MAF Sensor swaps

[Legacy777]

Found this article on autospeed.
http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1874/art ... larArticle

I haven't read the whole thing, but I'm probably going to go ahead and just get a subscription, because I'll probably be wanting to paruse some of their articles in the next few months.

[tris91ricer]

I like this article:
http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_0059/art ... larArticle
We need to figure out something like that.. I'd do it.

[skid542]

Yeah that looks like a good article. Next year I take a lab course where we do hot wire anemometry implimentation and design. Once I get through that I would think I'd know enough to design us one or at least spec one out that would work.

Something like that would be easy to do, the anti-theft that is. It would just be a matter of having to go up under the dash and find your ignition wires and mount things. Run the wires to the swith in a long and windy path and put your relay with the rest. Wouldn't be hard to do but a little tricky to figure out. I plan on installing my own anti-theft system on my car when I start putting major money into it. Hehe, my brother's old Jetta, if you left the fuel pump relay in it would just keep running the pump even with the car off, so he would just pull it out and put it under the seat when he got out. Not that anybody would steal it in the first place.

[legacycontinues]

Has anyone ever just taken the MAF off (still wired in) and stuck it to the side? What about extending the wires and placing the MAF someplace dry but ventilated?

Would this do more harm then good?

[Project_Legacy]

yea ive done that before. i think i remember that the motor just dies out. no air flow over the maf sensor or something like that. i think i plugged it in while the motor was running too. cant remember if i tried starting it up like that or not. but id imagine that it wouldnt start up.

[scottzg]

I'm 99% sure it wouldnt work, but could you hook 2 sensors up in parallel and wire them in parallel? You'd have a range to 10 volts, and airspeed would be half on both sides.