Mass Air Flow sensor. Used to measure the amount of air entering the intake. This sensor works by heating an element and then measuring the rate of c...
Subject: Re: Hey guess what? My car runs again! by SpectatorRacing on 2009/6/17 2:11:52
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Josh wrote: Have you considered plunging a hole into the back of the intake and running a conventional small cap distributor?
I have a spacer/shim for this application sitting on my desk, I use it as a paper weight. If you want, I'll ship it to you. Just pay for shipping, and send me a rock or some other equally useful paper retention tool.
I've considered this many times. In fact, last year when I had a different issue that I couldn't figure out (turned out to be a new coil - bad out of the box) I pieced together a price list to do all of this. Drilling the intake and getting a new computer aren't pricey, but the new harness I'd want was going to be $400.
Every time I get to that point, however, I think I've got the optispark problems fixed. Like many problems, if I had just done this years ago I would have saved headaches, time, and of course money. Probably worth doing if I ever have another failure, I'll PM you my address.
I have lots of parts lying around that aren't necessarily useless, anything you can think of that you need? I might have one and can send it when I go to FedEx to send Bill the VATS elimination box...
