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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 10:07 PM
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Whenever I floor the gas, the engine speeds up too high, sometimes 6k rpm. Is this normal? This happens especially in the lower gears. The car is an automatic so I don't know if theres something with the trans, or maybe something in the computer... I really have no clue. The car is a 97' z28 (LT1) with about 50k miles, im the 3rd owner, I think it's stock but not sure if anything has been done to it. From what I can tell everything is stock on it.
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 08:10 AM
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Check your fluid.
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 09:44 AM
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I think the stock shift points are set at 5700. The tach is very likely off by 300 rpm's at the high end.

That was the case with mine.
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 10:58 AM
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Everything with the fluid looks ok... anyone else experience the tach issue?
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Originally Posted by PsychoticX
Everything with the fluid looks ok... anyone else experience the tach issue?

You could do a search. I'm pretty sure it's common for the stock tach to read a little high.
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