Dave, There are some things i do to car's and some I don't. I felt my car was a little sluggish, so not having all the tools to tune up myself, I left this to the experts and i took it to DMC Houston for a tune up. Came back running great and at 900 rpm. Could my gauge be off: sure. But that's what it say's and it runs great and has good gas milage. John --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx> wrote: > I was helping out another DMLer yesterday with a problem that has me > scratching my head a little. The original complaint was that the car will > either idle at 850 rpm (normal) or, as you tip-in the throttle, jump > immediately to about 1200+. Makes it hard to make a smooth start in a