[s-cars] miss at idle

[Matthew Russell]

Thanks John - that's good stuff.  I inspected the wires briefly where  
they route underneath, but didn't find anything alarming.  But i may  
need to fillet open the wrap with a blade and inspect more closely.   
(see next post).

Oh and i sure hope the new firmware fixes that... there's a couple  
work-around apps at the App store, but none are smooth enough for me  
to use all the time.

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Works beautifully.

-Matt


On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:19 PM, JC wrote:

> The other big suspect to me here is the wiring itself which is another
> notorious problem with this part of the car. If it's crumbling at  
> the POS
> connector it must be hard and cracking around where it exits the  
> coil cover
> I imagine?  You could easily have intermittent arcing and shorting  
> there not
> to mention just increased resistance as the copper tends to corrode  
> heavily
> where the cracks are.
>
> I just painstakingly replaced all my coil wiring with new high temp  
> telflon
> insulated wire a few weeks ago (pics posted on AW if you're interested
> http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/243208.phtml).  It's a slog of  
> a job
> though - plan a full morning with the soldering iron and wire  
> strippers.
> The wires are integal to the coils so to all our chagrin there's no  
> stock
> harness you can buy, you have to cut the OEM back to little pigtails  
> and
> splice onto that.
>
> If all that work sounds too daunting and non-value-added you might  
> jump
> straight to a new set of LS2 or 1.8T coils but of course attendant  
> expense
> there...
>
> (And hey new iPhone firmware is supposed to drop in the next few  
> days lets
> hope for cut & paste!)
>
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