What do you guys think? It just got a new (salvage yard) transmission through the warranty company. The 99' Lesabre I was driving as a rental during the time felt a little quicker than this... so she seems sluggish. Transmission shifts great IMO though, and looks shiny and clean .



BTW, I was trying to record the noise that sounded like a vacuum leak, kind of sounds like a turbo, but I couldn't get it with the camera. Friend of mine has an mp3 player that records amazingly... going to try to get me hands on that. It'* done it since I drilled out and gutted the airbox. Here'* what I came out with... you can't hear it, but it has a 30 mph downshift.



I think there'* a bad spark plug/plug wire. When the torque converter locks (on the past 3 transmissions), and you push the pedal down like half way... far enough to accelerate, but not to unlock TC, you can feel a slight... shall we say pulse?
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Uhhh...was that WOT from a stop? What gear ratio do you have? My 98 moved ALOT quicker than that and it was pretty neglected.

WOT, held on brake with quarter throttle before launch to get things going. I will have to crawl under there some time and check on the gear ratios...

Well... this looks like complete crap, but look what seafoam did:



I don't know... but it sure feels like a heck of a lot of difference. I also heard a tire squeek... slightly less than what I did earlier that left a white cloud lol. Transmission doesn't seem to be quite as sluggish anymore either, shifts a little harder, perhaps it needed broken in? Who knows... I'm a lot happier now though. It still needs a spark plug wire I think though... it still 'pulses' on heavy throttle with tc locked.

EDIT: Photobucket doesn't like the video, I'm going to try and change format and try again.

Well.. I broke it, nvm. I'll shoot a better video with a real camera and post later.