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Old Mar 28, 2003 | 11:50 PM
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Default Car is too lean. What to do?

I just had my car dyno'd and they said I am too lean. I have the typical intake mods with a ported and descreened stock MAF sensor. Is there a way I could richen the mix without too much $ or removing the moded MAF?
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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 02:19 AM
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Dyno tune or MAFT. MAFT you can probably get for 80 bucks in the classified forum. I think i saw a few in there for sale achually. Just plugs in to the MAF and a few turns of the ***** and your good to go.
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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 11:35 AM
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I was thinking that would help, but I thought all they did was lean out the mix.
Thanks for the info.
Any other opinions?
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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 01:21 PM
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Default Re: Car is too lean. What to do?

You can richen or lean out the mixture with a MAFT <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 01:36 PM
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Sounds like a MAFT is the way to go, but I would like more info. on them before I get one. Pros? cons? etc...
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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 12:09 AM
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flip the direction of the maf sensor--have the arrow on the sensor point to the air filter not the windshield. works for me
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