Thread: 96 Saturn SL1
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Old 01-05-2012, 10:28 AM   #83 (permalink)
theycallmeebryan
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2003 Ninja EX250 - '03 Kawasaki Ninja EX250
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Have you noticed any engine revving when pushing in the clutch?

It's a huge annoyance with my car. When I go to shift, I'll push in the clutch and the motor will rev up a good 2-300rpms (sometimes a little more). Also, When I'm in 5th gear and I go to push in the clutch to shift to nuetral, it will rev up first, then it will hang at 1500rpms while I'm rolling. It will only go down to 800rpm idle speed if i come to a complete stop.

I know why the car is doing this, but the fact that it happens often is annoying. Basically, the car is learning my driving habits, which happens to mostly be Pulses between 2-4 Vacuum followed by shifting to neutral and killing the engine.

The only thing that seems to fix it is disconnecting the battery overnight to reset the ECU. After a week, the symptoms will come back.

From what i read, it seems to be a common issue with these cars.

I wish i could manually disable the IAC above 1000rpm's or something.
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