What would cause this bogging?
07-20-2006, 06:46 PM
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What would cause this bogging?
When I'm accelerating, the car feels like it's bogging and misfiring. Even if I hold the accelerator steady and am going easy on the car.
I've replaced ignition coil, dizzy cap/rotor, plugs, wires, fuel filter.
Sometimes when it's hot the car will have a hard time starting. It'll spin over for a few seconds then slowly sputter to life. There have been 3 times in the past year when while doing this it would get a CEL for random misfire in cylinders 1 & 2.
Eventually the car gets to the point where it jerks so bad people riding along notice it, then I replace the spark plugs and it seems to remedy it slightly for a few months.
Timing is good.
The problem seems to be worse as the car heats up but I'm not 100% sure if it is. After a few months the misfiring gets to the point where the car jerks randomly while accelerating.
I have a turbo kit practically ready to go on, but I'd like to solve this problem.
It's a 1997 Civic EX D16Y8 that is completely stock.
Modified by Jorsher at 7:16 AM 7/21/2006
I've replaced ignition coil, dizzy cap/rotor, plugs, wires, fuel filter.
Sometimes when it's hot the car will have a hard time starting. It'll spin over for a few seconds then slowly sputter to life. There have been 3 times in the past year when while doing this it would get a CEL for random misfire in cylinders 1 & 2.
Eventually the car gets to the point where it jerks so bad people riding along notice it, then I replace the spark plugs and it seems to remedy it slightly for a few months.
Timing is good.
The problem seems to be worse as the car heats up but I'm not 100% sure if it is. After a few months the misfiring gets to the point where the car jerks randomly while accelerating.
I have a turbo kit practically ready to go on, but I'd like to solve this problem.
It's a 1997 Civic EX D16Y8 that is completely stock.
Modified by Jorsher at 7:16 AM 7/21/2006
07-20-2006, 07:14 PM
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Re: What would cause this bogging? (Jorsher)
try moving ur distributor while cheking with the timing light. If u don' t have a light, just move it and drive around, and do it again till it drives fine. Its like a trial and error
07-21-2006, 04:31 AM
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Re: What would cause this bogging? (kr)
my car was doing the exact same thing for a while... check the coil in the distributor... thats what fixed it for me... hope this helps 
07-21-2006, 05:30 AM
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Yeah, but like I said, I replaced the coil.
Think maybe the distributor is just going bad? I've replaced the cap/rotor/coil so don't know what else to try.
Think maybe the distributor is just going bad? I've replaced the cap/rotor/coil so don't know what else to try.
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Yeah I thought it might be a dizzy but I don't have the money to "try" a dizzy to see if they'd fix the problem. I have a wideband to buy 
I'd rather get some second opinions before trying something else. The dizzy coil was $80
I'd rather get some second opinions before trying something else. The dizzy coil was $80
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