Ok guys. I am new here and I will be making a hello thread here soon.

I picked this 93 ex up from a buddy... He's had it for a few years and it's rough...

One day he was driving and the car all of a sudden died.( no spark)

He replaced the distributor with a NON vtec one, and the car fired up but ran like the timing was off. We've redone the timing and all is well but the car still runs the same. Even re-installed the distrubitor a few times per the " book" To no luck...
Now if you rotate the distributor about half way between the 3 mounting points it seems to run and rev better. Of course we can't drive it this way because there is nothing holding the distributor in place.


Could the non Vtec distributor be causing this?

Help me out please guys! cars been running like this for the past 2.5 years. It's just ***** slow and bogs alot...

Still gets 35+ mpg. But man this thing is annoyingly SLOW!!!

EVERY STOP LIGHT and I mean EVERY, the car gets honked at for being so slow!

 

I'm almost certain the distributor is the same VTEC or not. You aren't getting any codes? If you still have the old one you could switch the coil out, usually a sudden death on the road is the coil going bad.

Check the cam timing. Timing belt may have slipped (if it has, replace it immediately with a new one). When you're setting the spark timing, you are jumping the test jumper, right?

 

I agree. The timing belt has almost certainly skipped a tooth, throwing the mechanical timing off. Don't drive the car until this problem has been fixed.

 

Is there any way you can confirm this? All 3 mounting bolts are bolted in but like I said before if you twist it about half way between all the bolts it seems to run better.

 

Check the mechanical timing.