Suddenly our '94 Mazda 626 (4cyl, manual, 75,000 miles) has a problem: if I pop the clutch and kill the engine, it most often will not restart for about
5 minutes. I can reproduce the problem this way: start the car in gear with the parking brake set, pop the clutch. The engine naturally dies, and when i do this, over half the time when I try to restart the engine it will turn over but not catch. I've tried restarting it with the gas pedal floored, and with it off. Doesn't seem to matter. I took it to 2 dealers: one gave it a major tune, replaced the plugs, plug wires, distributor, and cleaned the carb. Didn't fix it. The other shrugged and said that the car "runs fine unless you do something you aren't supposed to" (!) and then suggested perhaps it needs a new clutch (!!!!!).Any ideas? It's kind of a dangerous situation, because while I don't often stall the car, with my luck I'm likely to do it on train tracks or something.