well ive ben out of town for about a week now an my car has just ben sitting there well before i left my car (civic ex d16) was running like a champ but i started it up 2day and it was running good until i turned it off when i turned it back on it was making a weird lawn mower noise i'm guessing it;s my spark plug wires but i'm not sure what du u guys think

 

i mest up on the title but its making a weird lawn mower noise like it's getting no power when i give it gas

 

can you describe your "lawn mower" noise in detail?

 

spark plug wires ok? pull plugs and check to see if anything went bad? theres a ton of things that it could be but those you can start with

 

ok like when i'm like starting to go it sounds just like a lawn mower until i gey to higher rpms

 

dont think its your sparkplugs!!!!!.....sounds like your exhaust manifold is cracked!

 

how bad is that, how much dous a new 1 coust

 

A header... a cheap one.. Ebay special. Never bought one, but maybe 100-150 bucks?? I dont know. A greddy ss 4-2-1 2-piece will run about 400 bucks. But DC or something else will do just fine. Or a stock replacement? Craigslist.com and search for one.

-Jason

 

cool ive ben wanting to buy headers n e ways

 

i have a DC 4-2-1 1 piece.. works great. it was 150-200 $

 

just incase check you spark plug caps, make sure water or anything else didnt get in if there was a bad seal, it happend to me once, and my car was sounding like a lawn mower and it was just over all bad i thought i f*ed something up bad.


Modified by blakh at 3:04 AM 8/8/2006

 

lol before you buy a new header.. check it out first.. that might now be your problem bro.. but yeah just check it first... lol..

 

very common for it to be an exhaust leak or my personal favorite - a spark plug wire has jumped off the plug. Makes your car sound bad *** when it runs on 3 cylinders. If you have a CEL as well, especially a blinking one - that'd be your problem.


Nathan

 

I doubt it's your header, but you can check. It might just be a bad tank of gas. (I'm assuming it's sputtering/popping)

Check to make sure your plugs are screwed in, then run that tank out & then fill it up. If that doesn't fix it get a new set of plugs.

Start with the easy & cheap stuff first.

 

Gas wont go bad in 1 week. You're prolly throing a cell, check your plugs, make sure they're calibrated right too.

 

maybe you blew a hole in the block? lol like threw a rod through and now you're working on 3 cylinders....how do you expect us to help you if we dont know EXACTLY what you mean