Hello, I bought a 1998 Corvette Automatic with 50k miles, 2 days of driving my trans is acting up? When I take off slowly it wont switch into second gear until around 4200 RPM, for me thats very high considering I am driving slow! Also, if I floor the car and give it gas all the way the RPMS jump up but it will not switch a gear it will just redline the car and wont go past 60 MPH, but if I take off slow it will go past a 100 MPH normaly but u can tell its strugling to get into gears? And I also noticed some times u have to hit the brake while driving for it to fall into the next gear it seems? Basicly the car is drivable, but it has hard time switching gears and it CANT BE FLOORED or it will redline the engine with out geting into the next gear! Also the trans fluid reads between 170-220 degrees on the dash when I look it up? When I bought the car every thing was normal, however the next day I drove it all day doing 160 MPH a few times, and kept flooring it a few times! I think thats what messed it up, but its a Vette its ment to be floored ones in a while! When I bought the car I checked all the fluids besides the trans fluid, since the trans fluid dipstick is under the car I was going to get the trans fluid flushed or checked on my next day off since I didnt know if it had any trans oil in there or if it needed to be flushed since the car was sitting in the garage for 4 years stored, but before I had the chance the trans started acting up 2 days after I bought it, I know it's beacause I kept flooring it for 2 days, but could this problem have accoured if there was not enough TRANS oil in there? What do I do, or what have I done? Any ideas will be appriciated, thank you!

 

You are probably going to get blasted for the 160 mph pulls here. No worries, I won't be an az$ about that.

I will say this though...sounds like your tranny is shot. If it turns out to be shot, get a nice built one from RPM. Because it is an automatic, go ahead and pick up a torque converter too, it will pep the car a nicely (has to be dialed in with a tune).

When you break things, it will cost.