friggin think moves and im still breakin in the clutch and the rear so im not goin above 3500 rpms. car has so much more sac than the TR224 and down low. cant wait to see what it does up top!! but the damn car wont idle. im stallin at every light and cant dyno tune it for 500 miles till the clutch and rear break in. any suggestions till i get her tuned??? no surgin on the highway. nothing

 

Might drill the TB air bleed hole, definetly agree on the FM11.

 

I'm a novice, so take it for what it's worth, but I've read that a lot of people with A4's would drill out the hole in the TB "butterfly" (or what ever its called) to get the car to idle after a cam install. Maybe drilling out the TB will get you by until you get a tune.

Hope that helps,

Jim

 

My FM13 should be here Monday

 

i have a 6sp and on vettes i dont think u can drill the throttle body. thanks for the replies. keep the ideas comin guys. i cant stand drivin the car stallin at every light. i look like a jackass

 

Does the vette have the idle adjustment screw like the fbods? If so you can use that as a temp solution to your stalling.

 

i dont know but i will ask around. thanks

 

just found out it doesn't . The throttle is a fly-by-wire setup; controlled by the PCM computer.

 

I am sorry dude I didn't realize your weren't driving a real car Looks like tuning is your best bet.

 

what are the specs on that cam...

 

Mine speced out at 228/230-575-597-112 +4. Numbers in sig.

 

Mine speced out to 227/229 576/596 114+4

 

sweet! I can't wait to put in my FM13 tomorrow!

 

you don't need a dyno tune to get it to idle and you don't need to drill the tb blade either. the tuner can change the iat and other things to work it out. maybe cll allen and he'll tell you what needs done. find someone who's tuned his cams if possible. only took my tuner (LT1Dave & NB99Z) 10 minutes to straighten out exactly the same issues with my fms11. my wife drives the car now it's so smooth. pm me if you need more info, chris.

 

F11 does rock

 

Not familiar the Vette's FBW setup... there's no throttle cable adjust for a slightley higher idle until you can tune?

 

Just have the tuner up the idle a little to get you by until the break in is done.

 

You need Hptuners or edit. If you have it you need to adjust the VE tables at the low rpms. This will help you out by actually leaning the car out at startup (won't die on you) and also fix your surging issues. You'll also need to change the IAC settings as mentioned. If you've got the software pm me and i'll tell you exactly what needs to be done.

 

i dont have any software

 

I know for a fact that not only can you drill a hole in your stock C5 throttle body it is just about a necessity to do so to get your C5 to idle once you cam her up! YES, i speak from PERSONAL experience!