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I started having troubles with my Trans Am two days ago. She has lost a lot of power and is very hesitant on accelerating, seems she is sputtering a lot. The check engine light came on, then started to blink and then back to solid. I got her home, parked her and started her the next day. Though, since it snowed I wasn't able to go anywhere. Surprisingly enough though, she wasn't hesitating for the short amount of time I was trying to move her. Well, today I started her up and the hesitation and sputtering returned.
It seems she runs fine idling, anything that has to deal with accelerating she sputters like crazy and then backfires a little. She starts right up with no problems either. I put this gas I've never tried before in her, honestly she started acting like this when it got to that gas in the tank. (I say that because I put the new gas in when she was half-full, now she's at a half tank again and this problem began.)
So, I want to get her looked at and the engine code read, but I can't move her and really just afraid to. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
Not completely sure but this sounds like what happened when I had my 97 bird. The sparkplug wires were sitting on the intake manifold and getting too hot causing a shortage thus misfiring. All I did was buy new wires and redirect the wires so they didn't touch the intake anymore and that solved it so that might be something to look into.
02-27-2015, 10:12 AM
2000 Trans Am Issues 
