Very Odd Idle Problems..

[Essential]

Hey,

I've got a rather odd idle problem with my R32 Gts-T.

I had been having a few peoblems where I would stop at the traffic lights and the car would pull up yet the revs would still be a little high. then after a few seconds they would drop to a normal idle.

Other times It would be Idle fine but then it would pick up 50 - 100 revs then drop then pick up then drop for a few seconds it would do this.

I thought It was my clutch slipping or something?

However Tonight as i was waiting in the Drive-Thru at KFC, I noticed that if i was stopped and turned my wheel full lock to the right the revs would drop from 800 to 100. and almost stall.

Maybe its got somehting to do with power steering? Im unsure but hopefully some one could shed some light on this for me?

Thanks,

Essential.

[krawler]

We had a similiar problem with our 33 (RB25DET), according to autotech its because the throttle body builds up a lining of "crap", which I seem to recall is from the gas recirc?

Either way, they '1 x clean throttle body' and the problem hasnt happened again.

This was most obvious pulling up to a set of traffic lights and popping the clutch in. The revs would die right down on occasionally stall. Other times, it was ok.

[Essential]

Hmm.. Interesting.

How would I go about cleaning my Throttle Body personally?

Thanks,

Essential.

[krawler]

I assume you remove the pipe connecting to the throttle body and clean it from there?

I believe autotech actually removed the throttle body and cleaned it though, so you may have to do that to do the job properly.

[predator]

its a bit of a bitch to remove.. to actually clean *inside* the plenum.. but that could work. Cleaning AAC valve, etc is another thing to try.

Generally the idle revs can be a bit jumpy. In fact most cars i have had haven't had a perfect idle..

The skyline stock ECU has some kick back thing.. basically when i think it senses its about to stall it dumps in more fuel or adjusts the timing or something and the revs jump back up. So it can kind of "cycle" like that as you sit there. I wouldn't really worry about 50-100revs - i think that is fairly normal?

Although reading down about ur battery thread.. maybe your alternator is a bit dodgy, and having trouble supplying proper current. Maybe that is causing things to fug around like that. Check the belts and a few things like that.

I am really only just guessing here though, somebody would need to check it out properly.