hey guys, i have a 98 civic ex coupe with I/H. It rained this morning and today after taking my finals i was headed to grab something to eat, cruising at like 50 mph, all of a sudden when i let go of the gas, it revved up to red line all by itself, i was like WTF? so when it almost hit red line, i immediatley shut off the car and put it in neutral, and i just rolled into the pep boys parking lot. when the car came to a complete stop i took out the key and then turned the car back on. it immediatley revved all the way to redline again. few minutes later turn the car on. went back to normal. told them what happened and they said it might be my intake? is this right or what is wrong?

cliff: cruising at 50 mph, let go of gas, car revved up to red line and wouldn't stop

 

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So do I.

 

there was a post a few days ago, same thing happened to another guys GF's car after he put a new intake on, and when he took it off, there was a cats toy ball stuck in the TB... you should check that... I would imagine something was in your intake

here's that thread...

 

how can it be your intake? ...i've never heard of a car doing this..anyone know whats up?

 

is it eve good to cruise at 50??? i think i read somewhere from honda that it should be around 60 plus. if not, YEA UR CAR IS A FREAK!

 

i'll do that right after work..thanks

but i do recall it happenking like 2 months ago..i didn't think anything of it cause it was like for 2 seconds.....

 

Possible throttle cable sticking/stuck??

 

Do you have floor mats?

 

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my thought's exactly

 

my friend had a similiar problem, he replaced his throttlebody and cable and problem solved

 

well check your throttle cable and make sure that ain't sticking. did it rev all the way up with out bogging

 

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thatz what i was thinking, too.. 96-98 civic driver side floormats had recall ..

the floor mats grabs gas pedal and accelearate it ....remove your floormat and drive it see if still does same thing....

i doubt it if that was intake...

 

I had a neon a few years back that did the same thing right after I installed a bored-out throttle body. Turns out after giving a little gas, something was interfering with the spring loaded piece the throttle cable connects to on the TB and it was jammed at WOT. I think I had to reroute some wires or hoses or something and it never happened again.

 

naw, i've been driving without floormats, and the people and pep boys said that its not my cable wasn't sticking or anything and yeah it accelrated without stumbling

 

dude, back in the day, b4 my license, i used to drive my car around my neighborhood . i decided to unleash the massive 1.6 non-vtec and the throttle stuck under my floormat. scariest thing when u dont know why ur bouncing off the rev limiter. i pooped my pants.

 

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thatz what i was thinking, too.. 96-98 civic driver side floormats had recall ..

the floor mats grabs gas pedal and accelearate it ....remove your floormat and drive it see if still does same thing....

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Hell I had that happen with some non honda floormats one time...right after I got them. Scared the bejezus out of me.

 

I can come and perform an exorcism on it if you would like, just fly me out there.

 

well..my folks say that if you got busy in your car!! your car are prone to have many problem!!

 

damn some freaky ****

 

Get a new throttle cable.

 

approx how much do those cost

 

floor mat... pedal gets stuck under it.... or throttle cable

 

Its your Cruise Control motor thats faulty the same **** happened to me in my old 98 EX coupe sold it after 2 yrs.... you might have my old car, is it black?

 

I would pull the throttle cable off and grease it..And clean the spring and cable lever at the TB with some WD-40 or something like that..take off the intake and open the TB manually and look for build up around the TB plate inside..IF you see some gunk..The hold open the TB and use a rag soaked with some carb cleaner and wipe it down as best as you can..Just some suggestions..Hope it helps.

Also you cable could be frayed and hanging on the liner that it goes though.

 

Oh and next time it does rev up or whatever see if you can put your foot behind the gas pedal and pull it up..If that stope if from reving and puts it back to normal then for sure it is something to do with the cable or maybe even the spring and lever at the TB..Just clean everything up.