Any body look under their hood and noticed that the steel braided cord connected to the throttle body is a little loose?? Is their any way to correct this to improve response and maybe more air flow? Hopefully someone else has seen this becasue i think it is a potential power sucker.


DK MKE

 

start the car, loosen the two 10mm bolts on the plate connecting the throttle cable to the intake manifold, push it slowly to the passenger side of the car, untill the engine makes a change in RPM, you still want the car to idle right so loosen it a little and tighten the two 10mm bolts

congrats you have just gotten rid of the free play on your gas pedal

Link

 

a little advice....DO NOT TIGHTEN THOSE BOLTS TOO MUCH....considering i just snapped mine...now i gotta go buy a extractor to get those bolt tips out!

 

Also be careful with your chord tightening. Make sure your chord remains properly lubricated or it will interfere with the throttle return to idle speed. After a lot of tweaking I managed to get the idle to properly settle at around 1000RPM, which is just about the first change you'll notice in throttle when you play with it.

 

did you guys get any better power/throttle response? Will this in conjunction with the tb upgrade from RRM bring a good improvement?

 

I noticed a response improvement from a dead stop launch. That is if you were to launch the car from IDLE speed. Normally I noticed a bog down before acceleration, once I tightened the chord and raised IDLE launch acceleration is much more fluent.

 

Link286XT,

Thanx bro. That thing was pissin me off every time i was uder the hood. I did notice a little smoother acceleration, and from a dead stop, a smaller lag. Thanx again

 

10mm bolts SUCK! I dont know how these snapped..i dont get it...

anyway, looks like i gotta goto a mechanic...right now i taped down the table to a existing hose....****ers will pay for using ****ty screws

 

Have a and relax dog thats what they make a tap and die set for I'll be getting mine next year along with the rest of my tools.