Fuel cutting under hard cornering

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XMSducksauce
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I want to know how many other people experience a severe fuel cut while taking a turn really hard.

The first time this ever happened to me was shortly after getting my car while getting off the interstate off ramp that's a huge circle, but I blamed it on low fuel levels in the tank and shrugged it off. But the more and more I drive in a "spirited" fashion, I find myself braking hard into a turn, and on the exit when I lay into the gas, shortly afterwards it just dies in exactly the same way it does when you hit your 5th gear speed cut, but I'm only in 2nd coming out of a hairpin. I know it does it less, the more gas I have in my tank, but even with just over a half a tank it still does it. My friend in his 240 right behind me at the same speeds has never had anything like this ever happen to him.

So I know it has to do with the fact that it's getting starved for gas, but it seems like I'm sorta alone here. Like it doesn't happen in other 240s. Any of you autoxers or drifters have anything like this happen? Do I just need to keep a maxed out full tank at all times? Thoughts? Suggestions? Flames? Anything :D


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Bumnah
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Check the baffles in the gas tank. If they've broken, you'll get fuel starvation. You can check by removing the fuel pump and looking through the hole.


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