BMW Repair: rough idle, miss, 1986 bmw 325, bmw 325


Question
I have a 1986 bmw 325, 6 cylinder.  Cold start up it runs fine for about 2-3 minutes on high idle.  After that it idles down, idle becomes very erratic, surging up and down.  When I apply throttle it starts to develop a high speed miss.  Pulled the plugs, they are covered with soot. Any ideas?  Thanks for the help

Answer
Bill,
 I could do a write up, but there is already one done on this, so I'll just give you the link to it.

 Here are two different ones:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/BMW/techarticles/JF-Tech/BMW_E30_3_Series_Idle_speed...


http://www.bmwe30.net/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=articles&report=view&ID=...

 Just copy the above web adresses into your browser and they should explain everything for you.

 If this doesn't solve the problem, check back and we'll go from there...
 
 Good luck,
 Josh