Black TL

My engine feels so heavy and I was wondering if anyone else feels this. It's like the engine just does not want to go. Also, there is a huge delay from the time I push the gas pedal to when the engine actually rev's. Is there anyway I can adjust this? I noticed this when I drove our 94 Accord today. The car's pedal is a lot more sensitive. Same with my cousins 99 maxima.

Thanks

Bitium

yes is very easy. on your throttle body, there are two throttle rotors with metal cables. The black one is cruise control. The gold one is the one you need to adjust.

Using a 12mm wrench, turn nuts to loose them up. then adjust by pulling and letting the cable sit a little tense, like about to move the throttle rotor. Hold it, then tight the nuts. That's it.

Black TL

Thanks!

dimsumo

So the delay is cause from the slack of the cables....So wouldn't tighting it make the gas petal more "sensitive"

Bitium

more sensitive in the way, that you touched and it accelerates. Just like new.

patrick

Bitium, so does this cable become loosen over time, or is it something the dealer's mechanic fiddled around with? BTW, what do you call this cable? Thx

Bitium

That is my guess, it loosen over time. That is the reason you are able to adjusted.

don't know what the cable is called.

Black TL

Ok, I was looking at it and I didn't know how tight to make it. It seems pretty tight but then again, I dont know squat about it. Also, I dont want to mess it up so that my car wont start or rev's up to 5000 rpms. If I went to the dealer, what can I tell them to do?

Thanks bitium

Bitium

Just tight to the point that the butterfly is not open. In other words, you don't move the throttle rotor. As long as is not loose it will be ok.

the worst that could happen if too tight (meaning the butterfly is open) would be that you will idle at 1k+ rpms. Don't think you want to do that, but it would NOT cause damage to the engine, uless you leave it like that for a long time(days or months) which I still think it won't affect anything major.

VTEC

BTW while u doing this, better have to engine running. Cause one time me and Allan[VTEC]TL tryin to doing this on his friend SC400.
After we tight it up and start the car. the SC wad idle at 5000 rpm.

Bitium

This can't happen on the TL, since the threads were the nuts are, can't move far enough to open the butterfly more than 25%.

eggbert

Yeah.. it sort of does that when not in Sport Shift. You can put it to the floor and it's like it has to take a big gulp of air before it decides to downshift.

Do you get a huge delay while in SS?

Black TL

My car does struggle downshifting when I am in traffic. It's like the tranny wants the engine to work hard but the engine is lazy.

KJ32

The cable is called throttle cable. The spec for cable deflection is between 10-12mm according to the service manual. You need to push the throttle link toward the throttle level until there's no clearance before checking. Hope that helps. But I think it's better to let the mechanic to mess around with it.