Car starts in PARK dies in Drive/Reverse

I got a real problem with my 95 Nissan Maxima. This started about 2 days ago when I woke up to go to work, put the key in the ignition, car starts, I put the car in drive, the car dies. I try it again but this time I put the car into reverse, same deal. I figured maybe its dying because its 20degrees outside so I let it warm up to about half way from the center temperature guage, I put it into drive and it runs but has serious lack of pull, I had my foot about half way down and the thing was staying at around 2k rpm's and moving no more than 15mph. I figured let me warm it up some more, this time the temperature guage was reading dead center and when I put the car into drive it ran great, my pull had returned, no stalling, no anything...Any clue on what could be going on? I read that it might be a vacuum problem but how would that explain the car running great once it warmed up to optimal temperature? Same thing with the fuel pump?
Ya I know this isnt the ricer import website but, a lot of the people here know a great deal of troubleshooting so figured I'd ask anyway.
THx

 

What the hell?

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

 

Could be some gas-line-freezing. Once the motor warmed the engine compartment enough, the gas melted and you got full pressure to the injectors.

 

Technical posts about cars other then Mavericks or Comets belong in "other automotive tech & talk" here: http://mmb.maverick.to/forumdisplay.php?f=48

That said, there are about a dozen decent forums out there for Nissan's. My brother has a '92 Sentra, he uses this board for that car: http://www.nissanforums.com/forum_index.php, specifically, your car is on the '95-'99 A32 chassis, and this section of that board applies to your car directly: http://www.nissanforums.com/a32-1995-1999-chassis/

 

now that you mention it i too am starting tio suspect the gas freezing somewhere, maybe within the fuel filter?


i think its kinda cool we got import owners recgonizing the knowlege on this forum lol

my friend started a car forum a while back, tho it is mostly import owners there if you wanted to hang out there sometime
www.poweroveronline.com