MAP vs MAF, again

Bruce Plecan nacelp at bright.net
Tue Apr 21 02:06:30 GMT 1998


In the not to distant past there was a post about how when an
individual changed from MAP to MAF in a engine with a larger
than stock cam how the grams per second changed.  As I recall
the idle grams/second went from like 20 to 6, and the WOT went
from 255 to like 150.  I'm just curious if this was most probably from the
lack of dampening of the MAP sensor.  The MAF has to change
current loading (?), or some better engineering term to register
a change, where in the MAP all it is a diaphram moving.  My point is
that in this case the MAP was actually more accurate, and the
problem is actually how the ecm sees the more violent intake tract
pulses.  In one series of experiments I did I tried mounting the MAP
on the engine, and then with various lines, starting with min lenght
ID, and then large ID, and long line.  What has always seemed to
work best is a min lenght/ID hose from the manifold to the MAP
sensor.
  Any other experiences, comments
Cheers
Bruce    In the spirit of good will when you see a pal at work
              having a bad day, please feel free to offer him/her
              the use of your Cone Shaped Hat...




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