A friends 16 year old daughter bought a used 1990 Honda Civic back in early summer 2003. MT, 4 speed, dual point EFI. Twice in just about 6 months the car has stalled out when she tries to take off. Only happened when sitting for a while in traffic or a dive through. When she attempted to restart, the engine cranks but does not start. When she lets it sit for about a minute, then tries, it fires up and runs great. The LED error code flashes "16", which is for "bad" injectors. I reset the ECM back in July and She checks it every time she starts the car. I built her a remote read out for the ECM LED. I used a phototransistor to drive an LED mounted in one of the under dash knock outs. No error code shows up. The Check Engine light does NOT come on. As soon as the car died, on the next restart attempt, she noticed the LED flashing "16" again. The car runs great and except for these two events, I would swear nothing is wrong. Once is no big deal, the ECM could have gotten confussed. But twice bothers me. The local shops only sugestion is to change out both injectors. She is a high school student, saving for college and if she has to she will spring for the replacemnet. I thought I would ask if anyone else had ran into this issue, and is there anyway to pick the correct injector? If this problem happened more often I wuld suggest just trying one, then the other. But, given that she is a young woman, and the modern world is no place to be in a vehical that could leave her stranded, her parents and us (my wife and I) want to fix this. I loaned her my 1991 Civic and I have been driving her Civic since Sunday, and it runs just great. Any ideas or should I just tell her to change both injectors? Terry
