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Mustangs stalls when clutch pushed in @Higher RPM

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I've had an issue with my 2004 Mustang GT 5-speed for a while now. Heres a scenario. I'm driving down the road accelerating in third gear, the RPM's get to 3000rpm and I decide to shift to fourth gear. If I hold down the clutch without actually engaging into 4th gear, the rpms drop (like they should) but the needle will fall to zero and the engine dies. Normally I would engage the clutch and down shift or whatever, but the engine should only drop to its set idle right? This problem normally only happens at speeds above 40mph. The car idles fine, and starts fine (most of the time). The car only has 23,000 mile on it and and everything else seems to work fine. But sometimes the engine stall catches me off guard, and since the power steering and pwr brakes shut off, it could be dangerous if I can't pop th eclutch fast enough to get the engine going again.
Do you have any suggestions or anyone had this problem before?:headscratch:
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dionysus, I feel your pain. The stalling has happened to me a couple times as well. I have a 2004 Mustang GT with a BBK 75mm throttle body, C&L upper intake plenum, C&L intake system. I also run a K&N air filter. The stalling is rare, but it's a pain in the a$$ simply because no power steering and power brakes make life interesting for a couple seconds. I would recommend cleaning the throttle body, the MAF sensor, and the IAC. They're all easy to clean and the MAF sensor has a bad habit of stalling this engine when it gets oily from excess oil on the air filter. The MAF sensor can be cleaned by spraying some TB cleaner into the sensor's hole, and spinning a Q-tip softly over the wire. Be careful, the wire breaks easily. To clean the IAC, spray TB cleaner into both holes and use a Q-tip to clean the mechanism inside. If your problem is the MAF sensor, run paper filters instead of K&N. That will keep EVERYTHING much cleaner in the intake system, and you don't have enough mods to really need more than a high quality air filter anyway. Worst case scenario, buy a paper filter and do test runs before installing it and after. I can bet you won't notice a difference.

Hope this helps.
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