Practiced a little social distancing with Butch, Alan, and Steve this past Thurs eve. The start:
It was quite fun with the four of us and we headed out toward the roads Butch and I enjoyed last week. Unfortunately we were almost to where the good stuff starts and this happened:
The issue which happened to me in Redding 2-3 years ago happened again. It had a couple of spaced out stutters and then pulling away from a stop sign, it just quit after shifting into 3rd. Rode home in the trailer of shame:
I replaced the fuse after the last incident which killed the calibration module and I assumed something in that module killed the fuse. It appears that is not the case. This time replacing the fuse did not coax the car back to life.
I had a more supportive conversation with Edelbrock this time (the tech hung up on me last time), but the end result is basically the same: my version is 2 generations old, they don't make or stock parts for it any longer, they had no troubleshooting recommendations to speak of, and the strongest pitch going forward was either check and replace sensors and do a continuity check on the whole harness or just replace the whole system with the newest hardware.
I will spend a bit of time on it before dropping $2k on a new EFI set up, but in the end, that may just be the path I end up taking. This is super-frustrating though. Things have been going very well with the car lately and I have been putting some decent mileage on it. It's been out for a drive at least once a month for 16 consecutive months, with a couple of good chunks of miles recently. I was absolutely loving the new suspension and had bumped the rears up to click #6 for this latest drive (fronts were still at click #3).
But hey, we're all still healthy here so these are not real problems....