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Old Jun 18, 2013 | 02:27 PM
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I am waiting for my cam in the mail and in the process of gathering everything I need for the swap. My questions is should I change the SLP MAF that was on the car when I bought it before I get the car tuned or just leave it? I believe if I leave it and the MAF takes a dump one day I will have to either buy another SLP MAF or buy a stock/truck MAF and than have the car retuned.

I'm I correct? I do not want to have to over pay and get another SLP MAF if that's the case.

Any down sides to using a truck MAF with the harness that came with the SLP MAF?

Any suggestions would be great.

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Old Jun 18, 2013 | 03:28 PM
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Just take the stupid resistor off the SLP maf (SLP added this, its not on truck maf or C5Z maf), you will need a soldering iron to do so, or clip it off. The tuner can use a C5Z MAF table if car is or truck MAF table after....
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Old Jun 18, 2013 | 04:30 PM
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go to gm and buy a new maf, it was 200 bucks for one , the slp is ****, i went through the cutting and all that and was okay for a while . Just go and buy a new one is my advice from personal exp.
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Old Jun 18, 2013 | 04:44 PM
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I had no trouble from removing the resistor and using
the standard truck table, but eventually started doing
experiments on the SLP piece and went to a plain old
truck MAF off eBay and descreened it. Been fine for,
I dunno, 5-8 years on the car. After the H/C/I the
Z06 table was a bit more accurate.
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Old Jun 18, 2013 | 06:11 PM
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Thanks for the reply guys. If I go with the truck MAF can I just use the slp harness?
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Old Jun 19, 2013 | 05:51 PM
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I just switched from SLP MAF to an GM/truck MAF, the harness from the SLP plugged right in and seems to run fine. I'll be getting the tune touched up anyways.
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