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Russ and Jim, thanks for the quick response. My car is FI and I will mess around with the idle this weekend. Thanks. Jim Jim Adney wrote: > On 31 Oct 2001, at 19:40, Jim wrote: > > > Ok, so I have my square running pretty good now, lots of power, but it > > still has a rough idle and it does the strangest thing when I start > > it. It will idle up for about 15 seconds nice and normal and then the > > idle will start to surge up high and back down until it almost kills > > and then back up and back down, it will do this until it is warmed up. > > What could be causing this problem? > > If this is a FI engine, then it is a symptom telling you that you have > the idle set too high. What you are seeing is the normal response > of the FI brain sensing that the throttle is closed and the engine > speed is higher than idle, so it shuts off the gas until the speed > drops. > > In normal operation this just cuts off the gas when you take your > foot off the gas and coast down from high speed. The engine kicks > back in at about 1200 RPM. > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe -- ****************************************** Check out my 1966 Bug! http://204.169.29.251/vw/my_66_vwbug.htm ******************************************