Im throwing this out there to see if anyone is up their cargame. I have a '91 LS Integra. I recently had two instances where the car wouldnt start without any prior indication. Both instances were about a month in between. Both times, after a few minutes the car started and ran fine. My thinking was it just needed a tune-up, so I replaced the distributor cap, plugs, and wires. I left the rotor replacement out because I couldnt reach the retaining screw.

Upon starting the car after replacing those items, the car ran extremely poor, misfiring and such. It ran as if it were on 2 or 3 cylinders (which it probably was).

I performed this same operation on my '93 Accord just about a month ago with no problems to date so Im really baffled as to why this thing isnt running as it should.

I checked, and rechecked to make sure the wires coming from the distributor are indeed going to their respective sparkplugs, however I cant necessarily rule out that I didnt plug everything back where it should be.

My question is assuming the wiring is in the correct place, could a new cap with the old slightly burnt rotor cause the engine to run like ****, being that is ran fine before replacing the cap?

My second question is WTF? Does anyone know what might be happening, I obviously dont. Thanks! Sorry for the length of this message.

Kevlar

 

I think your initial problem may have been a fuel relay issue. Not 100% sure..

Now since the other issues arose after your "tune-up" It is possible that the spark plugs may have been gapped incorrectly or the wires might be plugged up wrong.

 

Check to see if your header is cracked, thats what happened to me. It was all shakey and almost about to stall all the time. Check it my friend!

 

Problem solved, it was just a crossing of 2 wires; I knew it was something simple but I couldve sworn that I connected everything in the correct order, I just didnt want to admit I mayve made a mistake. Thanks for feedback anyway.