My buddy talked me into replacing my duct-taped, glued together TID with a homemade one - so I did.

We removed, the old TID, installed the new one, removed the airpump (and that's it), and adjusted the idle.

Drove around the block a few times, seemed fine. Drove to a friend's house about 10 miles away. Still fine. Drove from the friend's house and car stalled about 2 miles down the road.

Managed to jiggle wired and get it started enough to limp home, but the car will die if idle goes below 1500ish.

I completely removed and replaced the new TID and made sure I had no vacuum leaks. No go.

So, idle set wrong?
air leaks?
air pump removal snafu?

 

Do you still have catalytic converters? If you removed your air pump and you still have cats, then they will clog very fast and will cause immense back pressure that will prevent idling.

 

BAC electrical plug come undone?

 

I doubt the cats have clogged in less than an hour of driving and a massive exhaust leak after the turbo. Did you check all the intercooler piping? Very strange as it idled great and ran fine up until the point it cut out on you at a light(?). You said it wouldn't let you rev past 3000 rpm? Check to make sure that the TPS is plugged in, if so, do you have a digital multimeter at the house? Check for 1k ohm. If not able to check the TPS let me know.

Brian

 

yeah I did have rough ride above 3k, but I have a known-to-be-flakey connection on that front sparkpack. I reconnected that real good and smoothed that problem out. I was fooling with it.

 

make sure the TID is clamped on tight.

 

make sure the wires going to the afm didn't come loose. my car did this and that was the problem

 

Drove my *** all the way out to his house to find the intercooler inlet off the turbo was off. Figured I'd beat him to the post! Muahaha!

 

...and WHO would have left that loose? It was you..

That's what I get for looking past the obvious - in the dark and the rain.

(and, to be fair, it wasn't OFF. It was loose. I probably knocked it more loose when I was rebuilding your TID)

(and to be more fair, smartass, how come you can't figure out my high idle?)

 

that's funny considering I've had a cat for over a year with no air pump or ACV or any other emissions

 

yeah, well I just ordered one of those downpipe/midpipe deals, so it won't be a problem for very long.

 

And now - to find that one last vac leak (ssssssss)..