Q: During spirited driving, power cuts out on hard left turns

asked by on August 28, 2016

I'm a spirited driver. A typical day of driving is delivery driving for about 4 hours at a time. Most of my driving consists of 40+% throttle input, late apexing turns, rev matching down shifts, speed shifting... You get the picture. If I'm not going full race car while delivering I get bored very quickly. With a slow car that gets great mileage regardless, it's a no brainer to go balls out whenever possible. Since I've had the car this problem has been getting seemingly worse. I can corner right turns as hard as I want (I've even over steered the car by apexing and throttle lifting mid turn to get it to rotate) and throttle out with some tire squeeling and the power band stays in check. If I even so much as hint towards the car leaning at all into a left turn the power will cut out completely, drop to idle RPM and then when the car settles the RPMs shoot back up to where they were before pushing it hard into a left turn. Happens with a full tank too. Not just low on gas. WHY

My car has 115000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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