Okay, I've spent well over 2 hours trying to figure out how to get the photo of the part here, but I give up. Anyway, it IS the part I thought it was originally. What fooled me was they left the housing unit and took out the solenoid inside. It's an IAC solenoid valve, located above the (if you are facing your engine) block and the battery, but forward of both towards the rad. It's silver (heck, I'll just send the image to Axe so maybe he can put it up if needed).

As I said before, great acceleration, perfectly smooth rpm at idle. Gas mileage I don't know yet. But I will repeat what I suspected before -and was confirmed by the service manager today: this mod is only useful to those in year round warm weather. Otherwise It would be like having no choke of some kind like we had on older cars.

So I'm pretty happy as I have considerably more power than before, with apparently no negative effects. I forgot to ask what model years this mod is good for aside from mine.....


Canuk in d' Philippines

'97 4x4 Sportage DOHC SOLD!
2000 4X4 Grand Sportage long body Turbo SOLD <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
Bought another (standard length) 2000 Turbo Intercooler Diesel auto4X4 smile