Thread: Cold idle RPM gems V8

Check on the earthing problem; I will give it some attention and perhaps, indeed, run an old piece of welding cable I have laying around as earth to bypass the body/chassis.

Regarding the cam: I never looked at it that way I always figured, when wheeling and reaching a tough spot, say a muddy hillclimb, one usually chooses a gear and give it the boot. In those situations I definatly need the power curve to be above 2000rpm. Perhaps I am wrong here? I do notice the car to be sluggish in normal traffic but the 32" tyres combined with the standard diff ratio's does tend to do that anyway. I am not bothered by it really. It could still be though that the cam has too much overlap as suggested.

And hills? HA! you gotta be kidding me mate we have 2 to be exact and they are not what you would call a hill :P There is the "utrechtse heuvelrug" which is a ridge that was formed during the last ice age.
Utrecht Hill Ridge - Wikipedia
as you can see, with 68m at the highest point... not even worth mentioning. A 7% slope is the best I can give you over here Also there is a bit of a hill close to germany and way down in the south, none of them are more than a speedbump I suppose

The IACV I have right now is indeed a GM unit that fits the GEMS perfectly, except for the connector beeing at a different angle. When funds allow I will try the genuine article. I'll also try and record what the engine does using my faultmate but it seems that the ECU actually closes the IACV once a certain vehicle speed or engine rpm has been reached. Do you know of any such mechanic in the system to, for instance, avoid overspeeding or over idling?

Cheers,
-P

A quick observation to add:

My daily driver conked out, fuel pump issues, so I took the range to get to work through heavy traffic. Since I was in a bit of a hurry I just started the car and drove of, never really reaching the point of crawling in idle, which in my mind is something that currently has to be done when cold to make sure it does not stall in idle later on. Once the engine heated up I had to stop for lights and the engine nearly stalled. Stop and go driving with the left foot on the brake and the right on the accelerator was getting real boring real fast though (to keep the engine running) so I turned of at a service station and turned the car of for a few minutes.

After starting her up and crawl forward for a couple of meters the idle issue was fixed and I got through the rest of traffic no drama's.

If the IACV is indeed buggered (wrong type) I would not expect restarting the car to fix the problem though I must admit that I tried restarting the vehicle to allow the IACV to reset itself to a default position (it does that when turning the car of for longer than xx seconds)

With my daily driver eating up funds to get fixed, buying a proper IACV is still on the horizon but I found this to be curious behaviour and thought I'd share

cheers!

-P