Hey guys,

those with intakes or specifically the Berk intake, where did you place your air temp. sensor? My Berk intake doesn't have a hole for the air temp. sensor, so it's just hanging there in the engine bay and my friends are telling that my gas mileage is bad because the air temp sensor isn't in the intake.

thanks!

-Brian

 

i have a ghetto shortram, its like the GAB but the whole front of the airbox is cut off, I just left my sensor hanging in my engine bay, everything works fine.

 

hmmm the frankencar intake makes you reuse the stock piece that holds the sensor look at a pic of a frankencar and drill yourself a hole for it

 

Just drill a hole for it and use the little rubber piece thats in the stock intake scoop.

 

I kept my factory air scoop with the sensor intact.

 

1. factory air scoop
2. zip tie to your battery holder

It should have no effect on your gas mileage.

 

Does anyone know if it's even necessary to have the sensor plugged in? Then you can just tie up the plug and be done with it.

 

I think the sensor did effect my car's performance, i had it zip tied to the battery for about a month after just having it in the scoop and i finally decided on putting it in the intake to see if it made a difference, personally i think it did have a positive effect on the car's performance and its milage. It takes not even 10 minutes if you have a dremel.

Its not gonna do any harm to car if you put it in there. I did notice that my car did idle lower with the temp sensor in the intake.

 

can you explain why it won't effect the mileage?

 

Interesting findings. Currently I have mine "normally" mounted to the stock air scoop. The scoop empties into nothing, then I have my separate Berk intake. Do you feel that if I were to mount the sensor in the intake it would be beneficial? I would have to drill into the MAF assembly prior to the MAF sensor so that it would be sensing non-metered air.

 

I think it would be beneficial and i think the engine bay looks allot better with that scoop out.

My setup is like this [TB]-[Stock Mid]-[MAF]-[Temp Sens.]-[Filter]

PS: i dont have a berk intake... i made my own intake out of some cheap intake stuff you buy at pep boys that my friend had on his civic and i took it n modded it so that it works for my maxima.

 

I'm saying that it shouldn't, not that it won't.

I have the Blitz R-VIT which takes readings from the ECU directly. With the sensor in the air scoop and with it dangling, the air intake temperature is the same during a highway run. This test occured on the same day within a few minutes between each test.

At 30+ mph, the variance between the outside air temperature and under hood temp is only 7-10 F. Your intake temp is going to read relatively the same as long as the sensor is sitting under your hood.

 

What about during idle??? my car's idle dropped when i put the sensor in the intake rather than in the scoop or sitting in the engine bay... would this have to do w/ the fact that the air that is being sucked in the tb is moving the air over the sensor???

 

Actually, now that you mention it, I have noticed that my idle is very randomly slightly rougher than before I put the intake on.

 

Don't drill into the MAF!!!!!!! You won't enjoy the outcome.

 

I taped the damn sensor to the front of my battery...

I hated the look of the scoop so I dumped it!

 

If you leave the intake temp sensor in the OEM air scoop, its not connected in anyway to the intake system of the car if you are using an aftermarket intake.

Therefore there should be no difference in the car idle regardless of where the sensor sits.

 

I realized that logic with my own rough idle problem.

 

I have a Berk, and just drilled a hole in the MAF tube, dead center (top to bottom), and as far forward (toward the air intake side) as possible, and re-used the rubber thing from the orginal air intake.

If you do it appropriately the tip of the temp sensor (once inserted) will reside near the MAF sensor, but will be just out of the way for it to properly receive airflow. Just make sure you don't insert the temp sensor to where the tip is in front of the MAF opening.

If you don't like it or want go back to stock, a new MAF is only $80.

 

Holy old thread Batman!

 

you search old threads for info...not to bump them with info thats already been provided.

rule of thumb for posting in an old thread - will i be adding anything to this thread?

worst part, you quoted the OP who asked the question 06-14-2006 and obviously got the answer that same day.

but since this place has become as unruly as the wild west, i guess it doesnt matter.