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have you had a look at night from behind the car, is it possible your pops have turned into little flames instead? You have injector duty active and -20 negative timing on both log snips so you have the building blocks there for tickets to the gun show. If the vac level/amount of air in the manifold has changed (due you to you creating/fixing a leak) then the result would be a change in the amount of fuel introduced on overrun which would change the end result.
are you running a standard recirc dump valve or aftermarket jobby?
where is the boost gauge T'd off from?
what happens if the boost gauge "accidentally" falls off again? Is it possible there was a bit of a leak there before and it effected the operation of the dump/recirc valve?
Bit of a puzzle there because its running better than ever how is the maf at fault as it would be running crap but then again are you not running maflezs map that only take intake temp or something like that?