i was wondering if anyone knows how to tighten the throttle cable on a g3 integra.

 

Sure do... now lets see if I can explain it...
Ok towards the front (front meaning toward the front of the car) of the throttle body you will see the throttle cable. There are two nuts on it one on top of a bracket type assembly and another on the other side of the bracket. You want to loosen the top nut (10mm I think) then loosen the bottom nut (this will tighten the cable the more you loosen the bottom the tighter the cable will be) then tighten the top bolt up. You will probly have to play around with this a few times to get your idle at 750 +/- 50 rpms. But also remeber you dont want the cable realy tight either.

Hope that helps

 

don't set your idle with the throttle cable!!
IT should have some play when properly adjusted.

 

if you use the throttle cable to adjust idle the ecu will never see closed throttle- on decel this will cause idle to fluctuate - if you cant obtain proper idle speed in the normal methods- something else wrong.

 

now let me get this straight. the throttle cable is the wire that is on the throttle body which is exposed sorta right? well if thats it all i see is two sets of nuts on the left and right holding the wire in place. are those the nuts i have to loosen up or am i looking at the wrong wire? the right side is hard to loosen up.

 

sorry i'm alittle new at this please read my message above

 

Yeah thats it.....actually the nut on the right should loosen after you loosen the left nut, since the left nut is what is actually holding the cable into the bracket. But like the guys say and I forgot to mention, you dont want to necessarly adjust the idle with the cable, if that is what you are doing (then there are more steps involved than what I said). Like what Teken said, and I wouldnt event adjust the idle with the cable I would use the idle adjustment screw and you also need to unplug the IAC valve if you are adjusting the idle.

 

i just want to get better throttle response and full wide open throttle. my car is a 99 ls auto. do you think by doing this i might screw something up??

 

Is your throttle cable loose at all?? I tightened my cable, but mine is a 95 so it did have some slack in it, as far as screwing things up I wouldnt think so, but being a 99 model I wouldnt think it should be that slacked off, but I am not sure. Maybe someone else can take it from here cause I dont know. Sorry

 

yes my throttle cable has some slack in it and thanx for your feedback. sorry if i bugged u at all.


peace out