Hey Guys,

Im picking up the torch where Audible left off. Bought his MAF housing and have it all installed and running great.

Stock figures are:

Maf ======== 72mm
Intake pipe ===72mm
TB ==========70mm

Larger Pieces

Maf =========80mm
Intake pipe====85mm
TB========== 2mm oversize at 72mm, with the inlet enlarged to 78mm.

Have everything installed with a Crawford V5 Plenum. Going to do some before and after dynos sometime with in the next 2 weeks.

Dyno's i plan to do with the mods i have:

Dyno one ==== Stock plenum, stock intake pipe and Maf housing.
Dyno two ==== Crawford Plenum, stock intake pipe and Maf housing
Dyno three====Crawford Plenum, Large intake pipe and larger Maf housing.

I have a Utec and already have the maps ready to go, i just need to find time to get to the dyno. Will post results when i have them.

Later
Aceman

 

Way to go Aceman, looking forward to seeing the results...

 

+1

 

Thanks Gunser,

I know the car does pull alot harder with the addition of the larger housing and intake pipe. Finally able to take advantage of the larger Throttle body thats been on the car for awhile.


If you guys have seen some of my threads, you know i like to dyno everything i do

Later
Aceman

 

were did you get the larger MAF, TB, and intake pipe ?

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Can't wait to see these results. Where did you get the TB from?

 

Larger Maf is from a Ford Lighting i believe ( bought from Audiblemayhem )
Larger Throttle body was stock bored out by ProFlow Design
Larger Intake pipe ( bought from Audiblemayhem )

Cant wait to get it all on the dyno


Later
Aceman

 

Nice work.

 

Awesome Aceman Thats sounds good...

Do you track your car? Just wanted to see what your numbers were.

Thanks for going further with the "project "'get sum Hp out of VQ""

 

Best time i have had in the 1\4 has been 13.4 at 104mph..


Look for dynos sometime next week.


Later
Aceman

 

great to see you helping out the z community once again with your time and dynos.

good luck with the project and keep up the hard work

 

Whats alittle time and dime, if i can help out others.

And Plus, i enjoy it.

Later
Aceman

 

any update on this???

thanks!

 

The plan was to get it on the dyno last week. Weeeeeeelll i snapped a axle

So i am going to try and get it done in the next couple weeks.


later
Aceman

 

aceman, what the heck happened...snappage of the axle....damn

covered under warranty i hope

 

^^ yeah what happened?? I really wanted to see these results. Get that axle replaced man!! subscribed.

 

Must be one heck of an airflow mod if you snapped an axle!!!

Seriously though..had one question... If you are using a Lightning MAF is there any scaling or computation required to translate MAF voltage output? Eg., even if the Lightning's MAF sensor is 0-5v, would it not still have a different resolution for air molecule sensitivity than the sensor wire used in the Z? Or is a MAF a MAF, and they all read using the same scale?

I'm very interested in the results. I've always been a skeptic about large-bore TBs, enlarged MAFs, and other "breathing mods" beyond CAI. The motor simply does not need more air delivered than that provided by a CAI. So unless it's pushed in (via FI) then your intake will never create enough of a pressure differential between the TB and the intake to really use all the extra air.

But motors these days, even in the last 10 years, have surprised me along these lines as to how much more gain can be made from things like larged MAF and TB. Shows how detuned the induction systems have become in favor of noise and emissions compliance.

And I realize it's an "every little bit counts". But you have to excuse my skepticism... I've seen large bore TBs installed on LT1 and LS1 V8s with little-to-no-effect in either VE or performance. So I have to wonder what it would do for an NA V6 with only 3.5L of displacement.

I hope to be wrong though. And of course the gains have more to do with your other mods in this case. But I am very interested in these results! Keep us posted!

 

Yeah........ axle snap... must be a defect right? there's no way that the damage could've been caused by abuse, right?

 

The axle snap was caused by him running slicks and not pre-loading the drivetrain. He explained this in the drag section, they fixed the damaged axle pretty quick.

 

Yeah I know... considering the average joe doesn't go to the drag strip, I think that can be considered abuse