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Installed my 76mm C&L tonight. Thought it would solve my problem. Thought my old mass air was calibrated for 19lbs and I am using 24lb injectors. So I got a new 24lb MAF from C&L. Engine sounds really different. When I get on it now, totally boggs. Timing is 12 degrees and fuel pressure 42 at idle. I need to borrow a timing light and play with my fuel regulator too. I did all this because when I dynoed my air fuel was 20 to 1. Someone said get a new MAF instead of a chip. Now my car runs worse. Can someone guide me to tune my car. Can someone lend me a timing light? Thanks.....
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Do you have the 24 lbs sample tube in that C&L? Know of a buddy with a PRO-M 24lbs MAF you can try out?
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Yeah it is 24lb MAF with tube and all!!
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assuming the electronics you transfered from your old MAF is good...... what else is your car doing 'wrong' besides boggging?
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Not accerlating normally. Making wierd noises like it is sucking a golf ball through a hose. Idling like crap. I still think it is better though. I think I need to advance the timing and adjust fuel pressure. I still don't know if the MAF I took out was a 19 or 24. Doesn't say anything on the MAF. Why was my Air fuel so high. Dyno guy said I am not getting enough gas and curve was all over the place.
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your fuel pressure sounds 'close enough'.... I'd try electronics from a known working MAF, or borrow a pro-m 24 lbs MAF.
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I have another MAF with a brand new sensor I can swap out. I have all kinds of parts. Just can't get them to work right. The sensor is from a FM 30lb MAF. Will that sensor work???
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Originally posted by greenfuelsafe:
I have another MAF with a brand new sensor I can swap out. I have all kinds of parts. Just can't get them to work right. The sensor is from a FM 30lb MAF. Will that sensor work???


A ford 30 lbs MAF? Where did you get this from? A Thunderbird super coupe? C&L's "expect" '88-93 5.OL MAF electronics..... but the cobra MAF is 'close enough' to work in most cases.... and the cobra MAF is what the super coupe MAF is based on.

[ February 15, 2002: Message edited by: st5150 ]


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