Honda Car Forum

Hi there,

Just bought my first Honda, a 1990 Accord EXR with 4 sp automatic. The man i
bought it off of told me that it needed a new distributor in order to work
right. It runs fine now however it has a few quarks

-Its take about 15 to 20 seconds of holding the starting motor open for it
to finally start.

- It runs rough at about 1500-2000 rpm like the ingniton timing is off. but
a really rough burble.

At 4000rpm its like a rev limiter kicks in a will not go past 4000 unless
you gear down then it will rev to 4500 with sounds like no spark and all you
hear is engine compression.

Does this sound right to need a new distributor?

Or am i into something else?

Thank you
Robert