Guys,

This one has probably been done to death but hear goes.

Just had a MAF failure and am running an ITG panel filter. When I took the air filter casing off both sides of the filter was coated with oil....I know the itg is an oil based filter but event he wire mesh next to the MAF was coated which leads me to believe the ITG was the cause.

Is this normal and has anybody else had problems with an itg filter and a MAF sensor. Is there a better filter or should I go back to the bog standard one. Now running my mates MAF in my car with a standard filter and there does not seem to be alot of change, accept problem solved with the MAF that is....

what you think guys an gals


JimmyR

 

there are loads of old threads discussing this issue, which is prob why u have been ignored. The prob does sound like its the filter from what you have described. The sponge does 'squash' in the box squeezing out some oil, causing MAF failures.

There are few people that believe there is any gain from changing the paper filter (to another replacement element) - so not worth
the risk. Unless u go for a Cone/Induction...noise and a few bhp to gain.

I do recall recently reading of a MAF failure on a standard filter!
So I guess it pot luck.

I did lots of searches as I was thinking of changing to help the beast breath, but decided to stay as is. Search back to 98 and follow the trend in thinking. About 1 yr ago ITG was the daddy, now more and more people are changing back to stock.

 

Woz,

Thanks for that mate just what I was thinking of doing as I said been running my mates standard filter with not a lot of change to the car so if it safer the ITG goes.

thanks

jimmyr

 

Ive been running an ITG filter for a while noprobs(saying that MAF sensor failure imminent)
The green gundge usually gravitates to the bottom of the filter and is easily wiped away.
I am not sure of any performance increase if I'm honest though
Nige

[Edited by Rasher - 4/16/2003 6:58:39 PM]

 

intresting. think i will try another type

steve

 

Kiss of death.....

ITG for 15k miles on my Fugly and no problems. I put the paper effort back in a while back and there was less noise from the engine bay and it felt a bit more lethargic at low revs. My imagination maybe?

Steve