Erik

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

Scott 89t2

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

vosko

iTrader: (4)

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

Erik

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

vosko

iTrader: (4)

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