ok so the scion message board laughed at me for asking this...

"how come when i do a 180 (the whole e-brake thing) the car shuts off? is it a safety feature?"

they all laughed and said i probably stalled... ok how do u stall an automatic? DOES ANYONE KNOW???

 

Well, once your heading backwords.. I'd say the engine is having a problem being in "drive" at that point...

Sounds like a safety feature to avoid damage to the drivetrain.

 

thats gay- oh well i was just curious on what it was , thanks

 

wow you pretty and that smile.....um um sorry. all those new cars have so many safety features that if anything out of the ordinary happens the computer would shut the car down.

 

its becasue when you whip your car in the direction your throwing the fuel to one side of the fuel rail and stalling the motor because lack of fuel. this happened to my buddys ITR when we went tray sliding.



Try E-braking in the other direction and you should be good

 

ok will do- ill let u know what happens

 

TWICE!...But yea,what they said...i swear ive seen you on some rating site

 

Dude... the entire rail should always be filled... i mean there isnt air in there or open space.. It wouldnt be "under pressure" if there was open space for it to slosh around and the car would never run right.. Personally I can be almost POSITIVE that its because your buddies ITR was bogging down while trying to push the engine "against itself" during a slide. Fuel pressure does not become a problem with side loads unless the load is great enough and the fuel level low enough that nothing actually goes into the pump. But the only time ive EVER heard of this happening, is cars on slicks, going onto a circle track for the first time, without proper fuel tank modification, and under 2 gallons in the tank.

Seriously guys, where do you come up with this stuff sometimes. I mean sliding gives far less lateral G than the same car giving itself the best rate of turn it can provide at say 50mph. So who would buy an ITR if the engine shut off when it was providing .82 lateral G on a skidpad.. I mean the car would be complete junk if that happened.

I'm sorry, i'll stop ranting, but just use your heads sometimes guys.

</rant post that comes from answering tech calls at 9AM then seeing this>

 

^^^ I'm with him.

Sounds like some dumb safety feature they put on new cars nowadays.