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Acceleration Problems With 87 Honda Accord Lx

Posted in Ignition Systems | Asked on Aug 16, 2010

I have an 87 honda accord lx that is carbourated. Heres the problem, we was driving down the road one day and the car just died it smelled like rotten eggs so everybody said it was my catilac converter. We cut that off and it didnt work. So then 20 parts later we finally get the car to start. Now the problem is that the car starts but it doesnt get any power, like its clogged somewhere. It wont go over like 10mph. I’ve had so many ppl look at it but nobody can figure it out. Any help would be so helpful.
Heres a list of everything that is new on the car.

1. Fuel Pump
2. Fuel Filters
3. Spark Plugs
4. Rebuilt the distributor twice
5. Both Front Axels
6. Coil
7. Timing Belt
8. Harmonic Balancer Pulley
and ect ect ect

Any advice would be so helpfull

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There are 3 Answers for "Acceleration Problems With 87 Honda Accord Lx"

  1. Steven J says:

    Try new spark plug wires, and fuel sytem cleaner. The sulpher smell is form the exhaust. Carberator cleaner should also help.

    I would take apart the carberator and clean it very well. it sounds like the gas went bad in it and it coated it with a varnish. Gas breaks down and this a frequent problem. I got a snowblower that was had this problem. After I took apart cleaned and rebuilt the carb. it worked.

  2. Carman Nguyen says:

    Carburetor does not give enough gas to sustain speed.

  3. D Tyler says:

    First off whoever said it was your catalytic converter it a retard. That is probably the problem NOW, might not have been before.

    being you have an older car its basically very simple. you need 3 things to make it run, the same 3 things you need to build a fire.

    1.fuel
    2.air
    3.ignition source

    1. Fuel, starts in the tank, either forced or sucked by a fuel pump through lines to the carburetor and then into the combustion chamber. if your pump and filters are new then it may be your carburetor may be bad. OR if someone put something in your tank that causes fuel to not burn properly then that may cause the problem.

    2. Air. You cant really screw that one up on carburetor-ed engines unless you drop a ball into the thing or something.

    3. Ignition source, well your car runs so it obviously has ignition.

    OHH!!! and this is BIG!!!!
    if one of the things you replaced was the problem then the dieing part is solved. BUT!!! ALOT!!! of small engines(and even some big ones) require whats called back pressure. If you cut your exhaust off before your cat. converter. you totally lost almost all your back pressure. I had a friend that did that once and his V8 grand Marquis couldn’t move faster than about 15. Back pressure helps the engine burn the fuel efficiently and helps increase power exponentially.

    If that’s the problem you car should still rev like normal when in park or neutral but should lag very hard when in gear.

    Just put a new exhaust system on it!