Hey guys. I'm new to the forum, so please excuse me if I make any errors/do anything n00bish haha.
I have a 97 Civic EX with a 1.6l d16, bone stock aside from the DC Sport 4-2-1 headers I put on, manual trans. Here's my story and problem:
I bought this car a few months back, completely stock. Right before I bought her, the previous owner did a mild tune up (wires, plugs, oil change, tranny fluid flush/change etc.). He showed me receipts from the Honda dealership from it all. The car was fine for a good 3 weeks or so, no problems at all. After said amount of time, I noticed a very small exhaust leak. I'm a bit mechanically inclined, so I traced it to the headers. It was very very minimal, so I decided to let it be until I could afford to replace the headers (next payday, two weeks away).
I ordered a set of DC Sport 4-2-1 headers when I got paid, and waited for em. In the meantime, I went to start my car, and right off the bat it idled like absolute crap, and the exhaust leak was horribly loud. It immediately threw a CEL (P1335 I believe, Misfire in Cylinders 1 and 2. Makes sense, cracked header right at those cylinders.). I drove it to my buddy's place, and on the way, I noticed that it was accelerating really really sluggislhy up until about 3500rpm. Once there, it cleared up, but the car still lacked power a lot (more slow than normal ). Once at my buddy's, we ran his OBDII port scanner, and came up with the above code. We figured it would have something to do with the ridiculous amount of leak coming from that crack in the header, and decided we'll throw the headers on before we do anything else.
The headers arrived in the mail like 2 days later, and I put them on. Everything checked out good, but I did notice the O2 sensor had a lot of white residue around it. This may have been a sign of a bad O2, and if it is, I'm gonna feel really dumb lol. Anyway, we put everything together, car fired right up, and sounded great (very quiet). We had cleared the previous code, but noted it, and it didn't come on. I drove the car for about 20 minutes to warm the headers up, and all seemed well, so off I went back home.
After a few days of driving, I realized the sluggish acceleration had gotten no better, but that the exhaust leak was obviously no longer present. I did research on Google and other forums in relation to the CEL the car threw, and some of my other symptoms/steps I'd taken, and found out that it might be a dizzy problem/Crankshaft Sensor problem (I guess in these EK's, the Crankshaft Position Sensor is both on the Crankshaft Housing, and in the dizzy.. ). So I went ahead and picked up a new dizzy off of Craigslist (my first mistake..). It looked fine, dude said it was legit. We threw it on, and noticed it didn't fit right at all, so we took it off, and put the old one back on. After installing the old one again, my idiot friend got the firing order wrong. It sounded like a harley and died immediately. I called him a moron, fixed the firing order, and it started up smooth. Immediately, a CEL popped up. We port scanned it, and now it read a P1336, which is Crankshaft Position Sensor, but related to a different one (the one in the dizzy apparently). So my guess is the dizzy, but I've been reading a lot of things in forums and what not that are misleading. I have no oil leaks, no smoke, no over-heating, and the car does not burn oil. Also, like I stated above, the O2 sensor looked a bit suspicious. I'd like to avoid having to pay a mechanic to diagnose the car, so if anyone can help to shed light on this issue, I will be greatly appreciative! Thanks in advance guys.
I have a 97 Civic EX with a 1.6l d16, bone stock aside from the DC Sport 4-2-1 headers I put on, manual trans. Here's my story and problem:
I bought this car a few months back, completely stock. Right before I bought her, the previous owner did a mild tune up (wires, plugs, oil change, tranny fluid flush/change etc.). He showed me receipts from the Honda dealership from it all. The car was fine for a good 3 weeks or so, no problems at all. After said amount of time, I noticed a very small exhaust leak. I'm a bit mechanically inclined, so I traced it to the headers. It was very very minimal, so I decided to let it be until I could afford to replace the headers (next payday, two weeks away).
I ordered a set of DC Sport 4-2-1 headers when I got paid, and waited for em. In the meantime, I went to start my car, and right off the bat it idled like absolute crap, and the exhaust leak was horribly loud. It immediately threw a CEL (P1335 I believe, Misfire in Cylinders 1 and 2. Makes sense, cracked header right at those cylinders.). I drove it to my buddy's place, and on the way, I noticed that it was accelerating really really sluggislhy up until about 3500rpm. Once there, it cleared up, but the car still lacked power a lot (more slow than normal ). Once at my buddy's, we ran his OBDII port scanner, and came up with the above code. We figured it would have something to do with the ridiculous amount of leak coming from that crack in the header, and decided we'll throw the headers on before we do anything else.
The headers arrived in the mail like 2 days later, and I put them on. Everything checked out good, but I did notice the O2 sensor had a lot of white residue around it. This may have been a sign of a bad O2, and if it is, I'm gonna feel really dumb lol. Anyway, we put everything together, car fired right up, and sounded great (very quiet). We had cleared the previous code, but noted it, and it didn't come on. I drove the car for about 20 minutes to warm the headers up, and all seemed well, so off I went back home.
After a few days of driving, I realized the sluggish acceleration had gotten no better, but that the exhaust leak was obviously no longer present. I did research on Google and other forums in relation to the CEL the car threw, and some of my other symptoms/steps I'd taken, and found out that it might be a dizzy problem/Crankshaft Sensor problem (I guess in these EK's, the Crankshaft Position Sensor is both on the Crankshaft Housing, and in the dizzy.. ). So I went ahead and picked up a new dizzy off of Craigslist (my first mistake..). It looked fine, dude said it was legit. We threw it on, and noticed it didn't fit right at all, so we took it off, and put the old one back on. After installing the old one again, my idiot friend got the firing order wrong. It sounded like a harley and died immediately. I called him a moron, fixed the firing order, and it started up smooth. Immediately, a CEL popped up. We port scanned it, and now it read a P1336, which is Crankshaft Position Sensor, but related to a different one (the one in the dizzy apparently). So my guess is the dizzy, but I've been reading a lot of things in forums and what not that are misleading. I have no oil leaks, no smoke, no over-heating, and the car does not burn oil. Also, like I stated above, the O2 sensor looked a bit suspicious. I'd like to avoid having to pay a mechanic to diagnose the car, so if anyone can help to shed light on this issue, I will be greatly appreciative! Thanks in advance guys.
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