Holy Crap! It's fast now! And it accelerates uphill! It even shifts smoothly! Wow! So this is how 603's are supposed to drive. I'm looking forward to timing a 0-60 tomorrow. And I'll top-off to see what I get for mpg.

Here's the quick rundown of what got done: Shopped my local stores for deoxit, none. Balked at a clone for $25/can. Instead I used a spritz o'brake cleaner with an air blast chaser, and some toothpicks. Cleaned the contact's MXFrank listed: skipping his #4 CPC, it's tape-splice, left it for later. Cleaned ELR plug, Temp plug, rack position sensor plug - pulling the vac-line hose "L" connector. So I'm staring at the elephant in the room, up tight under the injector lines, between the RPS and ELR - my virgin-looking ALDA. I'd read to p.20 of Brian Carlson's ADLA-removal thread that includes Dave Gsxr's tempered insights. So I threw all of my tools at ALDA and failed. I couldn't grip/break the ALDA's nuts! I bought a 24mm service wrench (thin enough to grip just the top nut) and made a pipe handle extension for it and finally broke the nuts and freed the ALDA. Rubic wrestled it way too long. Cleaned it off. Hacksawed gingerly around the ALDA's cap-base to expose the 10mm nut and set screw. cracked the 10 and backed out the screw all the way, gave back a tad and set the nut. Reinstalled. (including reconnecting all of the vac lines and wires and linkage bracket, all moved to nut the ALDA. Wiper fluid tank was still out of the way from the oil pressure sensor leak/replacement.

I didn't get into the flash codes but found all that back by the kilma. Jay Bob I'm hoping I don't have to go there. Diseasal, I found the ELR dial and lowered the rpm, thank you. MaxBumpo, plug-off and plug-on, seemed the same, maybe the plug-on connection was fouled - but I don't think it was dirty up in the plugs. I think everything helped, especially renutting the alda.

Thanks for the input, guys. And MXFrank, thanks for the list with tips like counter-clock on the rack position sensor. I've noted all of these recommendations and I'm kicking off a fresh assault on the ravages of time. I can hardly believe how nice it drove today! Tomorrow I'll do an early cold start, see how that goes. And I'll hit the freeway and get a 0-60 time, looking for smoke. There's got to be a catch, right?