goolsbey wrote:Bob's Message:
"I had the same problem with no idle after start-up. Again, during a phone session with Mike Davies, we discovered that the IAC was not responding to input from the PE Monitor's IAC idle speed control slider. A quick trip to the local Advance Auto Parts and a new IAC was installed"
Bob, do you have a part # from Advance Auto? I want to toss one into my spare parts box. Any other parts #'s for spare items I should have is greatly appreciated, as I do mostly regional races with no CSR support. It would also be nice to be able to go to local parts store or Ford dealership in a pinch, if one fails.
As far as parts look up goes, what model of car does this engine come out of, for such things as sending unit sensors, relays etc? For some reason I believe the engines come outside of USA.
We did have idle problems, but the new software seems to take care of it except for one annoying situation. The car quits when you come in from a session. Could this be a IAC problem? If not has anyone else had this problem?
The Advance Auto Part number is 28940. The aftermarket brand is BWD. Price is $51.
Not sure of which Ford model it is from. As I recall, our 4,000-plus 1.9 engines were assembled in the U.S. from a variety of Ford parts, so specifying a model may not cut it. I believe the 1.9 head, which is a custom piece for SRF, was cast in Mexico.
As for the idle problems, post session, it
could be that your IAC Offset was set to about 190 degrees peak temperature and you may need to hook up the PE Monitor software and reset offset at a higher temp, like 200 degrees or a bit above (Mike Davies says 208 degrees would be the limit). Your CSR can provide instructions for that, which are pretty easy to follow.
For sure, from now on we're all going to need to be sure we have our laptops armed with PE Monitor software packed for every race weekend.