Yea I got the Resitor Mod that they were selling on ebay. I have it installed and NO SES light yet. Its to trick the car into thinking the air that the intake is bring in is cold making the car use more air/fuel. Did it help. Yes it did and no its not a mind thing. When I first installed the Frankencar And Had to relocate the IAT into the mid pipe I knew it would be feeling more heat off the engine. So at time I would deffintly notice a power loss. the car would would pull nice upto 4K rpm but then start pullin softer upto 6K rpm. But now sence I put that resistor in, that power loss is gone and the car dose pull stronger. Not night and day but There is a diffrence, I know because Im crazy about my car. And I alos had alittle shimmy when at idle and it to is gone.

It was only $8.00 so I said WTF. Now I don't feel so bad about it.

Just letting you guys know.

If were waiting for somone to try it.

 

If you don't mind, post details on what is wired to what.

In my honest opinion, it sounds like they are changing the current the ECU sends to the MAF, this will cause more harm than good in the long run.

SHIFT_woosh

 

You could have gone to radio shack, bought the same resister in a 5 pack, for like 2 bucks.

 

Of course you notice a difference... it would have been a waste of $8 if you didn't

 

But I had no idea what resistor to get. or I would have done that. DUH!!!

 

I just plugs right into the IAT you have to take off the Black thing and put the resistor inside.

 

Search... DUH!

 

Now you all got me wondering...does this mod help in anyway? I searched the web and from what I can tell it sends a signal to the ECU that the air coming into the intake is always cold. This results in an increase in fuel for the given amount of air, ie a more rich mixture.

This then results in more power, and the sites claim increase of 10-20 hp. Also, the timing is supposedly advanced.

Those who really know the VQ, what's your opinion?

 

1)Take it off, Dyno.
2)Put it back, wait 15 min, dyno again.
3)Post Results.

 

since there isnt an exact smiley for that here it goes:

"this post is useless without a dyno"

 

since no one said it yet...........you're

 

you couldn't figure it out from all the sarcasm??

NO!

the "gains" are in his head, trying to justify spending $8 on a $0.10 resistor that actuall does NOTHING!

 

ECU Fuel trims say "back to stock for jOO"


You should have gotten the synthetic resistor.

 

http://lisupras.com/wooo.html

 

DID a search but no one knew which ohm resistor to get. . . .

But anyway the car is still holding up good withthe resistor still in.
I will say throttle response has improved.
It is time for a dyno so when I get my b-pipe and Random Cat I will hook yall up until then the response and butt dyno is all good.

 

Dude, if you dyno AFTER you put your b-pipe and other stuffs, then you won't know if the RESISTOR actually contributed to the gains. So yeah, you get 5 hp more after the dyno, but it's all due to the b-pipe and other mods, not the resistor. Get what I'm saying?


~limsandy

 

Yes I get what your saying. The resistor can come out real easy. So before I get the dyno I will hook up the orignal sensor, get some runs in. And then put the resistor back and get more runs. Simple as that.

 

I'm confident the ECU will adjust out any differences it may have made... when I installed a small hyperground network under the engine bay, I noticed a difference too, until I realized the ECU was reset. I was pretty intrigued by the higher MAF reading on idle, until a couple days later I noticed the MAF reading was lower at idle, with approximately the same outside temperature. This was all before I removed the stock resonator/ramscoop. Bottom line is, small changes like this don't do squat in the long run.

 

does AEM make one?

 

 

He said his car pulled nicely up to 4k rpm before the resistor and then the acceleration would drop (maybe a VIAS problem or failing MAF). Now if it were a failing MAF that was causing his powerloss above 4k rom, and if he says that after the resistor was installed it helped him recover lost hp, would that resistor do an override on the MAF sensor? Or even if that was the case, would this be the $8.00 solution to a failing MAF? just throwing ideas here...

p.s. i know it plugs into the IAT though and not the MAF)

 

For the umteenth time.

The resistor mod is CRAP.

The ECU will adjust the fuel trims and make ANYTHING you do go away.

All your butt dyno are belong to us!

 

The ECU will accomplish that task by reading the O2 sensors.

If your car was actually dumping more fuel becuse it "thought" the air was cold, your A/F ratio would be off. If the ECU cannot adjust it back into spec and make the readings from the O2 correct, you'd throw a check engine light. There is no possible way that mod can do anything except make you pay $8 bucks for a resistor that costs .08 cents at any electronics store.

That mod ownes your wallet, nothing more.

 

Ok I get you guys point its crap, or is it? I don't know realy didn't care. I just had to try it. I knew I would get response like this but its cool, its a forum. But I don't have a check light. Car is still running just fine. Thank you guys for the feedback though!