mass air flow systems and superchips
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Bill , check over in the mods posting. Lots of good info.
Hello Bill,
As Bullittman said there is a lot of info in the mods section, but I have been looking at air flow and superchips myself. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the gains from just a new MAF sensor and chip are minimal. Now people who have also added headers seem to get about 25HP more at the rear wheel but from what I see you need to do all three (80mm MAF, headers and chip tune). If somebody wants to correct me I'd love to hear more. A lot of people use a dense charger to improve airflow to the MAF. This seems to give some gain but it is hard to quantify. Bur the price is low.
As Bullittman said there is a lot of info in the mods section, but I have been looking at air flow and superchips myself. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the gains from just a new MAF sensor and chip are minimal. Now people who have also added headers seem to get about 25HP more at the rear wheel but from what I see you need to do all three (80mm MAF, headers and chip tune). If somebody wants to correct me I'd love to hear more. A lot of people use a dense charger to improve airflow to the MAF. This seems to give some gain but it is hard to quantify. Bur the price is low.
I installed a chip from Superchips. It took that "weak-spot" away from the car. You know, the dead area below 2,000 rpm. It gives a minimal hp increase, but it does increase torque about 10lb to 12lb.(they say) The difference IS noticable. Now everytime you come down to 2,000 rpm, you do not have to down-shift. The install took about 20 to 30 minutes. The hardest part of the job was removing the coating on the circuit board so the new chip makes contact.
It's worth the money.
Bob
It's worth the money.
Bob
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a tried and proven mod is the steeda t/a. Search the archives and you will see many happy customers. You will not need the chip the T/A.
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My advice (if possible) is skip the superchip. :smile:
After you have changed the the exhaust (LT's required), opened up the intake track (cold air or something). Then find a tuner that has done many 99+ mustangs, get them to burn a custom chip. You will see much greater gains then the STD superchip. The super chip with the vortec v2-sq on my friends 99gtmaid 342/342 rwhtq, custom chip 413.5/379.2 But that was 8lb of boost.
After you have changed the the exhaust (LT's required), opened up the intake track (cold air or something). Then find a tuner that has done many 99+ mustangs, get them to burn a custom chip. You will see much greater gains then the STD superchip. The super chip with the vortec v2-sq on my friends 99gtmaid 342/342 rwhtq, custom chip 413.5/379.2 But that was 8lb of boost.
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