My uneducated guess is that this is a fuel injection problem (or one of it's inputs). You might try looking through old posts about the 02 sensor or the EHA valve. I know that stevebfl posted some extremely detailed testing procedures for the EHA earlier this month in this thread:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?threadid=53987

Hope this helps.

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