Its my last day in NJ for thanksgiving break and i'm leaving the T2 in my parents garage for the winter months. so i decide to get all my turbo jitters out for a while and take the car out for one last spin...around 5 miles. some of you might recall that ever since i put in a new TPS about a month back, the car idled high...around 1300. it drove perfect otherwise (even flawlessly made the 8 hour trip to NJ last weekend) i had adjusted the BAC screw after the TPS install to smooth out the idle but couldn't lower it anymore using that method. back to the story...

after a few miles of driving a got on the car a little bit...redlining it thru first and second. i then just slowly cruised for about a mile into a school parking lot where i was gonna turn around. i slowed down, pushed in the clutch and made the left turn. only then the car died! i was like hmmmmm...so i started it back up again and drove to the other side of the lot. i was about to turn back onto the road when i noticed that the idle was low for the first time in 2 months. it was at 400. oh well. turned out onto the road again and now i noticed the throttle seemed smoother. i had been meaning to tighten the throttle cable over the past week since it seemed like there was a millisecond mechanical delay when i could touch the gas pedal. but now it was totally smooth again. (note: it was only my "guess" that it was the throttle cable that caused the delay)

so i drove it back home and let it idle for about 2 minutes before pulling it in the garage. idled at about 500-600 steady. so what happened? LOL. could my redline runs have caused the throttle cable to jostle back to position and therefore offset the BAC to a lower idle since i had adjusted it before? or could it be that the ECU finally got accustomed to the TPS after it being in the car for a month now?

don't know if anyone has an answer...but just thought i'd toss out another unexplainable rotary story

 

my guess is the throttle cable lossened itself, maybe streached a bit?? you shouldn't be setting the idle speed by the throttle cable which it sounds like it was, there should always be a little slack

 

bum bum bum...... its still alive. i thought you killed the car.... you know what to do. now that the car is back in NJ

 

LOL...yeah "IF" your FD is ever finished haha

 

come on goal is january............ anytime in the next year would be good i guess