You know Dave, I have no idea.

As I posted earlier, everything led me to a spark problem.
But it can't be a coincidence that after removing the ICV and cleaning it up, the car starts right up.

I guess the valve in the ICV could have been stuck in such a position that the car was having an issue with the amount of air that was getting in there during a hot start, but there should have been spark; but what do I know.

I even double checked for spark with a timing light.

But what I do know is that ICV was making a funky "clicking" sound, as I had my head in the engine bay.

Electrical connection? Not being an electrical guy, there had to be something going on, because it was making a clicking noise. So could the valve have been stuck? I think so, because it was making noise. I did leave out, from my earlier post, that I cleaned the heck out of the ICV with carb cleaner. It was pretty dirty in there.

So in the end, I guess it was the ICV, electrical or a stuck valve - I don't know.