idle air valve
 

I was reading a book about tuning and notice a section about idle air valve and superchargers and how some recommend letting the IAC take air from a atmo source instead of the pressurized intake system.

With megasquirt will the idle valve ever truly close with proper settings. I was thinking about trying this but unless I can make sure it fully closes when not in use for idle than it would also become a big air leak.

IIRC ours will leak under boost.

Did you not install a 1 way check valve on the line from the IAC? One is included in the JRSC kits and prevent exactly that. I don't see why this wouldn't work for turbo guys as well.

are you venting the IAC to atmo and using a check valve to prevent air under boost to leak though the iac?

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That is the question

If you program it correctly, yet it will close, no different than unplugging it. That is not to say that it can't leak (which would be a mechanical fault and would occur with any type of engine management), but if both sides of the valve are plumbed into the intake, the leak would be incidental.

When my valve is "closed" (i.e. min. duty cycle), I can still idle at like 600RPM, that would suggest it would leak if plumbed to ATM.

What changes when the valve is unplugged?

Also the idle valve isn't the only place where air can get in. Check out the throttle blade itself too. It doesn't close 100%. There's also the throttle bypass screw. Half the race cars I see don't have IAC, but they all still start/run/drive. ;)

true.

No, the hose comes from the valve, with a 1 way check valve in place, and then into the intake, not atmo. This way even if it does leak the check valve will stop it from being a boost leak.

I don't understand the point of the check valve in this instance.

If the air valve leaks when closed, and you're boosting boost will enter both the hose for the idle valve and the TB and all is normal.

If the air valve leaks when closed, but it's getting air from VTA, when you're boosting, boost will exhaust from the idle valve and all is bad.

The hose from the valve connects to the intake before the supercharger. So if it leaks when boosting it will act as a boost leak. With the MS1 this is a really good thing because funky things happen to idle when you set the closed(dc) to 0.

I was firguring there is more air to had from having it open to ATMO so it can react quicker to the air right there versus the air in the intake system.

*sigh* Mine is VTA.

but that's an if.

I haven't had idle control on my Miatas for almost 2 years n started out with it leaking when I had the ms, and now with the haltech I don't runone because it can only control open loop idle so I didn't bother hooking it up. I don't have stalling issues and I have a supercharger.