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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 10:42 AM
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Has anyone tried these yet or are we still recommending the stocker. Do you think they really calibrate them correctly or is this just a marketing hype? Any results or gains would be awesome.
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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 11:44 AM
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Pretty sure they were the supplier for Granatelli. Keeping the MAF stock up to around 450hp is the general consensus. Most aftermarket MAFs just cause problems.
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According to a Granatelli marketing chart I saw
the Pro-M is richer than stock and the Granatelli
"just a little" leaner. Likely that you could adjust
the Pro-M yourself, then, but probably not what
you were looking for.

I'd say until you find a supplier who will give you a
guaranteed frequency/flow data set that you can
tune to, or guarantee within 1-2% of stock cal across
the entire band, it's just more trouble than it's worth.

Unless you like that kind of thing and want to make a
hobby of it.
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Old Mar 7, 2004 | 12:24 AM
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If if change your MAF, the Z06 MAF would be the best bet, since it's factory calibrated to a very close version of your engine, and cost <$150 with adapter.
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Old Mar 7, 2004 | 01:11 PM
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No, Z06 cal is almost identical to truck MAF cal
(differences are almost certainly due to screen
and intake tract). On an F-body these MAFs
will put you 15-25% rich and this is not good.
The plus is that you can modify them to be
pretty good fits to the F-body, cheap. But out-
of-the-box, not right. The engine is structurally
the same on a 'Vette but its PCM is programmed
for the proper MAF freq/flow characteristic.

If you were gonna get tuned anyway, you could
just use the Z06 or truck tables and end up in
good shape.
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Old Mar 14, 2004 | 04:20 AM
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ANSWER: Buy an Lt1 stroke it slap on some slicks and nitrous and call it a day.
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Old Mar 14, 2004 | 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Lt1BadBoy
ANSWER: Buy an Lt1 stroke it slap on some slicks and nitrous and call it a day.



if the stock MAF is good for people running 10's and 11's then its good enough for me
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Old Mar 14, 2004 | 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Lt1BadBoy
ANSWER: Buy an Lt1 stroke it slap on some slicks and nitrous and call it a day.
Another wannabe troll
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Ha, sounded too good to be true. Thanks guys. You're right about the Z06 mafs for us. I bought a PACE one with a 85mm TSP lid to match and I threw an SES! I reset the computer and sure throttle response was better, but it didn't pull like the stocker. I have to sell it now. Ha.
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Originally Posted by Dear John
Ha, sounded too good to be true. Thanks guys. You're right about the Z06 mafs for us. I bought a PACE one with a 85mm TSP lid to match and I threw an SES! I reset the computer and sure throttle response was better, but it didn't pull like the stocker. I have to sell it now. Ha.
Before you sell it have a look at this:

http://community.webshots.com/album/95429402bLraTX

If you have any kind of logging / real time display tool you
can tune it in yourself, if you want.
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I picked up 5-10 RWHP and about 7-10 RWTQ all throughout the entire RPM band with my Granatelli MAF. I used an MAF-T to get it to the proper mixture.

Hope that helps.
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