Is it dead?

[civicboy28]

Went for a drive today in the fd done about 20miles and then went to fill up with v power, I hadn\'t been driving it hard.
When I started it it stumbled to life what seemed like on 1 rotor, as it sounded like a tractor! I went to pull away and had no power. I drove it too my mates where it seemed to get better the higher the revs climes.
Anyway she stumbled into life round my mates after a 30min cool down. Then on the drive home I lost more and more power and it wouldn\'t rev. Then it stalled and obviously its now flooded. Now surly if I\'d lost a seal or tip of would start on 1 rotor? So I\'m thinking maybe the coil has broken down?? I don\'t feel its fair to condemn it yet LOL
any advice on past experience would be great

[Timmy]

If it is starting cold but not hot it\'s not good news, the compression goes down as it warms and gets worse. Is the idle erratic, if you have a boost gauge is the vaccum stable? If it is one tip you effectively get 1 and a 3rd rotors working. I got alot of vibration too when it happened.

[civicboy28]

the idle was pretty stable. But I have no boost gauge to see the vacume flicker.
The thing is I don\'t see why it would go when I started the car because its not like it was under boost.
 the more I drove it the more it struggled.
Untill it died and flooded.
could it be plugs failed? Although that would probably manifest itself under higher loads I would have thought.