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95'clipseRS

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Jun 13, 2006
Sammamish, Washington
Here's the problem:
It idles fine for a few minutes, then it revs (by itself) up to 2000 rpms, ( I killed it before it went any higher). I installed a SRAI, (well sorta). By that I mean, it's from Iceman, I know woohoo, but I don't have an air filter yet, ( I'm on a very tight budget). Not sure if it's a vacuum hose problem or what. If someone could help me here, I would greatly appreciate it.

I haven't been able to drive the car because the tires I have on now have cracked side walls.
 
WEll man, put your stock intake back on until you can afford an air filter.

Clean air is better than cold air in terms of your NA application on this car.

Go over your instructions for the intake, but make sure everything you unhooked from the stock intake is hooked up again for the new intake.

Is that all you changed?
 
I know numerous people that when switching to an aftermarket intake accidently got something in the way of the throttle cable. I did this on my previous car when installing an intake by accidently getting one of the intake clamp screws too close to the throttle cable. Therefore, even if I had my foot off the accelerator pedal, because the clamp was in the way, the throttle cable couldn't release the whole way down.
 
just curious what kind of floor mats you have as well, because back in the day I used to have some black dimond plated mats.

Anyways one day I was testing out the car, after tweaking with the boost controller and fuel setup, and I was floored going down a side road, and I let off, but the car was still picking up speed. For a couple of hours I couldn't figure out what was wrong or why my cable was sticking when their was nothing in the way, until later that day I was getting in the car and realized that the floor mat had moved up since there is no whole for the hook, and when I depressed the pedal with the car off sure enough the pedal got stuck at WOT.

NOTE: While I was writing this story, it occured to me that you haven't been driving the car, and that you say it does it on its on at idle, so this probably isn't the answer, but I just wanted to put it out there.
 
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