Idle Control

[onesixvee at yahoo.com (Robbie Cotner)]

The auxilary air regulator is a valve pretty much independent of the rest of the system. The auxilary air regulator is basically just a valve. It has some kind of metal element in it that changes shape when heated. This element pushes against a door that opens or shuts the valve(slowly). When you first start up your car, this element is cold and the door is open, allowing more air into the engine while it is cold(thus the idle is higher). After the car is started, the two wires running to the regulator activate a heating element which heats up and thus slowly shuts the regulator so that air can no longer pass and your idle becomes normal.  So just run 12V's to the aux air regulator that comes on with the ignition switch.  It only helps the idle when the engine is cold.
 
-Rob

Erik <pats16v@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
The stock Aux Air Regulator
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robbie Cotner 
To: Erik 
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Idle Control



What sort of idle control valve are you using?
 
-Rob 

Erik <pats16v@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
Hello all,

I am finally finished with the design stage of the MK1-Rewire. Stem to
stern it is all laid out . And since I am not using one bit of the factory
harness I have one queery.

And that is.....


How in the hell do I rig up the Idle Control valve? Really. Since this is
still using the 78' spec FI how does it know that the car needs to idle? If
I wire it up straight it would run all the time. So that is not an option.
Unless I want to burn it to the ground. Well that would be a good way to
strip the body down to bare metal. But that is next year.

Cheers,

Erik


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