hey all

my 90 lx has an issue. it is about 40 degrees here in san antonio texas and when i start my car in the morning it turns over fine but then it just DIES after a minute of running and will NOT turn over again. i just did a full tune-up and everything. this mainly only happens in cold weather however it happened the other day when i was in some slight traffic and the damn car just died. also when i give the car some gas when trying to start it, it makes some loud ass popping noises.....wtf? anyone have any ideas. i did some searching on here and didn't really find anything but the main relay which is something i will check later. this car is pissin me off!

 

Here in NY that's called warm starting

So when you try to re-start it, does it crank and just not turn over? I've never heard of this before. Do you have the carburated model?

 

it doesn't turn over and it is fuel injected.

 

Hard to say. You need 3 things for the engine ot run, air, fuel and a spark. I wonder if something related to the automatic choke/idle system is malfunctioning. Althouhg if that was the case, you should still be able to start the car by manually opening the throttle with the pedal while you try to start it.

The other thought is that the alternator is bad and not recharging the battery. Are the gauges dead after the car stalls.

Look for more symptoms that relate to when it's running bad versus when it's running good.