Honda Car Forum

Try removing your Negative battery cable for 1 hour
then put back on and start your car and let idle for 15-20 minutes. that
should take care of the prob.
this resets the ECU it will learn the new settings.

Jim
"Chris" <csanscrainte@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I just installed a cold air intake on my 90 honda accord. Its gone
> wacko since, namely the idle. Has anyone had any experience with
> this? Where should I start looking? I noted a number of systems
> which may be malfunctioning in the service manual - but I would rather
> have some experienced insight before I go tearing apart things, which
> may or may not be the cause.
>
> The car is an automatic (I know loss of power, why do it - its my toy
> though). I am thinking the ECM might be messing up.
>
> The car idles fast, and drops unexpectedly when slowing only to jump
> back up to around 1500 rpm's. The idle adjustment screw had little
> effect.
>
> Hope there is someone out there who had this happen. AEM does not
> have any helpful tidbits out there.
>
> Thanks in advance.