Car Stalled

Today while drifting and playing in the snow, my car stalled. Its an auto, oil is fine, no knocks or misfires. While I was spinning it just decided to stall. It runs fine and started right up after that. Is there anything I should be worried about? Or did it just turn off because of the stress to the engine. While drifitng I barely went over 3000 rpm's. Thanks guys.

being an auto people think they cant stall. they think that the "clucthing" will not let the drive train stop the motor. its not exactly like that... i dont completely under stand it but i know when i was rolling backwards and dropped it into D and it just died... if you were sliding and got the wheels locked and then were sliding backwards and let off the brake you could stall it.

ecu shuts down the car if there's an imminent threat of damage, if oil gets too low, motor temp gets too high, etc... its a warning

Yeah engine temperature was fine and my oil is full. Im thinking it was just warning me to settle down.

being an auto people think they cant stall. they think that the "clucthing" will not let the drive train stop the motor. its not exactly like that... i dont completely under stand it but i know when i was rolling backwards and dropped it into D and it just died... if you were sliding and got the wheels locked and then were sliding backwards and let off the brake you could stall it.

 

+1 to this, my Jeep in high school would sometimes turn off while I was four wheeling if I ended up rolling opposite the trans (i.e. backwards in drive, or forwards in reverse)

Maybe if you have junk in your tank and possibly a fuel filter that is past it's servicable life (a.k.a "needs replaced")- caused a drop in fuel line pressure due to restriction in the line....Starved the motor for a second, and it's response was to cut ignition corresponding the lean 3K condition. Engine saved. Clog dissipated and allowed fuel to return to pressure once you were stopped and not spinning and "pulling g's". Just a thought.....

if you staved for fuel your engine dies anyway.. or you mean like the pressure at the rails was not up to par for 3k plus revs

Yep. If you have sediment in the tank o' gasoline, AND it found it's way upstream towards the already compromised fuel filter, AND it caused a starvation of fuel at the rail at 3,000 revs per minute....Well, then you can thank your computer for it's careful monitoring. I was only hypothesizing. But in my mind, that was a likely scenario.

I just don't see a car sliding through snow pulling enough g's to really influence either the fuel delivery or the oil delivery. I think there is more here, or that he ended up rolling backwards in drive.

the oil system, not likely but it is possible.

 

the fuel system, its actually VERY likely if he was low on gas

 

If he was REALLY low maybe, but I still don't see a huge lateral g load considering the traction in the ice. There wouldn't be a large force at all pushing against the side of the tires.

Gas was half tank, so its not anything with the fuel system. Im leaning towards the whole backwards in drive thing seeing as how I was sliding around on the ice. All I know is car is getting alot of things fixed this weekend at the shop, can't wait to have her running good.

Nope, nothing at all, its been running perfectly normal.

I have done this twice (not in ice) but I have reversed sorta quickly (my friend lives on a busy street) and put it into drive and if I am moving too fast backwards then second it goes into neutral it cuts the engine.