I replaced the cap, rotor, plugs, and wires already, I have a ck eng light on...the car is missing pretty good, sounds like it running off 3cylinders. I have no clue where the diagnostics port is on the car, and do not know how to ck why the engine light is on.

The motor won't rev passed 3500 at all, falls flat on its face if driving...car is a 5spd if that matters

Any advice would be appreciated

 

pull down the carpet on the passenger side. If your check engine light is on then you will see a red flashing light comin from the ECU. Count how many times the light flashes and report back

 

Light flashed 8 times

 

8 TDC - top dead center sensor
sounds like its time for a new dizzy. Try reseting your ecu and see if it still throws the code

 

where is the TDC sensor located?

Already reset ecu, same thing...

wtf is a dizzy???

 

oops sorry.. your distributor lol

 

I don't know what that is?

EDIT: Oh ok...replace the sensor or whole "dizzy"?


Modified by dsnyder78 at 12:46 AM 9/11/2007

 

mine did that when i had the wire's messed up you should try that just to double check
and a nother time when it sounded similar i had a bad injector try disconecting your injector if nothing happens disconect the next one on mine it was the top injector so that also might be a thing to look at

 

I would first have you timing checked out and make sure there are no loose connections in the dizzy wiring. If all else fails, it would be easier to just pick up a new dizzy or go to the junkyard.

 

Might be a possibility with the wires, since I just copied the way they were on before, and the plugs were nasty black....so firing order might be messed up...

thanks guys for all the input, I will get back on here to post the progress...

Anybody have the firing order off the top of their heads


Modified by dsnyder78 at 1:10 AM 9/11/2007

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=858481
Learn to search some more and HT will not hate you!
make sure u check the plug on the dizzy to look for loose connections

 

this is how it is on mine good luck let us know if you fix it

supposedly its 1-4-3-2 but that didnt work on mine on mine its well 1-3-4-2

 

i recently did an ls swap into an 1990 crx si...had exact same problem....turns out that it was the dizzy...rotor cap won't do the trick...we tried that!...i kno that this is about a Dseries...but should be the same

 

Firing order was not the issue...

How do I figure out if this motor is the 1.6 or the 1.5?

Are all D series "dizzy's" the same?

Thanks

 

You can tell by looking at the engine code on the block ( circled in red)

i believe your car has a d15 in it
The Si's and 4 door ex civics had the d16 in them

 

just look for a code stamped near the mounting area on the distributor.

if its a 1.5 the code should read "TD-01U" and i think for a 1.6 its "TD-02U".