e-subliminal-2

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Well, I think it's safe to stay the stock mafs are only meant for the stock airboxes. I switched intakes and blew mine. Randomly lost power over 4k till I almost got hit by a 18 wheeler because it randomly Died on a turn and wouldn't go past 2.4k.... This ONLY happened right when I changed it. Budy of mine installed headers, started his car and his maf blew asap. Posts on the last 2-3 pages are about blown mafs. Another budy of mine is running a 500+hp trans am with a stock maf running fine... Here are my questions......

I'm getting a Injen cai tonight, will ecu reset hopefully help my chances of not hurting my new maf?

I'm assuming you can upgrade your maf to a stronger one, can anyone point me in the right direction? I believe there was a thread about someone asking if it was stupid to do the ecu reset or idle relearn once installing a new intake, I thought it was stupid at the time, but seeing how sensative our stock mafs are... Can't help but worry....

Deckdout2

iTrader: (151)

Take the Injen and sell it. It won't do you a bit of good. Been there done that, waste of money. Ported Stock Airbox should give you the minimal gain you're looking for and sounds alright.

e-subliminal-2

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I'm actually getting it for a pretty good deal, was thinking about that^

Deckdout2

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Do it, it'll be worth your time and headache.

e-subliminal-2

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If i'm not mistaken though reviews say it helps out your low end while eats up your high end, anyone to back that up?

MoncefA33

iTrader: (6)

This is theoretically correct.

e-subliminal-2

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Well either way i'm getting it for a good price, and was curious to try it and see if I notice a difference. I had a apexi, blew the maf. Back to stock now un gabbed, and debating on if it's safe to risk another maf on a cai that may or may not add similar if not the same hp as the gab w.o eating up my high end...

mist max2000

iTrader: (16)

i have some extra airbox filter holders for sale if your interested and dont want to hack yours up.. thread in sig


but on a side note.. i have had a berk and apexi filter.. and now a berk R2C filter...on for about 10-15 K? and never had a problem with the maf,.. and i know the feeling of a blown one because i blew one on my 00 max..

Rochester

iTrader: (3)

Ditto. Apexi filter(s) on a Frankencar short-ram for 20K miles now.

Original MAF; (so far). Cleaned with CRC only once, just a few months ago.

Of course, now that's I've made that claim, I'm sure to get in line behind MIK3.

HotshotVQ35

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ive had a frankencar with k&n on the car from 10k to about 50K. put a apexi on somewhere in the low 50s and now im at 64K never had one problem with the maf. was the filter a k&n and over oiled?

e-subliminal-2

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It had been sprayed with k&n and I waited about over a day before I reinstalled to make sure it was clean, I suspect that was the reason mine went. However i cleaned it with maf cleaner and the over 4k power loss went away. I thought I fixed the problem, 4 hours later my car laughed at me as it almost killed me.
And sigh....
I'm just curious as to whether it's worth it or not.

e-subliminal-2

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Yeah, it's not a good feeling....