I'm guessing your car is a 5 speed? The reason I suggest that is, in heavy rain, water is blown up into the engine compartment and on the crossover pipe which causes some steam too. It can all come straight up at the distributor from the back. I have had this happen numerous times in heavy rain. The way I stopped it was to smear some silicone sealer across the back edge of the distributor cap where it meets the distributor - just the back side. No problem after that. I did not have the same problem with my automatic - I believe it is because the transmission takes up so much more room the effects in rain are different. I still put some silicone on the other day during the tune-up I was doing. Harold McElraft - 3354 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "TalksToGod" <5n-@xxxx> wrote: > It seems whenever it is raining hard, my engine starts to misfire and > lack power. It will misfire at idle, and then move to misfiring only > upon hard acceleration. This morning it was fine, but on my way home > after work I had to accelerate hard and fast to pass someone who was > going 30 and decided to go 60 while I was passing-After a few miles or > so I noticed the missing. I'm not sure if it was because of the rain, > or perhaps I damaged something? I have noticed several times that the > engine misses on bad rainy days. I made sure all the spark wires were > still in place and checked for loose wires here and there. Nothing > unusual was found... Any suggestions would be great. Thanks guys - Dan > B. VIN#5003 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/