if the engine is cold when you start it up then it sounds like your high idle control valve is going bad
this opens up first on start up which takes the r p m s high, then as the car warms up that closes and the idle air control valve (icv) takes over which is when you see the r p m s start to decrease, the icv is adjusted by a screw.
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...91 SMF SCCA
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I see people out there spending money on the car to improve it … If you spend half that effort just working on your driving skills, making you and the car work together as a team, then you’ll go faster – period. To make the car go a second faster on the track takes a lot more energy and money than making yourself drive it one second faster.
– the late Tom Thrash SCCA Solo E Production
Last edited by chi town brat; Oct 26, 2010 at 04:10 AM.