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Hi,
I recently purchased my first ep3 type r. I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions for me. When I start the car from cold it revs at 1500rpm then rises to 2000rpm then slowly drops down to just under1000rpm. When I am driving the car it seems to be revving quite high for example in 4th gear doing 30mph its at just under 3000rpm. Is this normal? I didn't think it should idle that high so did abit of research and come across a lot of people suggesting cleaning out the iacv. So I thought I would give it ago. I stripped it down and cleaned it out but noticed when I was putting the iacv back together the holes on the electrical partwhere elongated and I couldn't remember exactly what position it was in. Does this matter? I then put it roughly where I thought it was and put it all back together. Unfortunatly it didnt cure the high idleing. On the way home when I was building up speed to get on the motorway as the vtec was just about to kick in in 3rd gear the engine light came on. When I plugged it into the scan tool it came up with a fault code for throttle position sensor. Is this because of the iacv?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
I recently purchased my first ep3 type r. I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions for me. When I start the car from cold it revs at 1500rpm then rises to 2000rpm then slowly drops down to just under1000rpm. When I am driving the car it seems to be revving quite high for example in 4th gear doing 30mph its at just under 3000rpm. Is this normal? I didn't think it should idle that high so did abit of research and come across a lot of people suggesting cleaning out the iacv. So I thought I would give it ago. I stripped it down and cleaned it out but noticed when I was putting the iacv back together the holes on the electrical partwhere elongated and I couldn't remember exactly what position it was in. Does this matter? I then put it roughly where I thought it was and put it all back together. Unfortunatly it didnt cure the high idleing. On the way home when I was building up speed to get on the motorway as the vtec was just about to kick in in 3rd gear the engine light came on. When I plugged it into the scan tool it came up with a fault code for throttle position sensor. Is this because of the iacv?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mark