[Updated on: Wed, 22 December 2004 00:12]

White86 -

When you speak of throttle body wear - it sounds like you mean play in the butterfly shaft, rather than the body itself? Not sure about car T/B's, but from rebuilding yamaha kart engines, typically the bore only wears out if the butterfly is installed backwards (kart ones have tapered edges to seal properly against the bore when throttle is closed), and the reversed taper edge wears away the bore. If this is what you mean, then I'd imagine you can get T/B rebuild kits which include butterly/ shaft/ spring/ bush? (but perhaps these are different between rwd & fwd throttle bodies? - I really don't know?)

Having said that, kart engines clock bugger all hrs compared to a daily driven car, so perhaps my comparison isn't valid anyhow -I suppose the shaft bores flog out eventually.


Loki Boy-

I am experiencing exactly same problems - it's like you are describing my car. Have you checked the igition timing by the way? Mine has an additional issue where it won't idle below an "indicated" 25 deg btd, and it runs rough all round. This is related to seperate issues though, not likely your car would do this aswell.

There are some truly disgraceful converter's around, you couldn't call them mechanics at all . I should have learned more about this motor before I bought a car - would have saved me alot of time & money if I had picked how shit the conversion was when I appraised the car..I would have left it well alone.

Good luck, if I get to the bottom of it before you i'll let you know.

scott

[Updated on: Thu, 23 December 2004 00:32]