My mechanic friend came over and did a simple unplug of the MAF, have me start the car, then he connected the MAF sensor. Car went a little rough then went back to it's normal idle for 1-2 minutes before it dies. which it never did for me when i tried this. It would die immediately after the MAF was plugged in.
He then said, try it again. Car fires up and stays idling!! He said, maybe you didn't let the car's ecu learn idle? waaaah??! He knew what to do, professional mechanic go figure, but he admitted that he didnt do anything lol. He spent like 5 minutes diagnosing the problem and fixed it like 5 minutes later.
I'm confused, it didn't seem like what I did was different from what he did. Maybe reseating the intake manifold gaskets actually did the trick?
Thanks to everyone that posted any advice. It really did help.
How does my everything look know in terms of the datalog? All good?
https://datazap.me/u/jrhudson/idles-...?log=1&data=20
3 logs.
i believe the 3rd one is the one from startup.