This car enjoys humiliating me...
#21
If you have the stock airbox and don't have a MIL and the car doesn't buck or stall then I would say you have the stock tune. If you want to be sure you can follow the advice that's been given half a dozen times above and run the car at WOT and see if it goes into the redline and burns the tires into 2nd and/or 3rd gear. Otherwise just fork up the $95 to the stealership and have your peace of mind.
#22
I'm not ignoring the advice. I'm just not comfortable driving the car like that on public roads. If that's what it takes to figure it out, then I simply won't figure it out. Not until I can do it safely. But that's pretty much irrelevant. The driving backwards method sounds interesting.
The car runs great, and I can get going in forward gears just fine. So I'm going to say the car is in stock tune, and the throttle response just sucks. I'm sure I'll get better at compensating for the issue as I drive it more.
I'll still probably do a CAI/Tune in the next few months. I hope that helps some, but if not, I can live with it.
I will check the TB and clean it. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
The car runs great, and I can get going in forward gears just fine. So I'm going to say the car is in stock tune, and the throttle response just sucks. I'm sure I'll get better at compensating for the issue as I drive it more.
I'll still probably do a CAI/Tune in the next few months. I hope that helps some, but if not, I can live with it.
I will check the TB and clean it. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
Last edited by CSS996; 02-17-2010 at 11:58 AM.
#23
When you do buy the cai/tune, make sure you specify to whoever does the tune that you want the throttle response dialed back some. Mine was way to touchy for the streets here, so I had them redo it and now it is perfect. I will use the other for 1/4 use only.
#24
patrick
#25
I dont know if they would have changed it if you did not ask them to. But I am sure you can get in touch with them and find out. Throttle response was night and day between stock and the first tune. After they adjusted it for me it is just about perfect.
#26
I'm not ignoring the advice. I'm just not comfortable driving the car like that on public roads. If that's what it takes to figure it out, then I simply won't figure it out. Not until I can do it safely. But that's pretty much irrelevant. The driving backwards method sounds interesting.
The car runs great, and I can get going in forward gears just fine. So I'm going to say the car is in stock tune, and the throttle response just sucks. I'm sure I'll get better at compensating for the issue as I drive it more.
I'll still probably do a CAI/Tune in the next few months. I hope that helps some, but if not, I can live with it.
I will check the TB and clean it. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
The car runs great, and I can get going in forward gears just fine. So I'm going to say the car is in stock tune, and the throttle response just sucks. I'm sure I'll get better at compensating for the issue as I drive it more.
I'll still probably do a CAI/Tune in the next few months. I hope that helps some, but if not, I can live with it.
I will check the TB and clean it. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
Have you checked your throttle body?
#27
I removed the intake boot after disconnecting the two connectors on it. (Sorry, don't know what they are) If I am limiting my inspection to the forward part of the TB that is visible with the boot off, that looked clean as a whistle.
If there is more to checking it than that, I'd need a bit of instruction. I don't do much wrenching, and when I did it before, the vehicles were late 60's or early 70's vintage. Seems fairly easy to work on so far, if you don't count the insanely hard battery cable removal.
I did not check the operation of the butterfly valves. I think maybe I should have done that. But I am still trying to get comfortable tearing into the car.
My drive today was on snow and ice. I was able to modulate the throttle with acceptable precision. Perhaps the weekend's battery disconnect improved my situation further. But I need to drive the car in dry conditions before that verdict.
Car has 34,000mi. Can the TB get fouled up in that amount of miles?
If there is more to checking it than that, I'd need a bit of instruction. I don't do much wrenching, and when I did it before, the vehicles were late 60's or early 70's vintage. Seems fairly easy to work on so far, if you don't count the insanely hard battery cable removal.
I did not check the operation of the butterfly valves. I think maybe I should have done that. But I am still trying to get comfortable tearing into the car.
My drive today was on snow and ice. I was able to modulate the throttle with acceptable precision. Perhaps the weekend's battery disconnect improved my situation further. But I need to drive the car in dry conditions before that verdict.
Car has 34,000mi. Can the TB get fouled up in that amount of miles?
#29
I had 33,000mi on my car when I had to clean mine. I took it completely off and when moving the blades I could feel it stick and than with added force it would move, so I cleaned with tb cleaner and that freed up the blades to move freely.
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