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Old Jul 26, 2012 | 05:08 PM
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I have an 09 v6 5speed with an SCT flash tuner... lately when I change the tune, I have problems. When I'm driving, if I am to put the car in neutral while still rolling, the RPMs will jump rapidly from 1k to 3k continuously... until you push the clutch in. I sent the tuner back, had it retuned, and still contiunes to do it (even in the stock mode), meaning it's my car and not the tuner. After a couple days of driving it, it will stop, until you change the tune... cleaned the trottle body today, no luck. Any suggestions???

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Old Jul 26, 2012 | 08:48 PM
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I see in your list:

"BBK Throttle Body"

I think that answers your problem. A lot of people who have tried those have had the same problems you are describing.
Old Jul 26, 2012 | 08:51 PM
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really? so maybe i should reinstall the stock throttle body...

its just so odd to me that it only does it only certain circumstances
Old Jul 26, 2012 | 10:27 PM
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That's what I would do - put the stock throttle body back on and see if the problem returns. My guess is that you won't see it again. If you do a search on the BBK throttle body you will find a lot of threads where people describe the same symptoms as you did.
Old Jul 26, 2012 | 10:53 PM
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I would clean the MAF sensor while you're at it, you can get the cleaner at any autozone. And a few people have traced weird idle issues back to a dirty MAF sensor so it's worth a try.

I think brenspeed has a video tutorial on how to clean the MAF sensor on their website so you might want to check that out too.
Old Jul 26, 2012 | 11:31 PM
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Alright ill try both those things and check back in, thanks guys
Old Jul 27, 2012 | 05:57 AM
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Try one at a time - that way you know which was the cause. If you do both (return to stock throttle body and clean the MAF) you won't know what fixed it.

I would do the throttle body first since the BBK is known to cause problems.
Old Jul 27, 2012 | 09:09 AM
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Will do
Old Jul 27, 2012 | 02:07 PM
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Remove the TB spacer, PLEASE!
Replace the BBK TB with the OE TB.

Who is writing your tunes? Are they the canned tunes from SCT? Ughhhhh.
Old Jul 27, 2012 | 02:11 PM
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Have you properly reset your car's ECU since installing the throttle bodies. I made that mistake, and after resetting the ECU the car idled like brand new, no more surging.



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