08 Silverado MAF upgrade??
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08 Silverado MAF upgrade?? Was cleaning my Air filter on my 08 silverado today at
a buddies and he noticed my MAF is quite abit different than his 2011 Silverado, mine has the honeycomb style Before the MAF and is one big bulky unit and his is not, basically open tube and the MAF itself is removeable . He made a valid point that the honeycomb is restricting a lot of air flow. My question is, has anyone actually connected the newer style MAF into the older (08 lower) style harness? The connector is the same size and appears to have the same amount of pins, the only difference is the clip that snaps them together, thinking one could trim them off and it would slip right on. But will it read The same?? They make adapter kits to fab your own piping to fit the Newer style MAF in, which wouldn't be a problem, just want to know if it'd even work with the 08 style harness. I'd like to get that extra air flow.. I have a K&N cold air if that matters at all.
a buddies and he noticed my MAF is quite abit different than his 2011 Silverado, mine has the honeycomb style Before the MAF and is one big bulky unit and his is not, basically open tube and the MAF itself is removeable . He made a valid point that the honeycomb is restricting a lot of air flow. My question is, has anyone actually connected the newer style MAF into the older (08 lower) style harness? The connector is the same size and appears to have the same amount of pins, the only difference is the clip that snaps them together, thinking one could trim them off and it would slip right on. But will it read The same?? They make adapter kits to fab your own piping to fit the Newer style MAF in, which wouldn't be a problem, just want to know if it'd even work with the 08 style harness. I'd like to get that extra air flow.. I have a K&N cold air if that matters at all.
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I looked into it alittle deeper after making this post and found out that it doesn't really make much of a difference, like you're saying. It just looks decieving and seemed like a good idea to look into seeing if there was a way to open it up or increase The flow. My truck only has a mild cam, and it's no hot rod by any means so I'm not too worried lol. Thanks for the reply!
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do NOT change the MAF sensor... bad bad bad.. Aftermarket/non-stock MAF sensors that were not made for your vehicle, do not report true, correct information to the pcm... aftermarket MAF sensor calibrations fool the pcm into thinking the engine is running leaner than it really is, so when trying to tune it and adjust the fueling correctly, it will never really be right/correct, because that aftermarket MAF sensor is not reporting true/accurate airflow info to begin with... and they usually cause idle and driveability issues... Plus, the stock GM MAF sensor is good for 600+ hp anyway, so there is no reason to change it...
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