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    Idle Dip When Shifting Into Neutral Or Throttle Blip

    Good morning all! A little back story on my situation. I bought a LS1 with a tuned ECU from an 01 Trans Am many years ago. The guy I bought it from was using it as his daily but was wanting to go bigger so he sold it to me. I have the motor in my 05 Infiniti G35 with a T56 from a 06 GTO. The motor runs great and pulls hard. I am not running a wideband because the guy I bought it from was using it as his DD and had it dyno tuned. I have not made any changes to the fuel and/or spark tables.

    I have had a throttle dip issue since the beginning. It will happen when the car is cold or hot. It happens in neutral and also while cruising if I shift into N to coast and let off the gas. The RPMs will sometimes dip once and then recover and other times they seem to dip 4 or 5 times and then recover. I have learned to blip the throttle a bit when they start to fall to prevent stalling but this can get tricky in heavy traffic and I am getting tired of it. The car will rarely die if I don't do anything to help the idle when it is dipping. I have attached 2 logs - 1 of me cruising and then shifting into N and the other is of me idling and then blipping the throttle (both logs were done on a warm engine).

    The engine mods are as follows - 01 LS1, PRC Heads, MS4 cam, Speed Density, FAST 102, Long Tubes

    1-28-2022.hpt
    Cruising Neutral Shift Throttle Drop.hpl
    Warm Idle Throttle Blips.hpl

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    No expert here...
    I notice your idle air control is at 1 step while idling
    Your base running airflow seems stock
    In the picture this table is zero in a lot of areas and I'm not sure why (maybe someone who knows can chime in

    Search for Russ K idle tuning and go through that procedure and I bet you will fix the problem
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    It's too rich at idle. It needs some tuning on the fuel table. Just like dhoagland mentioned, the base airflow table is stock. It needs a bit more airflow.

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    Thanks for the replies. I will check out the Russ K idle tuning methodology and look into the fuel table tweaking. I need to get a wideband setup before I start messing with the fuel table I reckon.

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    Just go off oxygen sensors for time being, they are very accurate to hit stoich

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