ok i'm having an issue it seems....

my car is a 89 rs with carb'd 305 and a 700r4

when i hammer on it and shift into second just screwing around it dies.... gets to about 1500-2k rpm and starts back up...
any ideas on wtf is goin on?

 

it could be a lack of fuel. draining the fuel bowl and running out right at the shift, when it dies it gives the pump time to recover.

 

what can i do to help that? bad fuel pump?

 

Is this the stock carb (quadrajet 4bbl)? If so, you might want to give it a rebuild and replace all of the vacuum lines going to and from it. I've rebuilt a couple of Holleys and as long as you take it one step at a time they aren't that bad to do, q-jets are kind of a mystery to me b/c the first thing i did was dump that and put a holley 4bbl on.

It could be a number of things, first ones that pop into my head are
1.) secondaries opening too soon, are they vacuum or mechanically operated?
2.) Accelerator pump cam could be worn down or broken
3.) Vacuum leak, sometimes you will lose a hose off of the base or side of the carb that will cause some funny things to happen

just some ideas to think about

 

hey thanks... yea its a stock q-jet.... they suck..
thanks

 

if you get on it for the same amount of time in a different gear does it do the same thing?

i would also check all of the vacuum lines for a leak.

 

yea it did it to me for the 2nd to 3rd shift...
but i noticed that everything shuts down i mean everything.
gauges bottom and all

 

oh, then that means it's probably electrical. do ALL the guages do it? tach, volts, coolant temp, radio?

 

yea but it dont have a radio so yea.... but other than that yes....

see i thought some sort of electrical. but not sure what