I need someone to explain why some people do this? Does the car run better? Why don't they have it come this way on the install? I am willing to try anything if it helps.

 

Here are my reason why I moved mine to the pressure side.

I was getting some surging at idle and a few folks here said it was normal and if I moved the maf to the pressure side, it would help with the surging. I moved it and my surging at idle was gone.

The other reason I wanted to move it is because when the MAF is located at the inlet location (under the car) its more prone to the elements and can get wet. Back when I had my maf under the car on the inlet side, It got wet a few times and twice in the rain, it threw a maf code while running funky. Since I moved it to the pressure side, it obviously does not get wet anymore and I never got the codes again in the rain.

Most folks normally move it to the pressure side so they can have a complete hard intake set up made that wont collapse and a bigger air filter to pick up a little more boost.


Hope that helps,
Claude

 

Yep, I was seeing idle rpms go from 500-1500 on a good day before I moved the MAF. I was also starting to suck the stock ATI filter shut as well.

MAF is moved and the piping has been changed....all is good for now

 

i would assume another benefit would be the ability to still drive the car if boost blows the intake tubing apart

 

yeah that too, completely forgot about that because I did blow a intercooler pipe off the car on the way home the other night, drove just fine...just made a little more noise

 

Thanx for the info. Are there any performance gains by doing this?

 

I doubt it since most cars that are blow thru....or at least mine is maxed out around 4000rpms at that point all of the fuel tables are manualy entered into the program (unless there is some other way of doing it I don't know about) so if that was the case the only performance gains you would see would be in the lower rpm range. The biggest gain as far as I'm conserned is just simple driveablity and that alone was worth moving it.

 

thanx for the info guys

 

I believe another thing this lets you do is vent to atmoshpere with a blow off valve.