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My brother stumbled across people saying that on the Vulcan 3.0 engines the biggest airflow restriction is the design of the MAF sensor metal tunnel and that you can modify it to free up a small amount of power.
The following page is a detailed how-to on what I'm talking about:
http://rogueperformance.com/ModifiedMAF.html
We were curious, so we tried it on his 97 3.0 and on my 96 2.3, both of which seem to share the same MAF sensor tunnel piece.
For anyone curious about it, it's a fun little project you can do in an hour or two with a dremel and some different tips, and it DOES seem to work.
We did his truck first, and we didn't notice any major difference of course, but it did seem to struggle less below 2000 rpm. Just seemed a tiny bit more "peppy" down there.
On my 2.3, it actually seemed to make a more noticeable difference, all other things being equal and unchanged, the truck seems much peppier in low rpms than before. I'm not claiming that the difference is huge by any means, but the difference was noticeable. My truck actually idles lower now as well. It has always idled well, and hung right around 1000-1100 rpms, but now it looks to be about 900 consistently. Found that interesting.
Just thought I'd share this little bit to anyone who might be interested. Pics of our finished result.
The following page is a detailed how-to on what I'm talking about:
http://rogueperformance.com/ModifiedMAF.html
We were curious, so we tried it on his 97 3.0 and on my 96 2.3, both of which seem to share the same MAF sensor tunnel piece.
For anyone curious about it, it's a fun little project you can do in an hour or two with a dremel and some different tips, and it DOES seem to work.
We did his truck first, and we didn't notice any major difference of course, but it did seem to struggle less below 2000 rpm. Just seemed a tiny bit more "peppy" down there.
On my 2.3, it actually seemed to make a more noticeable difference, all other things being equal and unchanged, the truck seems much peppier in low rpms than before. I'm not claiming that the difference is huge by any means, but the difference was noticeable. My truck actually idles lower now as well. It has always idled well, and hung right around 1000-1100 rpms, but now it looks to be about 900 consistently. Found that interesting.
Just thought I'd share this little bit to anyone who might be interested. Pics of our finished result.
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