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Domestic Disturbance
04-29-2013, 10:25 PM
I guess honda and low power go hand in hand, but I am having some running issues with my civic. It has had a small miss at low rpm's for a while. A week ago I put a new cap and rotor on it and it seemed to go away. Car ran like a top. Next day it starts doing it again. Now it seems to be getting worse, even idling funny. Anything above 4k rpm's and its not an issue. It has 2 year old ngk plugs/wires on it. I can't tell if its a miss fire or another issue, possibly fuel related.

Does this sound like the distributor might be going bad, being an internal coil and all? Possibly a fuel pump or regulator? The car has 193k on it. 96 1.6L i4.

Domestic Disturbance
04-29-2013, 10:25 PM
and no, its not my vtec kicking in haha. Its non vtec

JacobS
04-30-2013, 02:40 AM
doesnt sound like a fuel issue to me. id probably just swap out the plugs and wires.

SaNdMaNsSi
04-30-2013, 08:19 AM
It probably has AIDS.

Domestic Disturbance
04-30-2013, 03:45 PM
plugs wires are 2 years old. Plugs are still clean

Mike@Salkowski-Motorsport
04-30-2013, 04:31 PM
Check the coil

Sleeping
04-30-2013, 07:45 PM
Try doing a valve adjustment

Larsons Fox
04-30-2013, 11:12 PM
Plug wires, check for oil in the distributor, oil in spark plug holes, and maybe a compression test to see if you have any burnt valves.

snickerlicker
05-01-2013, 01:15 PM
Definitely driver error, certainly..

slow ride
05-01-2013, 01:36 PM
feed the hamster under the hood

Domestic Disturbance
05-02-2013, 12:39 AM
feed the hamster under the hood

It feels like that sometimes

BGjohnson
05-02-2013, 10:38 AM
You could have a crack in disty, allowing spark to travel to ground. If you do get a new disty, get an oem one. Aftermarket units don't work.