Popped off my UICP from the throttle body and have high idle
Popped off my UICP from the throttle body and have high idle
First some background:
Well, I was driving home yesterday and I went to accelerate and heard a nice pop noise under the hood. Immediately I thought I had popped the lower IC pipe again (though this one had a more pronounced thud to it). I had just gotten on the gas after making a turn, I'd say 70% throttle, I was not in a huge hurry or anything.
Anyways I pulled over in a parking lot as soon as I could and checked the LICP, everything was fine and then upon inspection of the engine bay I noticed it was the stock upper pipe (well more appropriate the stock upper coupler that connected the UICP to the throttle body, had come loose. It had the stock band around it, it had fallen down in the engine bay a little but I was able to easily recover it. It had no visible damage whatsoever unlike the clamp when I blew off my LICP. I managed to reconnect the coupler and tighten the clamp and the engine seems to run fine.
The car is not highly modified, intake, exhaust, licp. Running around 21 psi, it did not seem to spike when the coupler came loose, I am currently attributing it to not having secured the coupler well and that it has been working its way loose. On sunday I had an auto-x so I was pretty heavy on the throttle both getting on and off of it. No issues then.. I am planning on getting T-Bolt clamps for everything now.
The real issue I am experiencing now though is that, my idle is off now, the engine is idling at 2k rpm, before it idled around 1k.. what are the possible issues that are causing this? Do I just need to unplug the battery to reset the ECU or is there something else potentially wrong? What should I try to diagnose the issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Well, I was driving home yesterday and I went to accelerate and heard a nice pop noise under the hood. Immediately I thought I had popped the lower IC pipe again (though this one had a more pronounced thud to it). I had just gotten on the gas after making a turn, I'd say 70% throttle, I was not in a huge hurry or anything.
Anyways I pulled over in a parking lot as soon as I could and checked the LICP, everything was fine and then upon inspection of the engine bay I noticed it was the stock upper pipe (well more appropriate the stock upper coupler that connected the UICP to the throttle body, had come loose. It had the stock band around it, it had fallen down in the engine bay a little but I was able to easily recover it. It had no visible damage whatsoever unlike the clamp when I blew off my LICP. I managed to reconnect the coupler and tighten the clamp and the engine seems to run fine.
The car is not highly modified, intake, exhaust, licp. Running around 21 psi, it did not seem to spike when the coupler came loose, I am currently attributing it to not having secured the coupler well and that it has been working its way loose. On sunday I had an auto-x so I was pretty heavy on the throttle both getting on and off of it. No issues then.. I am planning on getting T-Bolt clamps for everything now.
The real issue I am experiencing now though is that, my idle is off now, the engine is idling at 2k rpm, before it idled around 1k.. what are the possible issues that are causing this? Do I just need to unplug the battery to reset the ECU or is there something else potentially wrong? What should I try to diagnose the issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
popping a upic shouldnt have caused any long term idle problems... i blow mine a lot actually with t-bolts so much to where i now double t bolt them all haha but sounds like there is something else that happened sometime in there... maybe hen it popped off it hit something on the TB but i dount that... sorry cant be any more help
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