popping/burble at idle

[68442]

Would a popping at idle be a sign of bad valves? I replaced the valve seals which stopped the terrible smoking. Otherwise the car seems to run good.

 

[And_44]

A possible leak somewhere exhaust, intake mani, injector. Though some poping and noise is just the way our turbo exhaust sound. I love my decel in gear. Quieter then the Turbo Neon's but noticable;D

 

[EagleTSIawd]

That popping means your deadtime settings on the injectors are a bit off.

I see you have dsmlink, go to ecmlink.com and follow the fuel trim video demo to correctly set up deadtime.