Timing Belt issue...

[evergod]

I own an '89 Honda Prelude SI 2.0 DOHC Manual and just recently replaced my timing belt... A number of issues arose afterwards. I know I didn't screw up the timing belt. I had two other people check and double check that the teeth were lined up EXACTLY as they were before I replaced the belt. At the same time that I changed the belt I changed the spark plugs as well.. I thought my issues might be due to improper gapping, considdered they WERE gapped at 40 and I gapped them at 45, however I changed the gapping on the sparks back to 40 and that didn't make any difference. With all this information I forgot to say what the problem is: The car isn't driving at its intended performance. When I push on the gas in first gear it boggs down REALLY bad. It seems to me like not all of the cylindars are firing and it's burning gas, which I have also noticed it eating my gas tank up twice as fast as usual (driving around town). I checked all of the vacuums and made sure that everything was tightened up nicely, I check the spark wires and they are making good contact with the spark plugs I checked the gapping on the spark plugs, I checked that the ECU was properly connected and I reset the ECU by taking the negative batter cable off for ten or so minutes. Like I said, I think the only thing left for me to check is the distributor timing but I was hoping to get some additional feedback before I get into that.

One other thing, this may just be a compression issue, but right now my vacuum from my fuel regulator (right behind my engine) that leads to my cruis control is disconnected. Reason for that being, when I plug the vacuum into the cruis control device it drops the idle rpm down about 300 and makes driving even worse.

Any thoughts comments would be appreciated.

[drift]

are your wires connected in the right order?

[lorunner]

if all you did was replace your belt and now you have a proble then it sound to me like you did something wrong. the twin cams are a bitch first of all and if one of the cams are just a tooth off then you will get a "bogging" when you hit the gas, the car will still run but it willl bog. Recheck the belt you should have had slack between the two cams when you were done.

[tm1574]

I am having the same problem, but my car was redlining early too. Was yours and did you ever fix the problem.