Another Interesting Engine Mystery

["Jason Slaten" <jasonslaten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i inadvertently delete the response u gave for this msg..could u please tell 
me what it was that u did to correct this problem

>From: "Brad Hogg" <bhogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>To: "IML" <Mailing-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: IML: Another Interesting Engine Mystery
>Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 11:41:03 -0600
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>As long as we are sharing our various engine mysteries, here is mine...
>
>I drive a 1978 with a 400 and when the temperature gets down close to
>freezing, it exhibits the following.  If you start the engine cold (and it
>gets started cold every time because it has no block heaters) it starts 
>VERY
>well, runs for about 10 to 20 seconds (this time decreases as temperature
>falls), and then it seems to begin missing on one cylinder and slowly goes
>into this "woomp, woomp, woomp" mode.  If the temperature isn't all that
>cold, the engine will eventually straighten out and run fine.  If it is
>colder, the engine will eventually die.  This is the strange part.
>Regardless of the outside temperature, if I start the car, let it go into
>it's "woomp, woomp" routine, and head off down the street, it will miss 
>like
>that all the way up until the point where the transmission shifts into
>second gear.  The instant it shifts, the engine runs perfectly and it will
>do so from that point on, regardless of what gear the transmission is in.
>
>Any clues?
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