I needed to get some gas (I was below E) so I had to merge into traffic and went WOT and then had to brake hard to pullover to the gas station. When I braked, my engine stalled (i was like WTF?), but then I turned it on and got gas and was back on my way. I've never had this happend before with any car, has it happenned to you? Also, the car rolled for a few meters until it came to a stop with the stalled engine, while I was applying the brakes, does this cause any damage.

thanks

 

I think what happened was that something dealing with idle is off and mix that with low fuel caused your engine to say leave me alone. Not to mention when your braking whatever fuel you have left is moving around which doesn't help much either. Even with the rediculous gas prices I'd recomend you to not bring your car down to the letter E.

Try cleaning your throttle body and iacv if you haven't. I notice when I come to a stop wheather I'm in gear or neutral my rpms were dropping down to 500 revs prior to cleaning the TB and then it would correct itself and hop back up 650.

 

you were on below E and you floored it, you ran out of gas.

 

hmm i got the exact oposite for my car

when i come to a stop (clutch or neutral) my rev wont drop below 800-1000rpm till the car
is completely not moving and 1-2 second after it drops to 600rpm

should i clean my iacv also?

 

that would be fuel starvation.

 

i agree.......there was very little gas in the take and stopping hard sloshed it away form the pick-up in the tank and u essentially ran out of gas......once u stopped and teh fuel moved back towrard the pickup it was enought to start it and get it runnging until u got gas..........LESSON

DONT GO BELOW E.....

 

the only thing that connects the brakes to the engine is the brake booster hose. it uses engine vacuum to help braking power. i bet the vac got low since you were under WOT, then slamming on the brakes used up the rest of the vacuum and stalled the engine.

 

Yup - that sounds like a sticking IACV.

 

extremely low on gas, went WOT, gained some good speed, hit brakes, gas shifted to one side of the tank, the strainer or w/e that sucks up the gas was left without any, there for you technically ran out of gas, until you stopped breaking...

my theory.

 

oh good call, starved pick up in the tank!