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Having an issue trying to get a hold of a 75mm MAF for an EB-EL windsor, does anyone have any idea where i can get a hold of one?

I quoted the part number off my hot wire sensor to the local parts shop but what came in was a replacement stock unit which i believe to be 55mm. The ID of the ends of the unit was 65mm but the ID in the middle of it appeared to be about 55mm.

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Ok, so I tried rocket they had no idea.

 

Spoke to bpt Motorsport in wa they were very helpful. They'd never heard of a 75 mm MAF we come to the thinking that the body I have has come from the states (c&l maybe) and the sensor is just a stock 55mm job which is obviously far from ideal.

 

They have a 70 or 80mm option, recommend 80mm at $385 but then I need to splice in an au style connector in place of the brand new e series one we just put in.

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What about getting the current MAF housing bored out and a 75mm sleeve put into?

 

A place where I use to live did it all the time as a cheaper upgrade for eb-el over buying a new one.

 

 

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Having an issue trying to get a hold of a 75mm MAF for an EB-EL windsor, does anyone have any idea where i can get a hold of one?

I quoted the part number off my hot wire sensor to the local parts shop but what came in was a replacement stock unit which i believe to be 55mm. The ID of the ends of the unit was 65mm but the ID in the middle of it appeared to be about 55mm.

 

Seen a few EB-EL Windsor MAF at the wreckers... dunno what dia though.

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What about getting the current MAF housing bored out and a 75mm sleeve put into?

 

A place where I use to live did it all the time as a cheaper upgrade for eb-el over buying a new one.

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

The body i'm using currently is 75mm

 

Seen a few EB-EL Windsor MAF at the wreckers... dunno what dia though.

 

Yeah issue is unless they are xr8 sprint or eb-l gt then the body and hotwire sensor are 55mm items, which is the sensor i am currently using in the 75m body which is less than ideal.

 

AU are from what i have been reading are mostly 70mm.

 

I'm tossing up now between forking out $385 plus postage and the cost of an adapter plug (au style) for a brand new 80mm unit with the correct sensor, or possibly to save 4 just grabbing a 70mm AU hotwire senor from the wreckers and either an adapter plug or just cut the one of the au and rewire it to my car (not sure if the adapter is identical to the au plug or not?) and bolt it into my 75mm body. Either way i'm going to need a retune aswell.

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What about getting the current MAF housing bored out and a 75mm sleeve put into?

 

 

A place where I use to live did it all the time as a cheaper upgrade for eb-el over buying a new one.

 

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

 

 

The body i'm using currently is 75mm

 

 

 

Seen a few EB-EL Windsor MAF at the wreckers... dunno what dia though.

 

 

 

Yeah issue is unless they are xr8 sprint or eb-l gt then the body and hotwire sensor are 55mm items, which is the sensor i am currently using in the 75m body which is less than ideal.

 

AU are from what i have been reading are mostly 70mm.

 

I'm tossing up now between forking out $385 plus postage and the cost of an adapter plug (au style) for a brand new 80mm unit with the correct sensor, or possibly to save 4 just grabbing a 70mm AU hotwire senor from the wreckers and either an adapter plug or just cut the one of the au and rewire it to my car (not sure if the adapter is identical to the au plug or not?) and bolt it into my 75mm body. Either way i'm going to need a retune aswell.

 

It's a pity I don have my car stuff here, I have a complete ED SPRINT top end including the MAF.

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It's a pity I don have my car stuff here, I have a complete ED SPRINT top end including the MAF.

 

 

 

Damn! That would have been good.

 

I've had it a while, just incase I converted to efi, but there's so many aftermarket fuel systems that are easier to set up.

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Copy and paste from fordforums, clears things up a bit as it descibes the issues im having.http://www.fordforums.com/f498/maf-modification-66827/

 

Understanding the Ford MAF.

In the MAF sensor is a small tube with two sensing elements exposed to the incoming airflow. The ratio of the larger hollow body to the smaller 'sampling tube' is calculated in such a way that just the right amount of air will enter the sampling tube. The two sensors consist of very thin platinum wires wrapped around ceramic bobbins. One sensor is used to measure the temperature of the incoming air charge. The other sensor is heated to maintain 200 degrees C above the temperature sensing element. As air flows over the heated element, the element cools . Electronics in the MAF sensor vary the current to the heated element to maintain the 200 degrees C above the temperature sensing element. This change in current is directly related to the mass of air flowing over the sensing elements. The MAF electronics convert this current change into a voltage output reading which is sent to the EEC. Inside the EEC there is a transfer function that converts MAF voltage to an airflow value. The EEC can tell how much air is entering the engine at any given time. Also inside the EEC, there is a calibration parameter that refers to the size of the injectors installed in the engine at 39 PSI. Stock 5.0 were originally equipped with 19# injectors. The 5.0L Mustang Cobras came with 24# injectors. When relating MAF sensors and injector size, one of the biggest misconceptions about the MAF system is that the MAF is 'calibrated' for a given injector. This is only true with aftermarket MAF sensors like the Pro-M, C&L / Vortec and Auto Specialties air meters, not the stock Ford air meters. What Ford does, is select a MAFsensor and inform the EEC about it by calibrating the airflow Vs voltage transfer function with data obtained from a flow bench. Then they determine how much fuel the engine will require under worst case scenarios, select an injector size, and put that value into the EEC calibration. The MAF sensor and injector size are basically un-related which means a stock 5.0 Mustang's MAF sensor IS NOT calibrated for 19# injectors - the EEC is. Now that the EEC knows what air meter it has and what injectors are being used, it can correctly calculate how much to pulse the injectors to get the desired fuel flow. Of course there is a lot more to this whole situation as the EEC must also do compensations for things such as engine coolant temp, intake manifold temp, barometric pressure and the accelerator pump, because they all affect how much fuel is needed.There are various manufacturers of aftermarket MAF sensors, in various sizes, but they all work the same way. They attempt to fool the EEC. All this fooling around can be good, or it can be bad. I'm sure you've heard about someone installing larger injectors, a 're-calibrated' MAF sensor, and having driveability problems. Things like surging, poor economy, black smoke coming out of the tailpipes, and part throttle detonation or blown head gaskets from running too lean. These are caused by aftermarket MAF sensors re-calibrated for larger injectors. I'd estimate that 60% of Mustang owners who use these aftermarket MAF meters have one or more driveability problems. Aftermarket MAF sensors calibrated for stock injectors don't really have much of a problem most of the time, but can under certain situations.If you were to install 30# injectors into a 5.0 Mustang and not re-calibrate the air meter or the EEC, it would run way to rich and pump out lots of black smoke. The reason for this is because the EEC still thinks it has 19lb injectors installed, which flow much less fuel at any given pulsewidth than the 30lb injectors. So when the EEC goes through its calculations to figure out how much to pulse the injectors, way too much fuel will be injected. Here's the trick the aftermarket MAF people do (not including Kenne Bell which is calibrated in the same fashion as the stock Ford MAF is). Since the EEC looks at the MAF sensor voltage to determine airflow, what if we were to fool the EEC into thinking it had less air coming in, therefore it would calculate a smaller pulsewidth? Bingo! That's exactly what they do. There are a couple different ways to accomplish this. One way is how Pro-M and Ford Motorsport do it. They open up the electronics on the MAF sensor and modify the circuit to lower the output voltage of the MAF sensor. The shape of the voltage airflow curve remains the same (hopefully), but it is shifted down by a ratio of old injector over new injector. This means the output voltage curve of the MAF electronics is scaled by the ratio of the two injectors. In our case we had 19#'ers and switched to 30#'ers (19 / 30 = .63) which means the new curve is only 63% of the old curve. Fig 6 shows this graphically. Now when the EEC looks at the voltage, it now thinks it's getting less air, and less air means less fuel needed, so it will calculate a smaller pulsewidth which is hopefully close enough to deliver the right amount of fuel. 



Fig 6 
Another method of fooling the EEC is the way C&L/Vortec do it. By changing the ratio of the main bore of the MAF sensor to the sampling tube, you can make the MAF look like it's getting less airflow too. These MAF's use the stock MAF electronics and vary the output voltage curve mechanically. The last way I have seen to fool the EEC is the way Auto Specialties does it. Their method is similar to C&L/Vortec, but they also use a screw positioned in the sampling tube in order to fine tune the bore to sampling tube ratio. By moving the screw in and out, you change the ratio. Each of these methods looks like it should work well, in theory. There is a problem with fooling the EEC in this way and it's called Load. Remember Load is calculated by the ratio of incoming air to how much the engine can hold. Well, now the incoming air information is all wrong so the Load calculation is all wrong also. Since Load is used to determine what A/F ratio and what spark advance to run at any given RPM, you can probably guess that with a re-calibrated air meter you no longer run correct fuel and spark - and you'd be right! By looking back at fig 4, you'll see the RPM Vs Load spark table and if you notice as you go up in Load, the amount of spark advance goes down. With the 30# re-calibrated air meter installed, Load is going to be roughly 35% less than what it actually is. What you end up with is at some RPM / Load points your running more spark advance which is like bumping up the base timing and makes the car a bit quicker. At other RPM / Load points the spark is so over advanced you can get surging, detonation at part throttle or just plain slow down. Look at fig 4 with the spark table for a 93 5.0L Mustang. Go to 1500 RPM and let's say the engine is operating at a true .60 Load, but the re-calibrated air meter is tricking the EEC into thinking it's only running at .40 Load (roughly 35% lower than actual). Notice that the base spark advance is a whopping 17 degrees over advanced! That's just like setting your base distributor timing at 27 degrees!!! At Wide Open Throttle on a 93 5.0L Mustang, the over advanced situation goes away since the EEC only uses RPM to figure out spark advance, Let's say we are running 180 degrees engine coolant temp and .70% load. Normally we would want to run somewhere around a 13.04:1 A/F ratio, but since Load is goofed up we actually run near 14.64:1 which is quite a bit leaner than you'd want to be. 
The larger the injector the MAF is calibrated for, the worse everything gets since the error in the Load calculation gets bigger and bigger. Now these problems don't happen to everyone and hopefully I didn't scare anyone by writing this. But if you are experiencing derivability problems and you have a re-calibrated MAF, now you know the reason why it runs like it does. Now there is a benifit of having a MAF sensor re-calibrated and it's sort of a side effect of the process. If you run a stock air meter on an engine that can really pull a lot of air, such as those with a supercharger, you can peg the MAF sensor's electronics. Depending on what year Mustang you have, the 'peg' voltage is somewhere around 4.85 or so volts. The EEC will look at this voltage and think there is something wrong. The check engine light will pop on and depending on how your engine is set up, you could blow a head gasket or worse. What happens is the EEC will think the MAF sensor is bad and use a default air charge table to get it's airflow values based on throttle position and RPM. Normally this table is calibrated so the engine will run richer than normal which doesn't do any harm. But if your pushing lots of boost, it might not be enough fuel. Since the re-calibrated MAF sensor's voltage curve is now lower than the stock one, it takes an awful lot of airflow to peg the meter. That's the good side effect from this type of MAF re-calibration! 

Hopefully, this clears up some of the misconceptions about how the Ford MAF system works.

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Can't you just get one from the states for a 5.0 Mustang? There are aftermarket 80mm ones available. You would have to remap it with a J3 chip etc of course

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Can't you just get one from the states for a 5.0 Mustang? There are aftermarket 80mm ones available. You would have to remap it with a J3 chip etc of course

Maybe, however I have no idea which one, where to get it from or whether it will pug into the xh/el plug or where to get a new plug if not???

 

I assumed the Unichip would cover the remap negating the need for a j3 chip???

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