You can sometimes get a hanging idle without it in place. Sometimes...
really, the correct way to do this after a 5-spd swap is to chsnge the trans harness to the one that has the provision for the NGS, and repin the o2 harness for manual trans, and run the manual ECU.
can you run the auto conputer? Sure. I did. But every once in a while I’d get a hanging idle that would correct when you pushed the clutch in. This is because the clutch switch and NGS are wired in parallel and either one, when closed, will tell the ECU the trans is in nuetral (or clutch in) and may command a different idle setting.