This is my first post on this site. I would appreciate any help that I could get on this issue. I am young and my budget is tight due to moving and newly wed.

I have had my 95 LT1 Trans Am for a while and I moved to Ok from Utah 2 weeks ago. I drove the car onto the flatbed trailer and had no problems. On the 1300 mi drive across the country, it got plenty of rain and wet road grime from the moving truck.

I got here and it would not start the next day. I got fed up with it after making sure it had gas and it did. The next day I decided to take it to the dealer since all my stuff is still packed and in storage. I got the service department and i tried it one more time. It started and it seemed to run great. Well, after it warms up a little (driving 5 mi or so) starts to hesitate at low rpm and if you rev it it wants to die. It is a 6 speed and if it were auto, i think it would die. No check engine either. Then, my first day of work, it wouldn't start again so I said, that is it and I took it in to service again after it started. Never did this till i moved.

They said it was a dist. problem and they it was going to be $889 to replace the whole dist., cap and rotor. Why does the dist. need to be replaced. I think it is acting like my 60's cars with a dist cap when wet?

yea those cars have optispark problems, if they get wet they are usually dead.

what to you mean by dead? needs to be dried out or replaced?

If replaced, the entire dist. or something else?

try z28.com they will know the specifics of those cars, or fbodyhideout, another online forum.

I'm not sure the specifics of those cars. But I'm pretty sure once those optisparks get wet, they are toast and a replacement is needed. People call them opti****s lol.

Check the air filter to be sure its not wet. Sometimes water blowing around will soak one, and being elevated on a trailer might have done that.