Originally Posted by 93EXaccord
First off, there is nothing "Mechanicly wrong" with your car. But the car will run very shitty until you fix it. also very shitty MPG. Since you have already taken it places i doubt that it could be as simple as accidenly disconnecting a sensor or line. Although your ports may need cleaned, some seafoam may hold you till easter. but having your ports cleaned is no complex procedure its not an engine rebuild (not even that is terribly hard) and most people who work on cars could preform an EGR port cleaning in 30mins.
As for the tranny, thats prolly the Honda auto transmisson that NO ONE would think about adding extra stress to.
read up on the site many of your answers are already here.
Seafoam doesn't do a damn thing for the EGR ports in the J series engines. I used it every 30k miles and mine were still gunked up beyond belief.
The EGR port cleaning takes more around 1.5-2 hours (if you do it right) for an intermediate garage mechanic. The throttle body and manifold should be taken off and cleaned internally while you're in there.
I think you should probably invest in some helms service manuals and learn about the car if you're interested. BTW, trips to redline are actually good for the car...cleans out the carbon build up. But if the carbon is already built up too much, it obviously won't flush it out.