Some ***** cut me off yesterday and when I slammed on the breaks the car was trying not to stall a few moment later. I drove home without a problem. The next day i'm messing with my alarm system and the battery died. Probably because of what i was doing with the alarm. I jumped the car and got it running again.. took it for a drive. Again.. the feels like its about to stall... it starts sputtering... only when I'm in drive. I thought maybe it could be the alternator but no.. its fine.. and a brand new battery. Could something have happened when that guy cut me off? Maybe i just got some bad gas? I burned about 1/4 of a tank on my last refill and didn't have any sputtering till now. Any ideas appreciated.

oh I have a 1991 v6 firebird.

 

Anything is possible, and slamming the brakes after being cut off in traffic may have done something. It's more likely, however, that when your battery drained the ECM lost all its BLM tables, and must now relearn the sensor inputs and write new tables as you drive. You probably also cleared any stored error codes in the ECM as well.

 

what are BLM tables?

 

Wow, I would have never guessed that one Vader.

 

Ok... so I decided to be stupid and take a 150 mile drive to a friends house in South Jersey even though the car was acting strange. About 3/4 of the way there I'm driving on the NJ Turnpike and I hit the breaks ever so slightly... Suddenly my dash lights start blinking (INFL REST, SECURITY, ETC) lights on and off and I see my needles on all the gauges drop to 0 like the car shut off. I'm like oh ****... i let go of the break and hit the gas and everything goes back to normal. So I touch the break again and the same **** happens only this time I realized everything shut off, including the engine... I kept hitting the gas and the car came back to life... only to shut off again when I hit the break again. By this time of course I was in the far right lane and when it finally died completely I pulled over to the side. So I get out and take a look at the battery that I just hooked up... and I couldn't see any problems... I had a spare battery in my car so I'm sitting there connecting that now when a nice guy in a Nissan pulls over and tries to help me jump start the car. Well.. that didn't work. After connecting the spare battery I get into the car and try to start it... nothing. I wait a few minutes and try again... it starts. I'm like ****... thank you ***.. i was about to call AAA to tow my *** to my friends house. So i hop back on the turnpike driving in the right lane (trying to avoid hitting the break for fear that the car might shut off again) for about 30 more miles. I get to my friends house and hes just laughing and telling me my car is a POS. After I kicked his ***.... I made sure the connections to the battery were good... and left the car alone for 2 days. So now its time to drive back home... and him and his girlfriend are following me back to my house (they had to go to North Jersey to see relatives). Anyway... as soon as I pulled out of his driveway I could tell again.. when I hit the break the car was stalling but when I hit the gas it was fine. I did managed to make it all the way home but by the time I made it to the local streets by my house if I didn't put the car in neutral when I stopped at a red light... it was almost completely stall on me. The only thing I can think of is... could the alternator be going? Its only a year and a half old... but I did buy the cheapie one from Strauss Auto. Any ideas appreciated. Oh... I had the alternator tested before I drove to his house... a guy from autozone put a meter thing on the battery and was like... its charging the battery just fine. Is that how you test the alternator?? maybe it just happens to be running fine when they test it and then at other times its not functioning properly?

help!

 

anyone? =(

 

It's a long shot, but.....
could there be a short (or a miswire) in your brake wires? You hit your brakes, the lights come on, causes a high or a ground where there shouldnt be one, and the engine starts to die.
Just a thot
You might want to check the fuel pump and/or fuel pump relay, either in and of themselves or in relation to the stuff above.
Just another thot