Lost Horsepower

[edubs]

Hey Everyone,

Recently, my 2002 Civic has been feeling very sluggish like not getting up to speed as quickly as it used to. I know I've been loosing horsepower over the years so I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to restore the horsepower that I've lost. I've been thinking about using the BG 44K to see if it will help a little. Any thoughts on this? And any other thoughts how to restore horsepower?

 

[emerican]

last full tune up? plugs wires ait filter fuel filter, oil change etc
have you eve ran any treatment thru it seafoam?
any cel?
any other probems with the car

 

[edubs]

Last month. Did the oil and replaces filters
Never did any seafoam treatment. I heard that stuff is very aggressive on your engine and can burn oil.
What's cel?
And no other problems.

 

[emerican]

CEL= check engine ligjht
you dont have to use seafoam you can use gumout or some of the others
did you replace the plugs wires etc?

 

[edubs]

No engine light
Have you ever tried that bg 44k stuff? or heard any reviews from it?
Replaced the plugs a few years ago, not the wires

 

[EJackBauer8]

Ive heard good things about bg 44k, but never tried I want to though.

 

[emerican]

if you never replaced the wires and the plugs are years old id defintly change them

 

[emerican]

heard good reviews from a few people but have never personally tried it

 

[edubs]

I've also heard of something called compression restore. Something you pore into the oil and is suppose to restore lost compression over the years. Any thoughts?

 

[emerican]

i wouldnt trust anything being put in my oil that i didnt know everything about, but thats just me

 

[hondamaster719]

+1. Lot of stuff on the market are scams.. bg 44k is great stuff. When you take your car for a injector cleaning and get charged 80 bucks, all they do is pour that into your gas tank and it runs way better. Smokes for a few days but its great stuff.

 

[lethal6]

+1. Lot of stuff on the market are scams.. bg 44k is great stuff. When you take your car for a injector cleaning and get charged 80 bucks, all they do is pour that into your gas tank and it runs way better. Smokes for a few days but its great stuff.

I have been using 44k in my cars for over 10 years now and NEVER had it smoke. Also run it in every K service [15k, 30k, 45k, etc] in cars here at work and NEVER had them smoke either. I can't even imaging the conversation I would have to have if that were the case. We put it in average 3 cars a week here.

 

[hondamaster719]

I've only seen it smoke once because the was sitting for 2 years.

 

[00siboy]

+1. Lot of stuff on the market are scams.. bg 44k is great stuff. When you take your car for a injector cleaning and get charged 80 bucks, all they do is pour that into your gas tank and it runs way better. Smokes for a few days but its great stuff.

I use 44K at work all the time, and IMO any BG products are good for me. When we do an injection cleaning we acutally use 2 different products, a tank additive (44K) and also a fuel injector cleaner fed straight to the fuel rail.

OP like emerican said I would make sure your plugs are good. The 1.7L has coil-ons so no wires to replace. Other than that I guess you could do a compression test if possible.