On my way home tonight from Traffic school after I turned out onto the road I started accelerating and my RPM's on my tach dropped to zero and I had no power. My engine was still running but it kept bouncing between 0-250. When I let of the gas the whole way it slowly started rolling but when I pushed the throttle past a certain point it would drop to zero and start jerking the car. I could still shift and everything, but did the same in every gear! As soon as I barely pushed the throttle it would jerk around. I made it about half way home by backroads doing about 30 in 3rd before I pulled into an empty restaurant parking lot. I reset the ECU and then started driving around the parking lot. It still did the same thing so I started home. Slowly as I got home I could increase throttle w/o it dropping all power and as I was getting on my road I tried Full throttle and it worked great. No prob, went to 7K and not a peep of trouble. So I road tested it to where I was supposed to meet some friends. It work fine there. On my way home afterward it started it again but stopped after about 3 min.
Anybody have any ideas? My O2 sensor is out, could this be a culprit? Or is it my coil or fuel pump?
Any suggestions would be helpful.

Cliff notes: Pushed gas more than a hair RPMS drop to 0 on tach, and no foward movement. After about 20 min was fine, and then later was doing it again.

Brian

 

Def sounds like fuel pump... it seems to kick out and then drive normally again, right?

 

yea
Thats what 1 mechanic that my dad knows guessed.
But it was fine after awhile. Is that normal for it to mess up and then work?

 

When it's dying, yes. I had it do this six or seven times on different occasions before I figured out what it was. After I replaced mine problem solved

I actually drag-raced a few times with the pump dying, before I knew what it was.

 

thanks man. Greatly appreciated. Time to go looking for a fuel pump.

Brian G.