Intermittent fuel issue

[autoxr37]

My 1997 Eclipse GS-T with stock fuel system has been acting very strange since last season. Sometimes when I go to start it idles like it's running on 2 cylinders for about 2 or 3 seconds and then just dies. This happened to me the other morning so I took my other car to work. The next morning I tried starting the eclipse and it fired up and idled smooth as butter. It's as if there was nothing wrong.

Today It drove fine to work. I go to leave for lunch and it idles horribly again. You give it gas and it may rev up a little but then will die, all the while sounding like it's running on 2 cylinders.

Other things to note, the car has 80k on it, and I changed the fuel filter at 50k. Stock fuel system, stock turbo.

Co-workers have suggested that I got some bad gas last year and it's clogging up the filter. If that were the case I would almost expect it to not want to start at all.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

 

[tbonitz301]

Might want to checkout your fuel pump. I seen these cars act like you said right before the fuel pump go's out

 

[TechBenchTony]

i agree, Fuel Pump

That or a sensor(O2,MAF,MAP)

 

[2gGSXEclipse]

Yea i would check your fuel pumps and o2 sensors, hook ir up to a scanner and see what the o2's read, also might possilby be a clogged injector

 

[SkylinesSuck]

Fuel PumpS? Try turning the key to run and seeing if you here it priming then stopping--actually, this will only work if you guys have return style fuel systems--do you?