Wuts up guys about a week ago i was driving and hit a decently big puddle at a good rate of speed,long story short i thought i had wet my distributor becuase the puddle was on the passenger side as is the dizzy. With the old dizzy on the car started when it wanted to and ran like dog **** at low rpms. i ordered my new dizzy thinking the old one was wet and it came yesterday.It was put on, the timing is on, im getting fuel, i changed the plugs and yes im getting spark, im running out of ideas on what could've got wet or ruined and im leading to think this problem is electrical. So all you guys that know the sensor and electrical parts good please gimme an idea or two. Btw the car is a 97 ex coupe and i have an 00 gsr thats obd2a if that helps

 

Maybe you got water in your intake filter or something?

 

I have the same car as you (97 civic ex)
and I'm pretty positive that it tough to short anything out
"hitting a puddle".
I drove through 1 1/2 feet of water for several hundred feet, all seals
were perfect, all elec. perfect. Only thing that happened was water got
into the a/c compressor bearing.
Do you have an aftermarket intake?

 

Where is your air filter located? Its possible that it may have sucked some water into your motor.

 

pull off the distributor cap and dry out the distributor and cap area.

 

its a short ram intake and no i did not hydrolock the motor becuase it was started after this happend it just doesnt start a few days after it all happend

 

and i tried trying out my dizzy that didnt work so i bought a new one

 

Hey man if u have a cold air intake there is a good chance that u hydro locked ur motor. U sucked water into the motor and it froze. So my best bet is to rebuild or replace.

 

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read the thread before you post your .02 noob. He has a short ram intake and did not hydrolock his motor.

 

thank u, it doesnt seem liek people read the thread before they post.im gonna say it again I DID NOT HYDROLOCK MY MOTOR.

 

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read the thread before you post your .02 noob. He has a short ram intake and did not hydrolock his motor. </TD></TR></TABLE>LOL!

 

did it ever work with the new dizzy?
did you hook everything back up correctly?
is it the right dizzy?
do you know if youre getting voltage to it?

 

water maybe have enter the head too..

 

its the right dizzy and no it hasnt ran since the new ones been on, i also tried using the old one again, im leading to think it has nothing to with the dizzy but instead might have wet or ruined a sensor that night

 

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please explain this one


have you checked all the connections on that side of motor? Grounds? starter wires? Battery? It could be something very simple. I ran my em through a puddle one time and my car stalled on me. I thought it was FACKED and I have a CAI. I let it sit for a little, it started and ran like poop all the way home. I let it sit for couple days and BAM everything is A OK.

 

yah but are you throwing any cel's? and also, you might wanna check the spark plug wires or any connections to and from the dizzy

 

yeah dude the grounds r straight, the battery is good and i had it charging just to double check, im not running a crank sensor due to the jdm p72 im running and other then that everythings in tact and mechanically normal

 

verify CEL is doing the bulb check, do you have 12 volts to the black/yellow wire going to the dizzy please.

 

i cant check right now but ill post wen i kno

 

My ek hatch also ran like **** espcially in low rpms made it seem like it was stalling, i just let it sit for about a day and its fine now, btw wat exactly is HYDROLOCK?

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolock