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Originally Posted by 38 Cigarette
Your capacitors inside the ECU are probably bad, leaking. Do a search on caps or capacitors. The caps are cheap to purchase but you need to be fluent with soddering to replace them yourself. Its a common problem on first gens.
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Given the litany of what what I had said that I had done to trouble shoot this issue over on the chicago board, that was a very good call Jamie.
Unfortunately, its been nearly a year since I changed out my caps, so I don't even think of that any more when I talk about troubleshooting, that was the FIRST thing I tried. I even inspeced the board at a magnified solder station (one of the perks of working at Motorola), and there was no decernable PCB damage.
Long ago I resigned myself to the reality that the more I did to the damn thing, the worse it would idle, the least it could have done was waited until I had a few more mods under the hood before it started to idle like shit.
Maybe I should have stopped with the same Mods as Ludak's mama (read his signature, then read mine), and not gone for more. But what fun would that have been?? 
As I said over on the other board, I have come to terms with it, yes it's an annoyance, but hey, thats the price of speed.