Just recently picked up a 95 S/C pearl white, tan leather, beautiful car 80k original miles, im the second owner. Few days later im noticing some unusual problems, stumbled upon the forum figured i'd see if there were any positive feedback. I'd like to ultimately put my g/f in this car for a daily driver with some light mods, or maybe possibly sell it.
1. The Firm ride light comes on randomly...maybe a bad switch?...
2. The Temp. gauge reads just below the N of Norm 95% of the time, and just recently it gets up to the M of Norm while sitting still, i start driving it...goes back down to the N.(im thinking...rusted internals of the Water pump, no thermostat, or some sorta blockage)
3. Theres a not so pleasent vibration that sort of lingers through the idle and mid rpm its not quiet as noticeable.
4. After the car warms up, ive noticed that when i get home, i put the car in reverse to back into my spot, and the idle drops to 500(ish) and the oil pressure drops...so the idle when in gear is quierky.
i have fairly good amount of knowlege of cars, specially with highperformance honda's ive always loved the S/C's....and it pulls really strong, and has some very sexy lines, im just not very educated on the Supercharged motors ect. thus far i've heard...bad Temp sensor, no thermostat can make the ecu cause some funk fuel maps causing bad idle and maybe lieing about temp on the gauge as far as being warm. Another said blown head gaskets, but the car runs like a scalded ape...pulls dead even with a lightly moded mazdaspeed protege(turbo). and i've not noticed any oil in the coolant, or any loss of coolant to the motor oil. I've also heard something about the intake being cracked?...so yah any help would be appreciated....also...any danger in changing the pully size, or any ecu upgrades that would boost it up.
then again...if someone was intrested i would sell it for what i gave for it(as i believe i stole the car) and put that into my other project. $4,000, pictures available.
1. The Firm ride light comes on randomly...maybe a bad switch?...
2. The Temp. gauge reads just below the N of Norm 95% of the time, and just recently it gets up to the M of Norm while sitting still, i start driving it...goes back down to the N.(im thinking...rusted internals of the Water pump, no thermostat, or some sorta blockage)
3. Theres a not so pleasent vibration that sort of lingers through the idle and mid rpm its not quiet as noticeable.
4. After the car warms up, ive noticed that when i get home, i put the car in reverse to back into my spot, and the idle drops to 500(ish) and the oil pressure drops...so the idle when in gear is quierky.
i have fairly good amount of knowlege of cars, specially with highperformance honda's ive always loved the S/C's....and it pulls really strong, and has some very sexy lines, im just not very educated on the Supercharged motors ect. thus far i've heard...bad Temp sensor, no thermostat can make the ecu cause some funk fuel maps causing bad idle and maybe lieing about temp on the gauge as far as being warm. Another said blown head gaskets, but the car runs like a scalded ape...pulls dead even with a lightly moded mazdaspeed protege(turbo). and i've not noticed any oil in the coolant, or any loss of coolant to the motor oil. I've also heard something about the intake being cracked?...so yah any help would be appreciated....also...any danger in changing the pully size, or any ecu upgrades that would boost it up.
then again...if someone was intrested i would sell it for what i gave for it(as i believe i stole the car) and put that into my other project. $4,000, pictures available.