ECU experts, please help

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Spectre23
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So I have been burning my own EPROMs for my ECU. I have it almost to where it needs to be with my wacky combination of mods... But I haven't figured out one thing... How do I raise the idle? Do I just need to advance the crap out of the timing down low, or lean it out, or is there another number that affects the idle? Right now mine will idle about 900 or so until it is warm then it drops to about 500 and bounces from 500 to 700.


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biosehnsucht
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have you tried adjusting idle the normal way?

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I agree with biosehnsucht, you should be able to adjust the idle by turning the adjustable 10mm screw on the intake (same section as your A.A.C and FICD).

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my car didnt seem to do anything when i tried to adjust it that way. hopefully it shouldnt be a problem for you.

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Yeah, mine didn't really do anything when I adjusted it the normal way, so I figured I did it wrong. Which isn't entirely out of the realm of posibility still

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If its like the KA24 you have to unhook the TPS or something first, otherwise the ECU keeps using the idle air control shiznit to maintain idle despite you changing that idle adjust screw..

RTFM? I can't ATM..

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yeah, now you tell me. thanks though.

- tim


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