Dear Honda-Tech....

I am at a point of utter confusion with my CRX(OBD1 GSR swapped, 1991 CRX HF) this week. The car has been running great for months with no issues at all, but this past week has left me with a problem that I have no idea on what to fix or even what to look at. So I come to you Looking for answers.

Here is the situation. After driving my CRX for a period of time a half an hour or so (as soon as it warms up basically), the car develops a Random stutter from 5,000 to 7,500RPM. It isn't a straight power cut but the car sounds like its bogging, and you can feel it going slower . It feels like it will dip in and out of this odd noise/feeling while in the said RPM range. It is not a solid all the time weird sounding power loss, it seems to flicker in and out of the normal power while in vtec. I have no idea what is causing it, to me it feels like a spark issue. But who knows. Its hard for me to explain what it does, but like I said it keeps accelerating but you feel it loose power, and it develops an odd noise.

Here is what I have checked so far.
Oil level
vtec solinoid screens
vtec pressure switch
Oil change
Timing
Compression -230 across the board
Plugs and Wires
distributor
fuel pump

Thanks for your input.

Reference picture of the car. (Yep I felt like being a *****)







the noise in the video that sounds like wind is the car acting up, this is a very minor example of what it does. Its usually much more dramatic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkSd_TIQcE

 

no help?

 

I would be all over the distributor. Mine did something very simular.

It turned out to be that the screw holding the Rotor on fell out and was bouncing around inside the dizzy messing everthing up.
I was lucky to find it before it got past the cap and rotor prongs.

Also are your plugs and wire old?

 

Hmm. I just replaced the distributor and still have the problem.

 

I would say dizzy first..if you just replaced it..have you looked at your spark plugs?

my boosted crx goes through ngk supra plugs a lot and when it makes the sputtering noise just like that..i know its in need of a new spark.

 

hav eyou find the problem to this issue? and fix your problem? need help mines the same way. i'll post my video up today when i have the chance. thanks if you can help.