codes with a generic scanner: EVAP system error is the only thing that comes up. We clear the fault codes and the car has run perfect ever since.
what the **** happened!?!? Keeping in mind the car JUST came back from being on the dyno with A/F 4 days ago!!! So the car is good to go as far as tuning goes.
What I THINK happened, is that my SCT CHIP that the car is tuned with in the computer, POSSIBLY came loose and lost communication while driving on the highway?
Sorry for the long story, but does anyone have ANY idea wtf happend?!?! Car is perfect again...for now.
My mods are in my sig, aside from the fact that i said the car has an SCT Chip in it with a 3 way tune-selector switch. The car has 15,000 miles on her and i JUST did an oil change and fuel filter change LAST weekend.