Why does my car die out on me?

Tiny
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I'll be driving the car and it will without warning die out and then not start. Sometimes it dies out when your stopped at an intersection and sometimes in the middle of driving. After it dies, it won't and and it doesn't get spark. If you let it sit for a minute it will start right back up like nothing happened. It started doing this about two weeks ago. A month ago I replaced the optispark distributor and the coil. Today I replaced the ignition control module and it will still die. I tried to get it to die in my driveway so I could diognose it but it only wants to die when I'm out on the road. Please help, I'm thinking it might have to do with some wire somewhere but at this point I have no idea.
Monday, August 29th, 2011 AT 7:15 PM

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Tiny
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Based on the symptoms you've described, there could be a few potential causes for the sudden stalling and no-start issue
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Monday, August 29th, 2011 AT 7:21 PM
Tiny
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Ok I'll check that. But the thing is that it runs absolutely fine and then dies and and it doesn't get spark for about a minute. Them it runs fine again. It's seems to like to die in the middle of busy intersections unfortunately.
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Monday, August 29th, 2011 AT 7:27 PM
Tiny
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The fuel pressure is bad I needed a new fuel pump FYI
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Monday, August 29th, 2011 AT 7:59 PM

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