hey everyone, my name's sammy, or sam...came on here because i recently bought my friends 98 civic for a great deal and i.love.my.car. buuut she did not, only in the sense that she didnt plan to make it any better than it was (it was a lot newer and more well-maintained when she bought it 4 years prior to me buying it from her about 10 months ago. oh yeah, so i came on here because im certainly not car savvy, but my dad is and i want to be. theres so many things i want to do/know but cant be up his butt like that, and he lives far enough that eventually the ride there and back so often would kick any car out of the game. and now im rambling

 

lol its all good most of us here just ramble on and on but welcome to the forum and got some pics

 

What are your plans for it? I could help ya out . PM me if you need some recommendations or advice!

 

well first i want to get it running the best that i can so far i have changes plugs, wires, dist. cap, rotar, ignition coil, regular oil changes, cleaned throttle body(want to clean the sensors) just recently changed the trans fluid, and coolant. i also treated the trans, and oil with lucas products. and i used the fuel injector solution twice also. the car has been sluggish though, before it warms up its usually fine (going to work) but later when its already warm outside it starts out okay, but once i come to a stop and then go situation,it doesnt want to seem to accelerate, sometimes it will sort of okay, then when i reach 50mph it reeeeally doesnt want to go any faster it just makes a low hum. i bought a multimeter and followed the steps on troubleshootmycar.com to text the tps sensor and the map sensor. most of it checked out fine im just not sure of 2 things. the tps was at .5v like it should, and an open throttle was at 4.9 should be 5? doesnt seem significant enough to matter. so when i slowly opened the throttle it crept up slowly the way it should untill it went from 1.9 to 2.0, it didnt necessarily skip but read "1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 0.0, 2.0, 2.1" and so on. so idk if that saying 0.0 was considered a skip. if so then i will replace it. and for the map sensor all checked out but when i tested the ground it read 11.3v instead of 12, again not sure if it is significant enough to matter. and ideasbwould be greatly appreciated

 

lol, i dont have any but can and will take some. right now its a rusty hunk of junk with a clear coat peeling off the hood. most of the rust is on the back panels around the tires :/ work in progress lol just bought all the stuff for it just havent gotten to it yet :D