ok so my i was driving my car today and it started hesitating/missing below 3k rpm like it was a couple weeks ago and it would barely idle. i thought maybe the plug wire was off again. i stopped and checked under the hood and everything looked normal so i just try to continue home. it progressively got worse and was stuttering pretty bad now. i slowed down to make a turn and when i tried to accelerate it wouldnt hardly at all and would go over about 3500 rpm. i went maybe 1/8 of a mile and it sputtered real bad and went dead. the first thing i did was check the ecu(pg7) and it was showing a code 8. the car wouldnt start back up except once and then just stuttered and died again. i had to get it towed home. so now for the question. what should i do to fix it? i searched but really couldnt find anything helpful. i think i've read somewhere that i should replace the distributor. do u think this would fix it? if so what dizzy should i buy? a zc or would just and 88-89 teg one work?

 

What motor do you have? DOHC ZC?

 

it's the dist. more than likely. mine did the exact same thing. you need to get the dist. that matches your ecu. code 8 is tdc position

 

yes i have a dohc zc sorry

 

it might be your crank sensor instead of the dizzy. something similar happened to me and that was the culprit. I was cruisin down the hiway with a friendly ol' cop following me at 130 whe my tach started instantaneously dropping a few thousand rpm and the engine would kick real bad b/c the computer runs off the same signal as the tach. after I checked all of the wiring including the spliced in sensor (my stock hf motor has the sensor built into the dizzy so I cut the wires and spliced 'em to the sensor on the exhaust cam) I came to the conclusion that it was the sensor. my zc ran after I replaced that and the only problem that I had after that was I overhauled my dizzy as part of troubleshooting and I crossed some plug wires. #dumbass-erg I was sooo pissed...