OH CRAP!!! HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:42 pm

i had it done at an ac delco place... so i'm pretty sure they new what they were doing...

i checked up on them halfway through the job and saw that they had the repair manual out and were doing everything in basically the same way i would have. i'm going out tonight again to run it up. i was doing between 80 and 100 last night for a good 2 solid hours, then ran it through some twisty roads for a good hour... everything seems better at high rpm though... my launches just suck now

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:27 am

BosnianLanos wrote:You can adjust idle pretty easily, there is a screw that holds the buttlefly open at idle just a bit, depending on the original settings from the factory, you can either raise or lower the idle, sometimes it is as low as it will go, so you can only raise it. Just experiment, all you need is a philips head screwdriver, it is very easily accesible, it is on top of the TB.

Now I'm scared that when I change my timing belt that my car will be slow...er. Are you sure it is tensioned up right? I'm sure that too tight or too loose could affect performance, most run-of-the-mill auto shops don't give a crap about factory torque specifications and do work just to get it done, not satisfy the customer.

i concur... the TB idle position is adjustable by that screw but remeber... if you did that you are dealing with the symptiom not the cause... you are just blinding your eyes to the problem here.

i did have the same rough idling after the timing belt job i had... the car had better prformance at high RPM and i could spin the tires at 2nd gear with my 1.5 SOHC.

the rough idling is still their after a year and half of the timing job... turned out to be dirty injectors so it could be something unrelated to the timing belt job that just happened in the same time of the service so make sure to check the other stuff.

personally i replaced my spark plugs, spark plug wires, fuel filter, air filter and cleaned my TB and IAC about 4 times then i found out it was the injectors so be patant and do this right before it consumes lots of your money and time.

MMamdouh