Induction kits

#**101**

Sales! wrote:

Quote:

If the filter oil was coming off in significant quantity, this would
mean the MAF got dirtier quicker, no error there, and it would be
annoying if it was really often, has anyone found this to be the case?

It's not the case.
You only get a heap of oil coming off the filter, if you have too much on it

#**102**

Quote:

in
all honesty, how many people use full throttle that often?

Everyday!!

#**103**

Apparently on date Mon, 10 May 2004 18:13:26 +0100, Peter Hill
<peter.usenet1 (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> said:

Quote:

On Mon, 10 May 2004 01:10:14 +0100, Sales!
Questions (AT) bargain-pricings (DOT) com> wrote:

Apparently on date Sun, 9 May 2004 08:42:48 +0100, Pete Smith
pete_news (AT) lethe (DOT) org.uk> said:

So far, whatever detritus has stuck to the MAF wires has come off with a squirt
of injector cleaning spray - I guess this is tantamount to brushing in a petrol
bath, and so I still think this means the MAF will not be damaged by oil
contamination by the filter.

Unless someone can propose a mechanism where it can be damaged?

Cleaning is not standard service procedure, therefore if contaminated
it is damaged and is replaced.

That's amazing, when they cost a hundred quid, cleaning can take 30 seconds and
seems to be a completely effective restoration.

Quote:

Had a run in with a 'professional mechanic' earlier this year, he was
proud that he had done a good job fixing many cars by replacing the
MAF and fitting a genuine air filter to prevent lint contamination.
He had never attempted to clean one, the thought that he could do so
and save his customers money had never entered his head. Even after
it had been suggested he held fast to the fact that cleaning the MAF
was not in the makers service book.

Ouch! Why would anyone go to a garage where that was going to happen?

"New windscreen, sir, the old one had dead insects on it. And we've replaced
the back seat, it had an old coffee stain."

Quote:

I doubt he would parcel up the electronic contents of his scrap bin
and send it me for re-con.

It's the sort of thing that you'd want, though eh? Quick clean of the wires,
test the readings and sell them on ebay at half the retail price, onto a winner
there and no mistake.

#**104**

looks like I have successfully started a massive thread

"Mike" <mike-w (AT) iname (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Some alternative inlet arrangements , including alternative air cleaners
and
induction kits , as well as producing increased noise levels and potential
icing problems when cold , can produce significant power loss.
Cars that use by-pass type MAF sensors (e.g. many Fords , Nissans Jaguars
etc.) , reley on the air-flow through them being reasonably laminar to
meter
correctly , indeed the engine's 'calibration' will take account of this.
We
have measured , for example on a Mondeo 2 Litre , a drop of 8 BHP in the
mid
range when a certain well known (and highly hyped up) make of air filter
was
fitted in place of the paper original.
Mike

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