I have the same problem. Took it to the dealer the second time and they said they think its the throttle body. Waiting for new part to come in. I'll post if it solves the problem.

 

At 5000' altitude in New Mexico, you should be running with PREMIUM octane to avoid engine knocking. Dealer is wrong on this one. I run on SHELL 91 here in Colorado, and no problems whatsoever. At this time of year, you can plug your injectors by running inferior brand gasoline, especially the incorrect octane, stay with a brand name. Get back on a steady diet of the correct gasoline.

 

hey, when you spend 45,000 thousand DOLLARS ON A CAR, YOU WOULD EXPECT THE TRANSMISSION TO WORK.

 

YIKES !

I agree, You should be pissed, but I usually call the other forum members KNUCKLEHEADS when they say something stupid...

 

I thought Xfires are going for 10k under! closer to $25-27k.

 

its a roadster, and yea, knucklehead sounds less intrusive.

 

Roadsters here start around 32KBase

 

hell no 32k base, 35k is the base, i thought with Limited trim (auto) comes to around 40k with taxes.

we are getting a new car next weekend.

 

I would not listen to anyone teling you to put anything less than 91-93 octane in it as the manual says. It will knock as dan root says and someone else on this forum said they used regular and their catalytic convertor went south in 500 miles. I personaly don't understand that unless the the person went and put LEADED regular in which would do that. But they said it not me.

 

on the 6 speed, if the engine dies it will not restart until the key is turned off and then on again. Maybe the auto is the same.

 

I would think the auto would be that way as well. It's made that way to keep someone from turning the key and engaging the starter while the engine is alreay running.

 

Computers!! I assume that you are aware form another post, that if your auto transmission has a clitch the computer will register the "clitch" in the system for a Tech to see later when he does a diagnostic on it. Plus, if it is a descent "clitch", it will stop the transmission from working. You have to shut off the engine, shift to park, wait 10 seconds, restart and you will have reverse and 2nd only to limp home.
That sounds like what happened to you. Dan, sorry if I repeated myself, but I quickly scanned the thread and didn't see the above response.

 

No kidding, I did a major spin at Button Willow Raceway in the chicane and stalled the car with a few other sports cars on my ***. I tried to restart FAST... No, go !!! Till I figured out the "Turn the key OFF" issue... Wasn't pretty...

 

Oh, Crap!!
How did you stall it? Your fault or mechanical?

 

The stall was my fault. I spun the car twice and didn't get to the clutch fast enough to keep the engine idling.

Once the car setteled enough to try to re-start the engine (or my brain was clear enough) I just turned the key from the current on position to start and then NADA... Not realizing I had to turn the key completely off, then on before the starter would engage.

Once I figured out that little tid-bit of information, the re-start was a bit of a pain since I usually run with only enough gas to make the laps I'm doing and I must have sucked air into the injectors during the spins and the car wouldn't fire immediatly...

To make things worse, I was on the outside apex of the last turn in the chicane, with quite a few other cars trying to avoid me... Bare in mind, this all took place in less than a minute...

All in all, the car has always worked like a CHAMP for me. Granted, it's underpowered, but I have had some serious fun with it on the track...

I hope that in the next year or so I'll have enough money to turn it into a serious competitor... If there are any sponsors reading this thread, drop me an e-mail !!!

 

How much was the speeding Ticket?

 

$638.00, Why ?

 

just saw that in your sig. the busted.

 

Epyon, don't worry about Root and Byars, they obviously are not nowledgable anyway. There is a lot of good information on this site. So throw out the garbage some of these guys dump on the site and enjoy the good stuff.

 

yea, your right.