5th gen no acceleration / no power - Honda Prelude Forum

98txlude · 03-25-2011, 07:47 PM

Started the car today, backed out of driveway and put it in drive and the car had no acceleration.
Syptoms.....low idle (about 300rpm), cant rev past 1k rpm with pedal to the floor. Upon restart, with pedal to the floor will rev to 3k rpm, drop down to about 300rpm rapidly and just stay there.
This is a bone stock 134k mile car. Just had the 60k service done 5k ago (all tune up parts and timing parts replaced). Throwing an egr code only, too.
Any advice would help.

Kronn 98SH · 03-28-2011, 06:16 AM

Oops, you bought a Sissy-stick.

nvroutgund · 03-31-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by 98txlude

Started the car today, backed out of driveway and put it in drive and the car had no acceleration.
Syptoms.....low idle (about 300rpm), cant rev past 1k rpm with pedal to the floor. Upon restart, with pedal to the floor will rev to 3k rpm, drop down to about 300rpm rapidly and just stay there.
This is a bone stock 134k mile car. Just had the 60k service done 5k ago (all tune up parts and timing parts replaced). Throwing an egr code only, too.
Any advice would help.

Sounds exactly like what happened to me and my SS auto, when the transmission died. I had to spend about $1500 to rebuild it.

98txlude · 04-01-2011, 06:56 AM

i found out that i was also throwing a code 8. cleaned the cap and rotor. reset the computer and now everything is running as it should.........maybe a bad cam sensor or distributor.