Idle control valve!?

[Borderbmw]

Ca anyone tell where i can find my ICV or even what it looks like? Ive looked at various pics of them on here and i dont recognise anything in my engine bay so far! Ive got a 1987 320i,i have got a silver tube with four small branches under the inlet manifold(but i dont think thats it?),ijust want to clean it out as its idling is lumy as a very lumpy thing indeed!

[Borderbmw]

Sorry should have said,silver thing with branches has got 4 hoses attatched and is bolted to the engine.

[320Touring]

this should help (its a post facelift pic......) but its in the same place

[Borderbmw]

just been out for a look and where you icv is ive just got a 3 way black plastic tube!?

[Borderbmw]

ive got some pics of my engine bay but i dont know how to get them on here

[320Touring]

hmm! go to http://imageshack.us/index3.php

and click on browse, select the pic and then click host it

copy and paste the 'hotlink for forum !' into your post et voila...

[Borderbmw]

hang on ill have a go!

[Borderbmw]

hang on ill have a go!

[Borderbmw]

I cant get it to work,my pc wont transfer the jpeg for some reason!

[320Touring]

just thinking-does the early m20 have an ICV?!

[Borderbmw]

Im not sure,but i was thinking that when i couldnt find one obviously,because its quite hard to miss.

Sorry for the delay,i had to go out to the post office to post my mums b'day pressie,murder if id forgotten! ,had to go to peebles tho as our cash machine was empty as usual! ,and ive just seen something that brought tears to my eye's!

[320Touring]

what was it?!

[Borderbmw]

Sorry bastard computercrashed for reason,it was a 54 plate carbon black M3 been barrel rolled into a roadside ditch,i know one of the policeman there and he sadi the numpty driver had turned the traction control thinking he was Colin Macrae!

Reminds me of my exboss who bought a 02 plate smg convertable,and thought he was the worlds greatest driver! Until he came to a trackday me and my mate were at,and one of the instructors gave him a lesson in driving with the TC off,mainly sideways at high speed! ,he puked in his own car then went home very quietly!!!!! twat!!!!!

[320Touring]

hopefully the dude is ok?!

just goes to show that the e36/46 m3's are becoming all too common 'hairdressers' cars

[Borderbmw]

He was fine standing at the side of the road getting grief of his missus!!!!

[Andy_magic]

Can you imagine the grief if you just binned your new car...

I'm guessing that your car isn't motronic?

[Borderbmw]

Nope,L-Jetronic im thinking,but looking at haynes and bentley books i think ive got bits of k and L jetronic on there!!!!!!?????

[Borderbmw]

I must stop eating chocolate or ill turn into a fat bastad!!! ....ooops i forgot im already a fat bastado!!!!

[320Touring]

cos its an '87 it could have a 'barstewardised' system with parts from both?!

[Borderbmw]

Think it might,which makes it all so much fun!!!

[Borderbmw]

So are you at work then or lounging about like me at the moment?

[320Touring]

'working' after a fashion...

answering phonecalls from dumb people responsible for investing other people's money

[Borderbmw]

Sounds good,we like talking to dumbpeople,i couldnt work in a call center,id be telling them all to go forth and multiply!! ,because there dozy twats!!

[Borderbmw]

have hoovered(dysoned?) car and it is now about half a ton lighter! just need to empty the boot of tools and were laughing ,gonna take clocks out this afternoon and see if i can cure dodgy fuel gauge by tightening securing nuts,and might paint needles red coz i like em,not to be an alpina wannabee

[320Touring]

lol at the 1/2 ton lighter!!!

i've currently got all the stuff I need for working on my car and my dad's 5 series in the boot of the touring-seriously loaded!!!!

makes no difference once you're up and running tho

[Borderbmw]

very true,it just feels a bit quicker on pulling away! if you ever need a hand with anything just give me a shout mate.

[rickk]

back on topic:

L-Jet doesn't have an ICV. It only has something called an 'extra air valve' or something which isn't controlled by the ECU, but purely 'mechanical' (a 'bimetal' or whatever it's called in English by coolant temperature..

Should indeed be some aluminium tube thingy with 2 coolant and 2 air hoses going to it..

- Rick

[Borderbmw]

Thats exactly what ive got Rick,sorry for the wandering topic......we go off to our special places somtimes!!!

[Borderbmw]

Ive just had a thought,ive got l-jetronic on my car and the throttle body ive bought is i think a motronic one(has a multipin black box on the side),so im pretty much thinking it aint gonna fit!?