Lagging questions for 97 Civic

[zman92atl]

I just bought a 97 Civic EX with 138K as a beater car for school. I've had a good amount of work done by Honda and myself since I bought it. So far the right axle has been replaced, new spark plugs, distributor cap, oil change, air and fuel filter change and the idle control valve. This car has no pick up what so ever until it reaches higher rpm's (4k and up). I have driven a 95 civic a few years back and remember it having more power at start off. I don't think the car was taken very good care before I bought it. The only things I haven't done are clean the injectors and clean out the throttle body. What's a good gas cleaner or should I have someone professionally clean it, or can you take out the injectors and clean manually??? Anyone have any suggestions or do you think it just has to many miles and it's a lost cause. Again this is my 2nd car just for traveling to school in but it's still lagging and bothering me. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

[b's]

Originally Posted by zman92atl

I just bought a 97 Civic EX with 138K as a beater car for school. I've had a good amount of work done by Honda and myself since I bought it. So far the right axle has been replaced, new spark plugs, distributor cap, oil change, air and fuel filter change and the idle control valve. This car has no pick up what so ever until it reaches higher rpm's (4k and up). I have driven a 95 civic a few years back and remember it having more power at start off. I don't think the car was taken very good care before I bought it. The only things I haven't done are clean the injectors and clean out the throttle body. What's a good gas cleaner or should I have someone professionally clean it, or can you take out the injectors and clean manually??? Anyone have any suggestions or do you think it just has to many miles and it's a lost cause. Again this is my 2nd car just for traveling to school in but it's still lagging and bothering me. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

hey, i remember i worked on a car like that once. the problem was that the timeing was off. check your timeing belt and timeing to see if they're still in time. it may of jump timeing or just needed a new belt.

[b's]

was it doing this when you got the car? you can't clean the injectors. i know that they got all these things where you can just put it in your gas and they say that it is suppose to clean it, but it doesn't work. i mean think about it, wouldn't it eat always your seal and everything. it'll soon mess something up before it cleans your injectors. but i don't think your injector have anything to do with it running like it is. you can clean it manual, tho. umm, tying checking the gap on the spark plug. i'm not sure what the gap suppose to be.