last night i was driving home and it felt like my 89 civic wasnt getting any gas.
i coouldnt accelerate at all but my car was still running. i think it might be the fuel filter but i dont know. can anyone help me?

 

There's a possibility there's water in the fuel line. My 91 had the same problem last winter. The lines froze over. There's three lines and it's quite possible they got watered-up. Run...snap, forgot what it's called...but you can pick it up at like walmart and you just put it with gas and work it til it runs through the lines. Try that?

**Cheap fix

 

could also just be a clogged fuel filter. change filter and run some injector cleaner in your next tank

 

Could also be a clogged cat..
But yeah try the fuel cleaner stuff..Lucas seems to work nice..

 

Does the ECU throw any codes?

 

could be fuel filter, stuck throttle body, tbs, alot of things. Look and see if your throttle body is working right, then check the fuel filter. The water remover stuff JokerTypeR was talking about is called HEET (or theres one called that thats real popular).

 

Heet is the stuff. I have a little doubt on the throttle body. I may be wrong. But yeah, I didn't even think of the injectors. They may just be going bad altogether, but obviously shoot for the cheaper way of cleaning them first.

 

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i coouldnt accelerate at all but my car was still running. i think it might be the fuel filter but i dont know. can anyone help me?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Sounds like something my '90 STD was doing the past week. I took it to the shop and they performed an induction cleaning service using products from these guys:
http://www.kemopro.com/productinfo/fuel.html
Anyway, the shop I go to was actually composed of guys from Arrowwood Acura, the first Acura dealership in San Antonio. When another dealership bought them out - they were a chain - the guys from Arrowwood started their own shop. Anyhow, they said to run a whole gas tank and things should improve to the point where it's not acting up anymore.
Oh, and have the fuel filter changed if it hasn't been done.