I just purchased a 1990 eclipse for son. The car is in reasonably good shape for the year. I can tell it's been sitting for awhile, however it starts right up and idles fine.( It is a manual transmission). But when I take off with it, it starts bucking pretty badly then smoothes out after about fifty yards, then stopping and starting again are no problem, (it only does this after it sits and cools completely off), after that I can feel a slight skip to it while driving but after awhile that seems to go away as well. With the car idleling and standing at the rear exhaust I can here a faint skip to it even when the car is warmed up. I checked the plugs and their brand new as well as the wires look to be new also.
After reading in here that the ECU is a common problem I went ahead and pulled it out took it apart and the capacitors looked fine (no leaking or very little if any, nothing like I've seen in the photos).
Because it's been sitting for awhile does this sound like water in the gas?
Help please!