maf translator help
01-25-2006, 03:06 PM
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maf translator help Ijust did a bunch of mods to my car....226 cam...intake...tb...lt's...and i really need to tune my car but dont have the money to fork out for a dyno tune right now......how accurate can the car be tuned with one of these....is it better than a mail in tune? i just want sometime in the mean time till i dyno tune it
01-25-2006, 03:15 PM
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IMO, you'd be much better off with a mail order tune that attempting to use a MAF translator. With a mail order tune, at least you'd be in the ballpark with your idle and driveability issues that the MAF translator won't touch. Of course you're going to want a real tune to get the most out of all the money you just spent on all those mods. 
01-25-2006, 04:29 PM
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Every car is different, so it's impossible to tell what gains any mail order tune will get you. Bottom line, a dyno tune or tuning it yourself with HPTuners/EFILive etc. is going to net you the most power. A "good" mail order tune should get rid of some annoyances of running a cam on the stock tune, but it will not net you great gains in most cases. Will you gain power from a mail order tune?.....most likely, but not as much as a real tune. As far as the differences in power gains between the two, it's impossible to guess.....every car is different and responds differently to mods.
