Here are the specifics. My car has a 1989 tpi l98 out of a corvette in it with an automatic. I have a 1985 corvette chip in the computer. It has a mild cam and 24lbs injectors, bigger throttle body on it. I have put a aluminum water pump and aluminum radiator and new electric fan in it. Used to have heating problems. I just installed a new module in the distributor also. I took a drive yesterday for 30 miles at 80 mph and no problems. Turned around and headed home and ran it up to 130 a couple times and when I pulled into town it started missing and backfiring a little bit. Had to keep playing with the throttle to keep it running. And then it died. Let it sit for 2 hours and went and started it up and runs perfect again. Anyone have any ideas?

 

sure sounds like that new ignition module is bad.

 

That is exactly what my father said. I might just see if I can find a whole distributor for it. Or maybe just buy a good module. The one I put in there was from carquest. Anyone know where I can get a quality one?

 

I ordered an accel one from summit racing. Let me know if you have any other ideas about my problem.

 

coil is the only other thing i can think of that can, when going, lose power when heated up.

 

Two times I've had a coil go dead on me only after it got hot. Put an ice pack on the distributor next time it goes dead and see if that speeds up the recovery time.

 

Just ordered a hypertech coil and cap kit. I had a accel supercoil on it, but I suppose they can go bad too. Also ordered an stage 2 corvette chip for it.