smokatoke

At autox right now for the first time. Course is very techincal so i almost never leave 1st gear but in he sexond half of the course i am in second gear for about two seconds slow down plenty to drop into first around 6000rpm and when i hit the gas there is about a second or two were i feel stuck in mud before it kicks back to life. WTF!

Arca_ex

iTrader: (10)

It's not really designed to go into first gear while the car is moving... when you go to second gear leave it there.

smokatoke

Yeah thatz kind of what i figured. Its not a stumble, its fuel cutting... and i tried staying in 2nd and it cut again...

smokatoke

Solved the problem by unplugging the battery for a few minutes. In the first of my practice runs I was on adrenaline overload since it was my first autox and not paying attn to my RPMs and hit 10K fuel cut. I think the car was just trying to protect itself? because after I reconnected the battery I settled down, drove better without ever breaking 9K max and never had the problem again

Matrx8

iTrader: (2)

Don't know much about cars (well, not compared to most of you guys), but that sounds about right. A failsafe put in by mazda to kill it if the throttle runs away.