Q: Honda Prelude 1993; Car won't start and I smell gas.
I recently been in the rebuilding process of my Honda Prelude Vtec 1993. And all of a sudden the car won't start and I smell gas. When it does start and I drive it the rpms are all over the place what could it be?
My car has 175000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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