ok guys, i got that MAF sensor off my car and am trying to figure out how to remove the net that slowing the air to the engine down. Also I noticed the attached elbow seems to be part of it, can that be removed with out cuting it. Any help i would apprieciat it!

 

leave the one on your car alone, there is a reason for the screen.

If you want a modified one for the track, get one from a salvage yard & then modify.

 

That screen is there to straighten airflow as it comes around that elbow... leave that screen there with that elbow.

 

like all the others said leave it alone....

i removeed one and idled like crazy.....

so i put it back on and evertyjing became fine....
the MAF is xpensive so dont play with it ....

 

I agree with Graeme! I pulled the screen on my Firebird, too- then promptly got the Service Engine Soon light, and an error code for "low air flow". The screen's back in. Camaros have a straight-on intake, and won't get the error code.

 

Mine runs fine without it , but if I had to do it again . I would not pull it out , b/c I hear too many people having problems ..LEAVE IT IN THERE !

 

ok wayne ...

ive asked this to dozens of ppl here
whats ur setup for a ram air ... do u have pics...

 

It's really just the bottems of filter boxes chopped off .I dont have any tubing b/c I really dont need it .I have one of those grills that kinda looks like mini-blinds that are tilted upward , so when the air enters my grill areau it pushes the air up to the filter boxes .If you look under your boxes you prabably have a flat black piece of plastic , I took that off so the air can get to the filters .It works really well , after I completed it I knowticed a big difference , atleast 10 hp .Sorry I dont have any pics to show you .

 

ok im gonna follow ur advice here

bcos i have the same grill and the same blcak piece...
the problem was i could never get that flex tubing mentioned here


https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/ramair.shtml

i do have a pair of K&Ns

and tell me whats the air silencer .....

 

and outta curiosity doesnt ur filters get dirty??????

 

Thats why you clean them ...I cleaned mine after 10k miles that I had them in , but they really didnt need it .I will check them once in awhile , just to make sure . But the way they looked at 10k miles , I prabably wont clean them but every 25k miles . I was driving under real dusty road construction conditions so thats what I cleaned them sooner .

 

Leave the air silencer ( proper name MAF SCREEN) in there .I just call it air silencer b/c some people call it that . Most people say dont take them out b/c your car will idle funny .Mine does not idle funny .But if I had to do it all over again . I WOULD NOT take it out and chance idling problems and running rough .

 

I told you not to remove it but didnt tell you what it is ..sorry lol .The air silencer ( proper name MAF SCREEN) IS THE mesh screen with a ga-jillion holes in it that covers the MAF (mass airflow sensor) to protect it from debry and debry getting in your engine which may squeeze pass filters .

 

When I cut the bottems out of my boxes I left the center piece in for extra support to hold the K&N'S but it will prabably be ok if you cut it .

Sorry for bein such a postwhore guys !

 

ok wayne ... im gonna cut that out tomm... im also gonna leave the centre piece in there....

tell me this u first remove the two flap pieces by removing the screws/....

and then both sides of the filter box has holes .... u cut it all out is it ??????

 

Correct , take those off . Then you can either cut the whole bottem off along the edges of the bottem and leave the piece between the flaps to help support them , or just cut the whole thing .I left that center piece just to give them some support .Buts its prabably not needed ...Wish I had my digital camera working , Id snap some shots for ya .But I have a defective memory card , Im waiting on another one to come in , anyway have fun man !

 

hey wayne ...
give me a picture when u get the camera ... i would definitely like to see the pictures.... maybe i outght to wait and see what u have done....

 

Damn, WaynesRS post whoring

 

haha , Im actually LOL-ING now ..LAUGHING OUT LOUD ..heh


YEAH IM JUST A BIG-OLE POST ***** WALKING THE STREETS OF THIRDGEN AVE ..heh ... J/K GUYS !!!!!! LoL



And our "word of the day" Ladies and Gentlemen is "whoring"

 

Don't wait on me man , LoL .B/c it might take me till next year until I get it working , plus I will be busy starting tues with the new semester beginning .But I will be getting on here atleast once a day to brouse around and post , so just shoot me your questions .Feel free to e-mail me man - Camarow313@aol.com
dont forget the "w"after the camaro , alot of people do Camarow313@aol.com.

 

By the way PROJECT 85 2.8 , where you been man ? Have not seen you around lately ? You didn't head off to kill OSAMA did ya in Aghcanastein ?

here i go post whoring again huh ?