Tighten your throttle cable!
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Tighten your throttle cable!
Hey guys lately theres been ALOT of slack in my pedal and when i would turn on my car it would go up to 2k and drop to about 100rpm and go back up to regular idle. Then one day i pretty much had to push the pedal halfway down just to feel some tension in it, i had about 2 inches of slack on my throttle cable, took 5 minutes to tighten it and it feels sooo much better. Car doesnt almost die anymore and throttle response is 100x better. Go do it
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Just be mindful that it's possible to overdo it. I made this mistake when I first got the car. Cable felt quite loose so I took all the slack out of it. All of a sudden there was, I dunno, half an inch or so of the final travel of the gas pedal that got very, very stiff. I got a helper to get it just to where when the pedal's on the floor, the throttle is all the way open.
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I hate to be the noob, but I have to ask... the DBW cars don't have this problem, do they? The throttle cable looks to go into some black box(the DBW box I suppose) and seems like a self contained unit.
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great reminder--definitely worth doing!! --here's an earlier thread on it that's worth reading too (it's only for the 00--05 years --non-DBW--there's no cable to adjust on 06 and later)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0&#entry1488294
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0&#entry1488294
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Originally Posted by audiophile,Jan 10 2008, 08:11 PM
I hate to be the noob, but I have to ask... the DBW cars don't have this problem, do they? The throttle cable looks to go into some black box(the DBW box I suppose) and seems like a self contained unit.
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Originally Posted by audiophile,Jan 10 2008, 11:11 PM
I hate to be the noob, but I have to ask... the DBW cars don't have this problem, do they? The throttle cable looks to go into some black box(the DBW box I suppose) and seems like a self contained unit.
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=424197
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this was my first "mod" back in about 2000... when the car was a few months old.
made a tight car tighter- the throttle response improvement over stock was amazing- since then it has retainied the tightness, and have not had to readjust it yet.
made a tight car tighter- the throttle response improvement over stock was amazing- since then it has retainied the tightness, and have not had to readjust it yet.