1988 Honda Accord DX carb.
Here's my problem, car runs fine idles normal like it has been the past year but when i come to a stop light or take a turn and my rpms come down low enough the car bogs down and rather often will stall out. I can sit at the stop light all day and it'll idle fine, but as soon as i press the gas pedal it wants to die. I've tried flooring it at the stops, seems to help, and i've also tried very gently pressing the gas until i can get up to a decent speed, and it also seemed to help but maybe im imagining that.
As long as im feeding it gas the car will run fine, if im running 45+ and floor it, the car will pick up and go like it always has, the problem only occurs when accelerating from a stop or accelerating after making a turn.
I've searched online and i get many things pertaining mainly to fuel injected cars, and instead of going out and searching my car for a part that doesn't even exist on a carb engine i thought i would seek assistance. I've heard a clogged cat can do it, but like i said, while driving it, i can floor it and it'll go like it always has, no power loss. i have not adjusted anything prior to this problem arising and the only thing i have done is put on a new water hose. i highly doubt that would cause this as it was only making the car overheat and that is fixed now. I'm not exactly a car genius so please excuse me if i have left out any important details that you may need, simply ask and i will provide. i have replaced all spark plugs, spark plug wires, distributor cap and rotor, both fuel filters, radiator cap, gas cap (only because i drove off without mine once.... slap me for it, i know it was stupid), but everything was changed roughly 20k or so miles ago and they all looks very nice still.
RPMS do slightly fluctuate once the car has warmed up all the way which made me suspect a vaccum leak, however i could not find it. Even went as far as to remove the air filter and expose the carb and then replace it all back with the proper lines. I only went that far because i've never torn it down any further than that so i don't see why any other line would have come loose or been forgotten if it hadn't ever been removed to begin with.
a few things to note: fuel pump is hard-wired... guy i bought it from did this and i have yet to track down the problem to which made him do this. car has been running fine with this until the past 2-3 weeks though. Around the same time it began to mess up i had installed a subwoofer and something that made me think was that the fuel pump wire was wired into the back of the radio, and i wired the remote wire into the same wires the fuel pump was. Could the remote wire be feeding the fuel pump wire frequency and cause this?
any replied would be greatly appreciated as i do not know what to do..
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