Well this is something very strange. Since I've owned the car it has always started with a quick BANG start, you know, immidiate. Even with the failing fuel pump it had, it would still start in under a second, like you couldn't let go of the key fast enough. Now with this new fuel pump, that is offering plenty of fuel pressure, she doesn't wanna start, like will crank for like 5 or so seconds, let off, crank again, and maybe she'll start after 2-3 seconds, even once it took 5 tries!

Yesterday I let her stay running for an hour and 10 mins for the first time since March 17th. For the first few minutes of running, she wanted to stall, and then after that, everything was perfect, excellent, quick throttle response, normal, silk smooth idling. But then when I went back out about an hour later, she WOULD NOT start, it literally took 5 tries. And then, once again, ran fine once started. Whats the deal here?

Battery is not weak at all, starter is only a year old, new fuel pump, PERFECT fuel pressure, tune up like 8 months ago.

thanks guys.

Just checked FSM and it says that maybe my Fuel Pump Check valve is faulty? That would just be perfect. Just got all that done and now the check valve goes bad? Can anyone tell me what exactly the check valve IS?

It'* a small valve inline in the sending unit I believe. When you shut the car off, it stops all the fuel in the pressure line from going back into the tank. I wouldn't really worry about it, it doesn't seem to hurt anything.

so is that the problem then? nothing to worry about?

Have you checked the fuel pressure since replacing the pump?

not OFFICIALLY, but its VERY strong (confirmed by HEAVY spray from valve on the fuel rail.)

nevermind on this, shes starting perfectly now. its all good.

umm, its back. and now getting worse. what else can i check?

today I noticed something with the hood open, there is this LOUD hissing/spraying/spewing sound coming from the fuel rail when the fuel pump primes, it will then NOT start. Then shut off the ignition...and if it does it again, it won't start, but then as soon as it primes and you DONT hear that noise, it starts immidiately. I suspect that the FPR is allowing the fuel to bypass it and run the pressure right back down the return line, but as soon as the FPR has vacuum, it holds back normal pressure fine and the car runs perfectly. Makes sense to me.

If anyone knows what it might be otherwise, i'd appreciate some opinions. Hopefully some cheap solutions are coming my way.

So I've narrowed it down as far as the FPR, I picked one up today from Advance, going to install it when the engine cools down. Couldn't possibly be anything else, just the FPR not holding ANY pressure when its not connected to vacuum, but for now, still working ok with vacuum, but it is possible that its just keeping it high enough to run and not really within spec.

Next is rear brakes, they're grinding. Ugh.

We'll see how well it fixes it! Thanks for the help guys.