the kickdown works on this car. sometimes, it feels as though second gear is stronger than first!

you can push the button under the pedal and then just wait and hold up traffic and hear people honk and flash their lights.

it really does take from 5-7 seconds to start going, and all it does in that time is crawl with the engine idling.

this doesnt always happen, though! and it is usually when the car is warm, as opposed to cold.

sometimes i feel as though the car gets "tired" thats the only way i can describe it really. it runs great, but wont roll. it shifts fine i wouldnt think its a transmission problem, but ive been wrong before! would the torque converter be slipping that badly? my dads ram truck just needed one and to think about it, it did sort of show the same symptoms! wouldnt it do it alot more if it were the torque convertor? i know when i ran it out of gas the first day i had it(the tank screen was plugged and the gauge sender was full of yuck too so it registered 1/4 tank at empty) it exhibited the same symptoms of an air cooled vw burning a valve and dying a quiet death. heh heh

ill eagerly be awaiting youalls torque converter stories. i greased the linkages and that didnt help, btw