I was taking the vette out for a nice cruise and decided to open her up a bit. I have a TH350 with a 2400 rpm holeshot stall converter and a hurst shift kit. The transmission was rebuilt less than 35000 miles ago also and strengthened.

I dropped down into second opened her up and then shifted into third. Once I got up to about 85 I noticed that the car started running really rough. I let my car drop back down to about 40 and noticed that when I accelerate from 40-50ish it seems to run really rough. It still goes and all the gears still work, but I'm not sure what the problem is.

I got back to my house and put her in neutral and slowly depressed the pedal. When I got up to higher rpms my engine backfired slightly.

I popped the hood and checked the fluid level and the smell. The fluid level was fine, the fluid itself was still red, and it did not smell burnt. Any ideas?

-Rick

 

hah I think I fixed the problem. I checked my coil to make sure everything was good on the spark side of the house and noticed the brown wire had come loose and fallen next to the distrib. I plugged it back in and took it for a spin around the block. It didn't stutter at all. Going to drive it around a bit more and make sure that was the only issue.

Hope you all had a merry christmas.

 

I was reading your post and thinking it sure doesn't sound like a trans problem. Isn't it great when you think the worst and find out its something stupid. We should be that lucky all the time!

 

While you are at it you might want to check all your electrical connections.

 

That's the very next thing I did. All were nice and tight. I had my car worked on recently and my distributor was removed and repositioned. I think the mechanic forgot to push the connector back in all the way.

-Rick