Hey,

Ok my car (1989 Honda Civic Std.) has been acting very wierd. I know the bottom end needs a rebuild as it burns lots of oil, but this problem I cant figure out. When I am driving the car at speed it runs fine. When I stop at a stop light, it runs bad. When I start going again, the car will start to act like it just cant move. It misfires real bad and will barley move unless you downshift and floor it which is not good because it then does a burnout and I have a straight pipe which is loud. It only seems to start doing it after the car is warmed up. Any ideas? Thanks!

Simon

 

Sounds like a Throttle Position Sensor is messed up because your car can't seem to catch up to what you are trying to tell it to do (with the gas pedal) so it eventually figures it out (when you are at highway speeds) but when you stop and need to go again it can't react fast enough so you have to gun it to make it catch up. The TPS is on the throttle body, replace it with another throttle body and see if that fixes it.

 

Hey ok I will try that. Thanks!!