I have been staring at my FI pulleys all day wondering and worrying and waiting about some silly little thing that's gonna add up to nothing (Tom Petty)

I was thinking N/A and hating myself and life and why I ever put all this crap on my car when I started following all the extra boost and intake hoses etc. I ended up at the MAF just above a T line.

Now looking at this peice it appears shorter than the CAI tube my blower came with.

So I got to thinking, what about this as a power adder?

Sell a CAI that *includes* a larger MAF housing bolted on to it, instead of these CAI's that use our stock MAF!

Their is some discussion on "maxxed out MAF's" so why not make the housing bigger then reprogram the ECM to read more air?

While your at it enlarge the TB too!

One peice from the filter all the way to the plenum including TB!

Retain the MAF but write a program for it that makes it read more air?

FBODS enlarge their MAF's and TB's every day for power gains sometimes up to 2 tenths in the 1/4 for a few hundred.

Would something like this be doable?

A larger MAF housing with a slot and bolts built into it for the MAF?

One less place to leak air too!

Make it happen man!

 

I wondered if just a spacer that the actual sensor goes in, moving the sensor slighty out of the tube, freeing up some free air. On my old Ford MAF, I completly cut out the bridge that went from on side to the other, just leaving the sensor. It was a vary easy way to get more flow. Wish I had access to a bridgeport again........

 

So there is potential for more air, OK, would the stock ECM relearn it? My reflashed TS one does.

 

From what i remember on the ford, the MAF still read the same, but more air was flowing, which could lean it up some but i never saw any real threat. Now i'm not sure what other processes are involved to add more fuel if needed. I'm sure that raising our MAF out some would flow a few more CFM's, this would need to be flow tested somehow......

 

I don't really understand what you mean when you say one piece including the TB. The idea about enlarging the MAF housing makes perfect sense to me, but it would be retarded to make a CAI that is one piece from Plenum to filter. It is very convenient to be able to remove the top tube of my intake without having to remove the whole assembly. I'm not sure how the JWT pop charger works, but can't you still remove the top tube without taking out the MAF housing and filter?

I just think from a design standpoint, that working on the car with a multi-part intake tube is beneficial.

 

Well the MAF itself would pop out then you just lift out the CAI.

Well at least enlarge the MAF housing others are already doing the TB.

It just seems like a gimme to me and I question why it hasn't been done yet or even talked about. More air is GOOD.

The ECM will relearn and adjust to it, if not reflash that sucka!

 

On most hot wire type setups, increasing the diameter of the pipe skews the results the MAF sends to the ecu, so you'll need a way to compensate on the ecu side (E manage, etc.).

 

I can do that for more air, not sold on the E-Manage myself though, it's sounds like a hack job and the tuner hear quit tuning with them.