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Old July 4th, 2008, 01:39 AM   #1
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Idle question


I noticed tonight at the track that my car is ideling around 500rpms in park around 600 in drive, also it has a stutter to it almost like its hunting for a rpm range. any thoughts on this? no CEL is on

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Old July 4th, 2008, 01:54 PM   #2
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You should clean/check it every 6 months or so....or between summer and winter...thats what i do and never have a problem with it
 
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k, thats causing the low idle then? i thought that would have to do with the TPS
 
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yeah...thats what's causing it....sometimes your car will jump around too and then die cuz it can't keep an idle
 
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does any one know whats causing my car to trow out and idleaircontrol overspeed error cel?
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Old July 8th, 2008, 09:00 PM   #8
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anyone?
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Old July 9th, 2008, 01:39 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by 97GT4.6 View Post
Clean your IAC


wtf is an iac?
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idle air control http://www.mustangforums.com/m_1448900/tm.htm
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Old July 10th, 2008, 02:26 AM   #11
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check you MAF that will mess with it to and its easy to clean
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i replaced it not to long ago!! the problem is that my car stalls when it gets hot it did this even before my pi cams and intake i know that the idle is kinda off cause the computer is not yet adjusted to the pi stuff! but what makes my car stall?
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you changed the MAF, or the IAC?
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Old July 11th, 2008, 07:24 PM   #14
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iac!
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