vacuum leak/ car fail :(

[vkjrocker]

Originally Posted by Rx-7fetish

I wouldn't say fuel pump from that description. Check your intake piping extremely well. I missed one of the nuts holding the intake pipe to my throttle body on my n/a. Did same thing. It's because the car is getting more air into the engine than the afm is registering. It then tries to adjust fuel by what it "sees". So it's getting way more air than fuel and starving itself. Or in the case of a turbo if the leak is after the turbo then it is getting more fuel than air and flooding itself. Depends on what side of the turbo is the leaking coming from. How do your spark plugs look?

sparks are fine. just cleaned them off because I believe the engine was flooded.
i've triple checked intake piping and nothing seems out of the ordinary.