i woke up in a hury, let the car warm up, and left my friends house. As i was driving, the guy behind me was riding my ***, so I got on it in 2nd. As i went through neutral slowly the rpm never came back down and contuined to bounce off the redline. I shut the car down and coast it down to a parking lot. What in the world would cause this.
-when i start car it heads for redline
-the throttle cable is fine
-what could the problem be?
-since i was tired I called a friend not thinking about much
Could the throttle have stayed open while throttle cable is still in normal position.

please help, i would like to fix car without having to tow, I have no money.

B16a1 in 90 hatch

thanks alot Justin

 

bump please

 

check the butterfly on the TB... it may be stuck open when the cable itself is fine...

 

that was my thought....get some carb cleaner and spray it in there...

 

does it run ok now? any other problems that you have had lately?

Blaze

 

Good advice. A lot of things could cause your problem, but the butterfly seems to be the most likely cause.

 

you can also check your tps voltage to verify even if the throttle plate is in the right position.

 

i know this sounds obvious, but the floormat could be the culprit.
nuked a 5.0 that way, actually shortened 3 pushrods.

 

car is fixed, like i said i am stupid, my JG VictorX mani lost a maifold plug the great big one on the right side making a huge leak causing high rpm. It is was not tight enough and it vibrated out i guess.
the thing that sucks is, not only does my car feel slugicious which might mean that i hurt something in the head. but my friend that was running me around to get parts totaled his car following me to his house.

Justin

 

Shoot, you must be kind of sad for him. That sucks.

Jay

 

my friend had a similar problem with his crx dohc ZC... those damn aftermarket pedal screws would stick into the floormat... his tb butterfly would also get stuck as a result of not greasing it time to time... *didnt know you had to grease them but hey its metal, and i guess the throttle was wide open so much ( ) it just ended up sticking there after a while...