Air flow meter

[Chris Waltham]

At 08:28 20/08/2001, you wrote:
>At 07:38 PM 8/19/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> >        after each change, and  the thing that gave the greatest
> >performance boost (according to the dyno  sheets) was the air flow meter!
> > Now if the air flow meter just measures air flow,  how is it so?
>
>         (Finally, a question I can answer!) LS1 sounds right - that's a new
>aluminum Chevy V8 used in the Commodore, Camaro, and Corvette.  Anyway, the
>air flow meter on many cars can be something of a restriction to incoming
>air.  Changing it to a less restrictive type can improve volumetric
>efficiency, which is good for more power.  This has become a fairly popular
>mod on Chevy engines and some 5.0 Mustangs.

Don't the Corvette's use something like the LS3 or the LT3? I thought they
had a touch less power output (270-odd or 280-odd kW), but were a lot better,
shall we say, "engineered"?


Chris

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