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Old Jan 18, 2010 | 02:16 PM
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My cousins 03 RSX chokes occassionally. He swapped in new spark plugs yesterday but it still did the same thing again today. Any ideas? Timing off? it's never been adjusted since he bought it. bad yes i know but he's not a mechanic type of guy. Anyone else with this issue?
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Old Jan 18, 2010 | 04:03 PM
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Bump cause i need answers!
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 02:11 AM
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Bump cause i need answers!
if you need answers that badly, take it to a mechanic.
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 06:07 AM
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it could be a number of things with what you are descibing but i would take it to someone like sicky has said
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 07:27 AM
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Choking on what... ewwww

Seriously though, more info is needed to even have us guess on what could be the problem. Also, maybe a more specific description of what happens to the car besides "choking".
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 07:47 AM
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Understood fellas. Basically when the car is at a stoplight or stop sign sometimes it will just drop in idle from 700rpm to 0 and die out. It's speratic and doesn't happen everytime but to kill the sarcasm, no my cousin is not letting off the clutch all the way when he's at a complete stop. Again spark plugs were swapped on saturday and they were super white and coroded (running hot). Since it's a k20 i heard you can't manually adjust your timing like a b-series motor. Just fishing for a few pointers. I'm a D and B-series guy and never touched a K-series til saturday so pardon my idiotic approach if i'm coming off that way to you guys.
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 12:28 PM
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bump!
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 12:54 PM
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What are the mods on the car?
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Old Jan 21, 2010 | 01:30 AM
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Understood fellas. Basically when the car is at a stoplight or stop sign sometimes it will just drop in idle from 700rpm to 0 and die out. It's speratic and doesn't happen everytime but to kill the sarcasm, no my cousin is not letting off the clutch all the way when he's at a complete stop. Again spark plugs were swapped on saturday and they were super white and coroded (running hot). Since it's a k20 i heard you can't manually adjust your timing like a b-series motor. Just fishing for a few pointers. I'm a D and B-series guy and never touched a K-series til saturday so pardon my idiotic approach if i'm coming off that way to you guys.
If it's sporadic, as you say, it will not be a timing issue. It could be a number of things, and to me sounds like a wiring gremlin. As stated earlier, get the car to a shop so they can diagnose the issue.
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 11:49 AM
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What are the mods on the car?
Car's bone stock. No mods besides a k&n filter.
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