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Dec 24, 2005 | 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Imprezer

So then when people and some tuners say that intakes don't do much and cause trouble it is bs then. My take on this is that of you have a nice intake with high flow filter and sheild (cold air) it will no doubt be better than stock. However, for it to work right, you must recalibrate the MAF. And, since it takes more time, tuners opt to NOT to do it.

Am I correct, Mike?

Well I can't speak for all tuners and their independant findings but from my own I would agree that there are gains to be had with intakes such as you mentioned but for the most part the gains on stock or stockish turbo's don't warrant the time investment it takes to correctly rescale the MAF tables.

On a larger turbo with a larger inlet that the owner still wishes to use a MAF based sysem I would say it's worth the time.

Mike