Took the gp out tonight to do some more tuning and see if the trans was still shifting better. It seemed to be running pretty good in the beginning of the night but it seemed as the night went on this got worse. The car started shifting horribly and sometimes not shifting at WOT or close to it. Then the O2's started locking in at 20, yes 20 during pe. The car also just started to have less and less power. But it was running great during normal driving. Since I was getting frustrated I parked it and cruised with a friend for a while. Later on I started the drive home. Once I was on interstate I decided to do some WOT scanning and log it for trouble shooting purposes. I did one run and it seemed to run pretty good and shift good, I was wondering what the hell. So I decided to do another run and the car just rev'd and didn't seem to pull good. I was doing about 80-90 mph and the car just flat out died out on me. The engine shut off and the lights, everything was dead. So there I was doing 70mph or so down interstate with no lights with very little moon light. I managed to see the solid white line on the side of the road enough to get the car pulled over and stopped. I got out and popped the hood and it smelled like burnt wires. I started wiggling wires everything seemed to be ok. I then went to pull the plastic cap off of the positive battery terminal and it arced. So I thought maybe the terminal corroded off. So I called my buddy Travis (kamper98) and let him know what happened. So he went and got is pickup and threw a batter in with tools and a tow rope. Once he got there I tried to take the positive terminal off and it didn't come off. It fell out of the terminal. After looking at it I realized that the terminal its self had melted and the lead all ran out. So Travis just gave me a tow home, probably 5 miles.
Anyways I hope nothing major happened and I hope this was the reason for the car acting stupid all night. Also I would have thought the car should have ran off of the alt. Anyone have an idea why it didn't? Also wanted to say thanks to Travis for helping me out. Called him at 11 and woke him up, and he has to get up at 6am for work. Probably didn't get him until 1:30, I guess I owe him now.
Sorry for the long read.
Originally Posted by silverbullet
. Hope the tranny shifts good, I am just going out to test it out. What happened is the positive battery cable was touching the from plog and it melted the wire and then I had a dead short to ground.
