Hey everyone,

Just wanted to know if anyone can help pinpoint whats exactly wrong with my car. So about 75% of the time my 1996 integra GSR drives fine, except that the input shaft bearing on my transmission went bad and makes a bunch of noise when I let go of the clutch. At this point it still drove fine, shifted gears properly without any grinds/pops, idle was good and accelerated normal. Long story short, I thought the noise was the release bearing and went ahead and changed the clutch, flywheel, release bearing, etc and reattached the transmission. I also went ahead and changed some seals, spark plugs and the distributor(accidentally broke it). After I put everything back on, everything seemed fine besides the fact that I found out it wasn't the release bearing. BUT now the problem is 25% of the time when I drive, my car will decide it doesn't want to accelerate normal anymore. If I am in the city, the rpm will take forever to pass 3-3.5k rpm, and when I am on the highway it will take forever to pass 60mph.

I have tried researching this before but it seems though for everyone else, it happens 100% of the time. This problem only occurs for me SOMETIMES. I want to think it is just the transmission(which I plan to change once I find one since it seems like no one wants to sell their transmission), but this did not happen before. I am sure I attached the flywheel, clutch and pressure plate correctly also.

Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on what can be the culprit.

 

Seems like these issues are ignition related, maybe the ignitor, whether it is the oem ignition components failing or a new aftermarket ignition component not being up to spec, it seems to happen a lot.

 

You replace distributor, did you do anything else that is required to be done when replacing the distributor?

 

As in setting the ignition timing with a timing light, while in diagnostic mode?

 

I was thinking that was a possibility. I heard of some aftermarket distributors just not being up to par. Maybe I can find a my distributor and replace the internals. The teeth on my old distributor broke so that was the reason for buying a new one.

 

Not that I know of. Are you referring to checking the timing with a timing light?

 

Yea check your timing when replacing the distributor or moving it ect. Even just a tiny tiny bit off it will affect performance greatly when timing is not set to spec.

 

Check the ignition timing with a light, while the car is in diagnostic mode.