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Intermittent cold start misfires

Own a 99 civic ex (d16y8) work car. Sees mostly high way miles 4x a week. When the car sits for a couple days and can sometimes struggle to start and then when it finally fires bogs/breaks up real bad until it reaches operating temperature. During this, you can definitely smell gas, almost as if its flooded. One warm, it runs perfectly.

Ive noticed this can happen when sitting for a few days, but can also occasionally happens after I fill up with gasoline the next time I go to start it.

Any ideas? Plus/wires have roughly 35k on them. Car had 263k on it. Possibly a ignition coil, distributor cap in general? Fuel pump purges fine. Dirt MAF? PGM-FI failing? Curious if anyone else has had a similar problem and what they did to fixIT.

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u/THEJimmiChanga — 18 hours ago

Running lean

Hello looking for any help im ki d of stumped and don't want to go into every detail here. Ill add a video and it mostlyshows scan tool data and how my engine shakes after revving it. This also happens when comming to a stop and my short term will even drop to 3% rich but since ive adjusted my throttle plate to stop sticking i've noticed less idle fluctuation and a good base idle and ive come to realize it could be my throttle body because it's 70mm paired with a sku k 2 i take but that would mean its been since i got the car months ago. Buy my engine idles rough and I don't thik that's the whole story. Stft increases to 35+ lean on the scan tool when accelerating under load but will drop to 0 when letting off the gas to cruise. Any help is much appreciated sorry for the rambling 🙏🙏 was going to add a video of my engine bay but only one video

u/Internal-Ebb8151 — 1 day ago

98 civic lean condition continued

Continuing the last post for a vid of tge engine, I don't know if I mentioned but its a p0170 fuel bank 1 code and p0171 running lean code after 2 hours of relearning. I did replace my Intake manifold gasket and check for vacuum leaks but no luck. A

u/Internal-Ebb8151 — 1 day ago
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What causing the bogging and what can I do

I just swapped the engine and it was bogging but I could get it to rev up but now I can’t get it to rev up at all without bogging.

u/OkAdministration2526 — 3 days ago

how cooked am i? d16y8

snapped a valve cover bolt and tried extracting but now it won’t sit properly in place and valve cover isn’t seated properly. (i did clean/ catch all the metal shavings) Still runs good just hate how the bolt doesn’t seat all the way. Is it still fixable or should i just replace the head ?

u/Jphx17 — 4 days ago
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Idle sure after engine swap

I just swapped from a d16y7 to a d16y8 manual because my engine went and it starts up just fine but the idle jumps up and down. I've checked for vacuum leaks and the iacv is new. It also bogs and stalls when you hit the throttle.

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u/Visible-Emu7426 — 5 days ago

Anyone know what might cause this?

Hey guys, I’m looking to buy a Del Sol and I found a clean one, no rust and no abuse. The only thing is that when it is pushed, after an hour approximately, the engine does this. Neither I or the owner know the cause of this. Has anyone seen anything like this?

Edit: I forgot to mention that it’s a ‘93 D16Z6

u/AdministrativeElk825 — 7 days ago

Dial pins

This kind of a dumb question but I recently took off the head of my d16y8 and no dial pins were there. Even when I pulled it out even for the rocker arms. The spare head I had I pulled out the dial pins on there like an idiot and threw them away. The head I pulled out ran strong without dial pins so are they really necessary? If so I’ll probably just buy them lol

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u/tbambam_ — 14 days ago