ImolaFem
02-25-2002, 11:15 AM
So last night after 9:30 I finally worked up the motivation to brave the snowy cold and get out into the garage!
I had a NT gauge cluster all ready to swap in for my speed sensor problem and I was ready to rid the car of its ghost. After I put in the NT turbo gauge I took the car for a drive. It died once or twice, but seemed better....idled more consistently. Then I came back home and it died how it usually did. Damn! I popped the hood in the dark parking lot and heard some hissing....I reached down to feel for the egr valve, to see if it was the culprit and the car died. I felt some metal bending back and forth. I thought, hrm, odd, is this the egr vavle malfunction? So I closed the biss quite a bit and made most of the hissing go away and drove the car into the lit garage. After some inspection I found that bending metal was just a clip to hold down wires....however I figured since I was back there I should spray some WD40 onto the idle switch and work it in.
I took the car for another drive and it died twice on the way out of the parking lot. DAMN! But then either the ECU figured out what it was doing or something and the car drove and idled perfectly for 30-40 minutes. I got beat by a white GSX with a neon green FMIC though on Academy =(
So then I was like, well, what if it was the hissing biss and sticking idle switch that was causing these idle problems and not the speed sensor? So I swapped in my old gauge cluster and reoiled the idle switch. Car died again leaving the apt complex (wtf is that?) but drove around for another 20 mins with perfect idle and no other problems!
So I was very happy with my 1G....I adjusted the parking brake (so it finally works!) and garaged it for the night.
That car is an absolute dog. I bet its getting like 50 counts of knock. Does anyone in Colorado Springs have a 1G datalogger? or will Dave Landry have a stock 1G to race against? LOL
Mandy
I had a NT gauge cluster all ready to swap in for my speed sensor problem and I was ready to rid the car of its ghost. After I put in the NT turbo gauge I took the car for a drive. It died once or twice, but seemed better....idled more consistently. Then I came back home and it died how it usually did. Damn! I popped the hood in the dark parking lot and heard some hissing....I reached down to feel for the egr valve, to see if it was the culprit and the car died. I felt some metal bending back and forth. I thought, hrm, odd, is this the egr vavle malfunction? So I closed the biss quite a bit and made most of the hissing go away and drove the car into the lit garage. After some inspection I found that bending metal was just a clip to hold down wires....however I figured since I was back there I should spray some WD40 onto the idle switch and work it in.
I took the car for another drive and it died twice on the way out of the parking lot. DAMN! But then either the ECU figured out what it was doing or something and the car drove and idled perfectly for 30-40 minutes. I got beat by a white GSX with a neon green FMIC though on Academy =(
So then I was like, well, what if it was the hissing biss and sticking idle switch that was causing these idle problems and not the speed sensor? So I swapped in my old gauge cluster and reoiled the idle switch. Car died again leaving the apt complex (wtf is that?) but drove around for another 20 mins with perfect idle and no other problems!
So I was very happy with my 1G....I adjusted the parking brake (so it finally works!) and garaged it for the night.
That car is an absolute dog. I bet its getting like 50 counts of knock. Does anyone in Colorado Springs have a 1G datalogger? or will Dave Landry have a stock 1G to race against? LOL
Mandy