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Old Feb 26, 2010 | 01:30 PM
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69LT1. I appreciate your more recent post.

The Pro-M racing (entity that calibrates Mass-flo's sensors) 85mm MAF calibrated for 30 lb/hr injectors is NOT pegging out in my application, it max's out at ~740 SCFM.

My next statement is important. Given my set-up with the 85mm MAF was not pegging out, how you ask do i see a gain when i increase the size of the orifice?

Simple. The sensor itself is the constriction and doesn't allow the flow to be as high as it would be without it. Neither case am i flowing more than 740 cfm.

This explains the increase from 535 to 573 SCFM in the head to head comparison.

Conventional knowledge says 38 SCFM * .69 = 26, is worth 26 HP. But at 5500 RPM the data shows 45 SCFM diff, leading to 31 HP.

"2 MPH in the 1/4 not a very good measure. Was the DA exactly the same? Was the 60 ft the same? Tire spin will increase the MPH." Conventional knowledge says 10HP / Mph in the range of MPH i'm in and the weight of my car (it's not linear i know so don't extrapolate). 1/4 mi mph is good estimator of HP/weight with street tires. However there, i had an automatic with the carb and turned 109, and went to a manual along with the EFI and still ran slower MPH. so that 2 mph diff is really like 3-4 mph (30-40 hp). It's not my shifting ability either with manual tranny, before i had the automatic in there, the engine had less hp and I turned 108 with the borg warner T10 4 speed.
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Old Feb 28, 2010 | 12:59 AM
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On this maf it has the built in iat sensor can I just take the 2 wires for that out of the 5 prong clip and use my oem iat sensor that goes in the air lid on the fbody?
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Old Feb 28, 2010 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by 68Firebird428wEFI
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about.

WHAT DOES NITROUS DO? IT ALLOWS YOU TO BURN MORE FUEL.
Was I the only one who thought this was funny? Or did I mis a post or some information somewhere?

Were talking about airflow and nitrous artificially/chemically adds more oxygen without needing more airflow.

How do yo think nitrous allows you to burn more fuel??

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Old Feb 28, 2010 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by SweetS10V8
Was I the only one who thought this was funny? Or did I mis a post or some information somewhere?

Were talking about airflow and nitrous artificially/chemically adds more oxygen without needing more airflow.

How do yo think nitrous allows you to burn more fuel??
No you didn't miss anything. My point was, whether its increased airflow or nitrous, anything that allows you to burn more fuel will increase your horsepower.

It was in response to 69LT1's comment:
"...it only needs what it needs if its a non-FI engine"

It was an example to shed light on the issue at hand.
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 12:39 PM
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I gained 3whp going from the 85mm maf to the lpe 100.

The real problem i have now is that this maf reads an IAT of 13F higher than usual!
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 12:56 PM
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How about your engine specs?
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by The highlander
I gained 3whp going from the 85mm maf to the lpe 100.

The real problem i have now is that this maf reads an IAT of 13F higher than usual!
What size is your motor?
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by The highlander
The real problem i have now is that this maf reads an IAT of 13F higher than usual!
I ran into this exact same problem - mine was reading ~10* over ambient...not sure why, but I use a separate IAT sensor since I don't trust the one in this MAF sensor.
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 03:41 PM
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Mine is off by 20* F
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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 01:55 PM
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I just went out and did a quick experiment.....

Garage thermometer - 95*F
85mm Truck MAF - 95*F
LS3/LS7 Card MAF - 108*F
Lingenfelter 10mm MAF 108*F

Interesting......are they off or do they use a different calculation for the temp??

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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by SweetS10V8
I just went out and did a quick experiment.....

Garage thermometer - 95*F
85mm Truck MAF - 95*F
LS3/LS7 Card MAF - 108*F
Lingenfelter 10mm MAF 108*F

Interesting......are they off or do they use a different calculation for the temp??
Yes differnet calibration. On my LS3 Vette they have a table to recalibrate the IAT Sensor. You can use a breakout harness and keep your stock sensor.

I used a breakout harness on the the vette and relocated the IAT and noticed about a 10-13deg drop in temps as well.

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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 04:51 PM
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"Breakout harness"? Never heard of it, link? LPE has a "plug and play" harness but it doesnt say anything about correcting the IAT.

Im assuming breakout stands for "Doesnt use MAF IAT, and you have to add your own sepreate one"??
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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 05:30 PM
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I bought the one for my 09 vette from caspers. Basically it plugs into the Maf connector and seperates the MAF signal and the IAT signal. Three wires go to the card maf and two wires go to a standard IAT connector. Plug and Play.

A number of companies make them.

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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by RPOWU8
Plug and Play.
Well kinda sorta.... Buy new IAT sensor, install IAT sensor somewhere in intake tract, then plug and play with the breakout harness. Well at least in my case....
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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 08:41 PM
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I just tweaked my intake air temp spark table so I don't get timing pulled for no reason.

HP Tuners said they are looking into giving us the table for the Gen III OS's but I am not holding my breath
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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 69LT1Bird
I just tweaked my intake air temp spark table so I don't get timing pulled for no reason.

HP Tuners said they are looking into giving us the table for the Gen III OS's but I am not holding my breath
I can see how you can do that with a log, but what else does the IAT sensor affect as a part of the calculation in other fueling tables?
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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SweetS10V8
Well kinda sorta.... Buy new IAT sensor, install IAT sensor somewhere in intake tract, then plug and play with the breakout harness. Well at least in my case....
True,

I had to buy an extention harness and an IAT sensor for the vette.

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Old Aug 1, 2010 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by SweetS10V8
I can see how you can do that with a log, but what else does the IAT sensor affect as a part of the calculation in other fueling tables?
A point worth making... MAF calibrations are much more tolerant of the heat soak that the IAT sensor generally suffers from vs. SD. When the IAT heat soaks in a SD car, it makes the car lean on startup and until the sensor sheds the heat. This can make for rough hot starts and rough running until closed loop takes over and then the sensor cools. WOT is less affected than low air velocity due to the OEM bias table. Large cam cars that are SD (and high DCR setups it seems) are less tolerant of the lean hot starts. If they are really bad, relocating the IAT into the bumper where it sees outside air temps at all time will make a huge improvement. There are numbers/science tuners that disagree, but modeling heat soak in a sensor in the existing confines is nearly impossible, and the results don't lie. Eliminating heat soak and measuring outside temps results in much more stable and accurate fueling in those cases. The same big car would typically care less about the heat soak if it were running a MAF.
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