Has ANYONE successfully ran the Z32 MAF on the non-charged side in a 4th Gen yet?

If so - what did you do, and how did you do it?

IanS

 

I am about to give up on this MAF thing altogether. If your interested in selling your A32 PROM let me know. Otherwise I am ordering a new one from JWT by the end of the week.

Like I said my car did run, but with some driveability issues that I am not willing to deal with. I am resigned to this thing not working, and StephenMax having a freak of some nature. Maybe it is his larger intake tubing. Either way, I am ready to give up on this stupid MAF.

 

So noone has tried building new piping more like 5th Gen piping that gives 18"+ space between the MAF and inlet on the SC?

Isn't this what JWT says you have to do?
How does JWT know this anyway? have they tried it?

Have you tried any variation of that?

 

Oh - and I can't sell my A32 EEPROM until I figure this out - because then my car won't run.

 

Well first off JWT never told me I had to be x" away from the blower... The first I heard about that was here on this board. I refuse to cut up the Stillen piping again. I did it once, and went through hell to get new pipes. I will not deal with it again. 5th Gen type piping would be nice and all, but, too much work. Ian I suspect we are at different places as to where we want to go with the cars, and what we want the cars to be.

I want my car to be reliable and fast, but not the fastest maxima ever. To me, the aggravation of the potential 50 hp by switching MAF's and creating all this re-circ junk and crap is just not worth it, Re-doing all the piping? Not I. I didn't even want to do the re-circ in the first place when the MAF was going to be mounted in the fenderwell, much less now with all this extra work. Basically I am at a point where I want to drive this car every single day and enjoy it. Ultimate levels of horsepower are not where I am most concerned right now. I think I am going to go back to the A32 MAF and the corresponding pulley size (3.25?)

I posted yesterday offering a trade for anyone with an A32 MAF tune from JWT. Unless something happens between now and the weekend and this car starts running like a champ with the MAF on the Pressurized side, I am going back to the A32 MAF and getting the new tune from JWT or potentially from a trade here on the ORG.

 

I hear ya... I will send you my non charged side piping.. it'll run... just will have some driveability bugs. Hell I'll even send you MY Z MAF and Connector so you will have a spare.

 

I want to make it run with no drivability problems whatsoever.

My problem is that I am at the point where I HAVE to have the Z32 MAF to run safely. Right now I am forced to never go above 6k RPM because I lean out too much because the A32 MAF can't handle the airflow.

My plan was that once I get this fixed, I'm done. No more hp upgrades. As a matter of fact, my HP will probably drop some when I put a resonator in and a baffled muffler since the 3" straight exhaust is WAY too loud.

I'm having MaxiMan in Oregon work with a mandrel shop to build me new piping using his SC as the template. That means I won't need to cut up my current piping at all and since he knows the guy, the cost will be significantly low (about $150-$200)

IanS

 

Ben @ JWT told me about the at least 18 inch rule.

I posted this.

Is it true that SR20DET ppl run the z32 MAF all the time on the charged side with no problems??

I dunno what I am gonna do yet. I think I will try it on the charged side for now, I have a spare z32 maf though.

 

Ian I hear you, I want to do the same, and if you manage to pull it off with the new piping, then awesome, I may even consider it then, and probably end up paying JWT to go back to my old tune but for right now, I need this car to run right. Looks like going back to the A32 MAF is the way to go.

 

I am getting confused of what problems everyone is having, so just to clear it up.........

Delio: your car has drivabilty problems running the z32maf on the charged side?
is your setup identical to Stephens?

 

I have had problems both ways.... right now I won't put any more effort into this than I have for the last 3 weeks. It works like Stephen's does, or I go back to the Maxima MAF.