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Now about three weeks ago I bought my first Trans Am, I'm 17, not that car-savvy, and I have had the worst luck with this car in the past three weeks since owning it.

Well here's the story so far.

I bought the car from a small dealership, you know, one of the ones you should stay away from. The car was a decent buy, $4000 for a LT1, 120k miles. I testdrove the car on two separate occasions before buying, I had a mechanic come out and personally inspect it, it looked like a steal, so I bought it with all the money I had saved from working.

The day I bought the 1994 Trans Am, I hadn't owned the car for fifteen minutes, while driving it home on the interstate in 6 o-clock traffic, the engine suddently cuts off and I loose all pressure in the gas peddal, to make it even better, I was in the center lane of traffic on the interstate, and it was raining like hell.

Got the car towed to my house, waited an hour, car started beautifully.

Took the car back to the machanic the next day, stalled out half-way, started up a bit rough after ten minutes, shut it off, got it towed the rest of the way there.

Machanic "Supposedly" put on a new fuel filter, and I hadn't had a problem since.

(Other crap that happened, however now repaired.) I told the machanic to do an oil change and replace the filter, so the machanic over-flowed my oil, which could've meant an engine rebuild, and rounded out the plug, so the next time I started it up, my oil plug shot out, and I had a five foot wide puddle of oil beneath my car. Of which my machanic fixed for free.

Installed subwoofer, moron wired it backwards, drained the battery, had to buy a new battery and put it in. $70

Anyways, I drove the car about five times since, I drove to homecoming, I drove a few girls around, and it acted fine, yet two nights ago I went to start the car. Car started. drove about five feet then conked out again.

Any suggestions?

(Miscilianias things.)

Before I owned this car, it's had about three owners before.. Carfax is clean, but here's some things that I've known been done to it.

The exhaust system is straight pipe, no catalytic converter, the cars been lowered to three inches off the ground, and it has a cool-air intake system on it.

Basically I have the same thing as you. What did you do to fix your's? Besides the fuel filter because we already tried that?

have you checked to make sure the distributor cap isn't cracked or worn out

we will check that tonight is there anything else you might recommend because now it works it runs fine but we are scared to drive it because of the fear of it stalling and being far away from the house

check all positive power connections. test throttle positioning sensor with a multi meter. does it stall out while under excelleration, part throttle or off the throttle.

Bought the car a year ago, been driving fine. In march the distributor/opti-spark was replaced after it failed. Car drove fine till august, then it started stalling. Fuel pump and fuel filter have been replaced. Car will approximately drive 5-10 miles and then total power loss. Car will crank but will not start until after it sets for a few hours, then it will start again and run. All accessories work after it stalled. Car will crank but will not start. 1994 Formula V8 with the LT1 motor auto trans 134,000 miles. Replaced a wire harness that goes to the opti-spark/distributor upon a recommendation and it was cheap and easy to replace. The car does have extensive oil leaks. HELP

It sounds like something is getting hot and shutting off. can you get the car to shut off by letting it sit and idle till it gets hot. if not drive the car (near home) till it shuts off then check for spark at the coil if theres spark there check for spark at the spark plugs.

Thanks good idea we will be sure to check that tomorrow night or saturday morning

hopefully this works

we found out what was wrong and its the distributor again

so hopefully we will get it fixed and on its way to be sold

glad you found the problem.

ok well we have no idea wut to do now

the distributor i guess wuznt the problem

we bought a new one and installed it and it still isnt running

HELP?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!

There couple more things you should check out.

1. Was the distributor complete replace or just the cap replace. The reason why I ask is the pick up coil or module is possible be defective. This would case the car to work for a while and just shut down unilt it would cool and start up just fine. Famous on HEI distributor.

2. Temperture senor causes the same issue as what you are talking about. Not sure if you have a lite or a gauge. Saying that it doesn't mean the senor givening a bad reading to ECM or computer which also just shutdown the engine unilt it cool down and just startup fine.

3. possible EGR value could be issue but the car would be driving rough most of the time and you should have code or engine lite or service lite.

4. I know you have replace the battery but alternator may not enough power to keep the car running if the power drops below 9 volts the will stop the engine running.

I hope this info will help

alright thanks we will be sure to try that as soon as possible and let u know

thanks for the info