Hi, I followed Craigs Braces' write up for grounding my
VTC's, and it really seems quiet after driving 70 miles.
The only thing I noticed, was when I put the clutch in
at stop signs and lights ,it goes down to 3-4 hundred rpms
and then comes back up to normal. Then it misses a little now,
but all other ranges in rpms' sounds and feels smooth and
sometimes appears the have more power in mid and upper
rpms.Now, the questions. What others+'s other than
quieting the tapping are there if any? And what, if any damage,
this might cause leaving it grounded?

 

My experience from grounding the vtc's has been similar to yours over the past 3 yrs/100,000 miles except my car has never missed...

I think if this bypass/grounding was damaging to the engine,then i would have seen i sign of it by now...

 

Ditto on all this

 

I grounded mine on my old engine and it never idled right. Sometimes when I pushed in the clutch, it would just die.

I didn't care for that much, so I just ungrounded them and listened to to the diesel sound.

I only had them grounded for a couple weeks, and I drove maybe 100 miles at the most. I don't know if driving more or for a longer time will help correct the idle problems, either.

 

Yeah, I had this problem, I bumped up the timing a little, adjusted the IACV screw a little, and now it's fine, at a stoplight, I sit at about 750, with occasional blips up to above 950