If you kept your foot on the gas, she hummed like a Honda.
But, she just wouldn't hold an idle. Then I remember hearing, if there's an air leak, it won't idle. So we poked around with the flash light and don't you know it, we found the air leak.
The big fax air hose from the air cleaner box to the throttle body (remember this is a fuel injected model) was ragged and full of holes. So, I covered her up with my glove, neighbor started her up , and she hummed along at about 100 RPM.
Well, at 11:00 on a Saturday night, we aren't finding airbox hose for an 81 TR7 anywhere! I don't think we'd find it at noon on a Monday. either.
but, I'll tell you what I did have... gorilla tape. Three strips around covered the hole thing, and guess what. We played with the timing, then took her for a ride. She ran just fine.
So, I got a guy coming tomorrow morning to check her out, let's hope he likes it.
-Tim
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