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ninjastang125

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Well i finally got my cams installed today. It feels alot faster but i have a serious idling issue. When i got my car tuned initially with stock cams i had an idling issue when letting off from full throttle, but now the car doesn't want to idle at all. It is like im trying to keep a achohol dragster started. I am getting retuned next week or the week after hopefully i can break the 300 rwhp mark. What do you guys think, can i make it?
 

d98gt

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Maybe I am blind, but which cams did you go with?
 
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Cms stage 1
 

Mr. Rustypwnz

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oh yeah
 
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It runs great other then at idle. Only thing is now I can rev higher and still make power. Wish I would have got 4.30s but I'm hoping more to break into the 11s then to break 300 rwhp but we will see.
 

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i wish you would have went with a bigger cam lol
 
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I didn't want to change my vavle springs so that's why I got the stage 1s
 

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oh got ya, yeah your already making good power, a tune will def put you over 300
 

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trying cleaning your MAF and toggling with your TPS sensor.
 
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I have done both. It seems to idle fine from a cold start but when it warms up and the rpm's drop the car wants to die
 

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Congrats!!
Good product,and great guys to deal with.
My GT did the same when i had the stage II's installed.Just had the ideal re dialed after it was warmed up.But it sounds like you have another issue if it was doing it before hand.
 

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ya if it was doing it before you put the cams in then you probably have an issue with the IAC if cleaning the MAF and toggling the TPS didnt work. but congrats on the cams.
 
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I unpluged the iac it made my problem worse
 

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you need to check the voltage on your TPS sensor with the throtle fully closed. Should be around .96 I think it was. May also have to adjust your throttle screw if you have a aftermarket intake. That's what we did on mine. Also in the tune we bumped idle and added 8* of timing at anything bwloe 2500RPM or 40% load. Also adjusted minsparkidle. Runs great now. Def make sure you TPS is good.
 

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Forgot to mention make sure you reset the memory on the ecu so it can relearn the idle. Idle with all accessories off till it warms up completely, then idle with a/c on at least one minute. Then take it for a drive on highway and stop and go traffic. Before we got my tune fixed even after messing with tps and such it would still die if I just pressed the break to hard because there wasn't enough vacuum I guess.
 

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You need a tune.
 
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Yea I am going to be getting tuned hopefully next week
 
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