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Throttle body and Intake plenum problems!!

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i have a 2000 Mustang GT i just recently installed a 75mm throttle body and upper intake plenum (both Power Products) the only reason i picked these 2 is because they were on craigs list cheap, so i couldn't pass them up, but anyways...i have been having problems with bad idling (700 rpms down to 500rpms and then back up to around 1000) and then it would stall..i would come to a stop and my car would just die...i put a new idle control valve on and that still hasn't fixed the problem...my next step was to go ahead and replace the throttle control sensor to see if that would do anything...any other suggestion please let me know before i take these two off and sell them and just put the stock back on..another question is what are the barbed fittings that come with the upper intake plenum for?.. should i try using the bigger sized one?
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Two things I can think of:

(1) The throttle plate set screw has been adjusted from the factory setting.
(2) There is a vacuum/air leak somewhere or a vacuum line not connected.

If you disconnected the battery during the install, it will take a few drives for the computer to relearn its parameters. If this is the case, start the car and let it try to idle without touching the gas pedal. If it stalls, restart it and let it try until it relearns what it needs to idle smoothly.

The different sized barbs are to allow the intake to be used in a 96-04 Mustang 4.6L engine which had 2 or 3 different vacuum line/manifold connection hose sizes over the years. Use the one that fits your application.
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