hey guys i have a crx with sohc zc non-vtec. i thought i had it timed the other dayand it turns out there is somthing else wrong with it. i left in first gear and it took me a min no joke to get to 3 grand. it is like that in every gear. so i turned around and came home, well on the may back home my feet felt hot. i got into my driveway and looked under the car and my cat is glowing red. i have not a clue what is wrong with it. i dont know if any of you guys have had this problem but just looking for some pointers on how i could fix it.

thanx's

 

get a new cat or punch it out cats clogged

 

Glowing cat is due to way too much unburned fuel. Look for mis-routed ignition wires, loose rotor in the cap, mis-timed engine, leaking injectors, etc.

 

i suggest you find out whats wrong.. theres something thats clogging your cat... are u running rich.. any oil leaks or coolant... get a new cat ones thats fixed

 

time for a test pipe and a new cat for inspection time.

 

Distributor.

 

Dont punch your cat out.

check to see if your intake manifold gasket is leaking.

 

are you getting a cel light

 

Wow there's alot of random **** going on in here. My first course of action would be too pull the cat off and see if the honeycomb inside is ok. If you see globs of metal hanging down, or it just looks like ****, time to replace.

The fact that it took so long to rev up makes me think it is seriously clogged, and getting overheated.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tippyman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow there's alot of random **** going on in here. My first course of action would be too pull the cat off and see if the honeycomb inside is ok. If you see globs of metal hanging down, or it just looks like ****, time to replace.

The fact that it took so long to rev up makes me think it is seriously clogged, and getting overheated.</TD></TR></TABLE>

A glowing cat is typical of everything that he ^ is talking about. Time to take it off for inspection.

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Huh?

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WTF?

 

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WTF?

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That's what I was thinking when I stepped into this thread, lol.

 

i say check ur cat too aswell....my teg was like that ..i changed da dizzy...still same problem...(but i never check da cat cauze it was new) den i was thinking the header...(so low it smashed the header sumwat flat)..so i deciede to take it off. as i did...i looked at my cat i was like WTF??? took it off and look at it....**** was broken. put my test pip on...and it ran just like b4

 

do you not have a T on your keyboard?^^

anyways.. this seems really obvious that its the cat.. dont konw whats up with the other comments.

 

the leaking intake gasket I can understand(if the motor is running lean it would get super hot), the idle would be high though. its most likely the cat itself

 

A messed dizzy will expletive up your fuel, hence making the cat glow red.

 

did u get water in the dizzy? thats wut happened to my friend when he washed his engine bay n forgot to cover the dizzy wit a bag

 

its not the dizzy or the intake manifold , the cat is clogged end of story

 

OK in order to have THAT much extra fuel to make your cat glow RED your car probably wouldnt even run the cat is messed up all you have to do to check it is just unbolt the exhaust manifold side of the cat and run it if the problem is fixed then you know it was your cat.

 

My dizzy was pooched and my cat was glowing very brightly. Put a new dizzy and and problem solved.

 

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You can state the same thing as many times as you would like until I actually see something like that with my own eyes I wont beleive it. I have dealt with pretty much EVERY problem with a honda in the 10 plus years I have owned and worked on them and I have NEVER had that kind of an issue running rich or lean.

 

hey guys i pulled the cat off and tryed to drive it and is still ran like **** it still takes for ever to get going i checked the timing and it looks like it is on to me other then that i am lost with this problem

 

you need to install a test pipe or resonator or something because with out a little back pressure you car will have no torque and still drive like poo.

 

ok i had a similar problem in my hatch. its too long to try to explain why it happened but basically the head gasket was leaking and the cyilnders were getting oil and coolant into them. before i know this i took it for a drive. the cat was soo clogged from the crap that it actually lit on fire, i swear to god. i gutted the cat and it fixed that problem. as for the car not revving right, i figured out that the distributor (whover wrote dizzy is a moron) wasn't spinning right. not sure why but once i replaced that the car revved like normal and its been happy days ever since. try replacing the cap and rotor and then make sure all 4 cylinders are firing. if you still have the prob the next step is the whole distributor.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ef_for_life &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey guys i have a crx with sohc zc non-vtec. i thought i had it timed the other dayand it turns out there is somthing else wrong with it. i left in first gear and it took me a min no joke to get to 3 grand. it is like that in every gear. so i turned around and came home, well on the may back home my feet felt hot. i got into my driveway and looked under the car and my cat is glowing red. i have not a clue what is wrong with it. i dont know if any of you guys have had this problem but just looking for some pointers on how i could fix it.

thanx's</TD></TR></TABLE>

Im sure the fact that you were messing with your timing has something to do with it. If your getting too much unburnt fuel and **** in your header, its going to clog up your cat. Fix the problem and replace the cat if its clogged.

Good luck.

 

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