Can I remove my AFM?
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Can I remove my AFM?
Just got an intake kit and in order to install the pipe I have to remove the mass air flow sensor. Before I remove it will the car run if I take it out? And if it won't how can I bypass this?
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umm... what intake kit did you buy? i dont know of one that replaces the AFM or one that even comes with a pipe. you cant replace it unless you change you computer to a full standalone. and for an intake all you need if you have a s4 is a adaptor for the AFM and a filter + maybe a cold air box. and for a s5 you dont need adapter just attach the cone filter the the AFM.
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Screw it I'll just put the cone filter on the AFM. I'll just find somewhere else the pipe might be useful. I already attached the cone to the AFM and it sounds pretty mean. Damn S5's and their electronics!
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how exactly does the afm work? there are some great engineering minds on here. im sure theres gotta be a way to rig up something to take it out other then a standalone.
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I'd imagine it moniters airflow and adjusts the fuel mixture according to how much air is coming in. I'd also assume that if it doesn't recieve a signal from this device it can't properly adjust the fuel so how would a standalone compensate for this?
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how exactly does the afm work? there are some great engineering minds on here. im sure theres gotta be a way to rig up something to take it out other then a standalone.
how exactly does the afm work? there are some great engineering minds on here. im sure theres gotta be a way to rig up something to take it out other then a standalone.
The HKS VPC was used on the stock ecu, and enabled the deletion of the afm. It simply used a MAP sensor, and mocked the voltage the afm would be sending to the ecu had it been there based on airflow. Unfortunately, this was only available for the s5 turbo II's, and it's both rare and expensive.
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Originally posted by flamin-roids
Hmm thats interesting. Would I get more air without the afm?
Hmm thats interesting. Would I get more air without the afm?
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Has anyone ever integrated a computer using destop components (i.e. Athlon64 or Pentium4) and been able to program it to run your car? I've often toyed with this thought because it would be inexpensive and interesting.
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Has anyone ever integrated a computer using destop components (i.e. Athlon64 or Pentium4) and been able to program it to run your car? I've often toyed with this thought because it would be inexpensive and interesting.
... HOWEVER ...
...almost all aftermarket standalone EMS units are fully programmable by a PC (usually a laptop connected to the ECU tuning it in either realtime - the better systems - or through maps loaded when the car is shut off for the lesser ones). Further, if you are really into DIY, check out the megasquirt project. I know of at least one rotary engined vehicle running the megasquirt, and its a true DIY embedded system ECU which has a LOT of very cool features but is very difficult to program and control properly. I'd recommend if you use it on a rotary, that you do so on an NA initially until you become knowledgable about the system and how to tune it for a rotary properly. Google up the megasquirt and check it out. You might have a heck of a lot of fun with it (and waste a few years of your life figuring it out in the first place!).
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Originally posted by flamin-roids
Has anyone ever integrated a computer using destop components (i.e. Athlon64 or Pentium4) and been able to program it to run your car? I've often toyed with this thought because it would be inexpensive and interesting.
Has anyone ever integrated a computer using destop components (i.e. Athlon64 or Pentium4) and been able to program it to run your car? I've often toyed with this thought because it would be inexpensive and interesting.
And then you may ask "Whats a Megasquirt?"
To which I reply "Search young grasshopper."
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I know this post is pretty old, but I remember from my DSM days that HKS made a vein pressure converter which you could remove the air meter. There were ofcourse problems with that, but none the less, a way to get rid of it
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I know this post is pretty old, but I remember from my DSM days that HKS made a vein pressure converter which you could remove the air meter. There were ofcourse problems with that, but none the less, a way to get rid of it
I know this post is pretty old, but I remember from my DSM days that HKS made a vein pressure converter which you could remove the air meter. There were ofcourse problems with that, but none the less, a way to get rid of it
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