Dilirious

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What's been done removed injen cai and placed stock intake back on.

Alright here's my problem.

Car starts fine but when I get out of the driveway and put it into drive the car is still fine but when I start to gas up to 20 car starts to sputter and if I keep gassing it, the engine will stall. But if I keep the rpms under 2.5k I can drive under 20mph and still keep driving but as soon as i start to rev it more it sputters and stalls out.

Also in neutral or park if i rev it up it also will sputter and if enough will stall.

Anyone ever has this problem?

BZinn1

did you reset the battery,let it run for 5 minutes with no revving......if not then there is the problem,also check to be sure the tube at the TB is not on too far and blocking the butterflys movement,also check the clamps for leaks,also did you un hook the battery before un hooking the MAF.......if not you may have toasted it.......

Dilirious

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is there a way to see if the MAF is toasted?

kileil

You can take the car to an Autozone, Checker, etc and ask them to read the code.

Yeah, its probably the MAF

Dilirious

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Hmm well I can't really get my car on to a 40mph road lol so ya

kileil

heh, well you could unplug the MAF entirely. If its running just as crappy, that'd suggest the MAF isn't doing a thing for ya

cburglb34

hey dude sounds like ur maf maybe try cleaning it....but i currently have had the problem

Dilirious

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hmm is there a specific way of cleaning it?

would a picture help of it lol(doubt you can diagnose it with just a picture)

Dilirious

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wait so is this safe to try

take off the MAF sensor and start up the car and drive it around the block and see if it is doing the same thing?

cburglb34

yep its safe it will just make u run in limp mode so u will have bad gas mileage and u most likely wont be able to go over 60mph

Dilirious

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so if i do disconnect the maf sensor and it still is causing the problems what does that mean?

kileil

Heh, it would mean you need to buy a new one

cburglb34

no if the car still runs like poop with the maf un connected...then something else is bad but if the car runs better when unplugged then ur maf is effed

Dilirious

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alright tried your test of unplugging the MAF and let the ecu restart and connected everything back up and still starts up and when reved to higher rpms sputters and will stall if kept at higher rpms. I am going to try it one more time and let it reset for longer and try it later on tonight so i guess it does look like i need a new MAF.

just curious if buying a new maf doesn't fix the problem what else could be wrong

insight420

that's not going to work. on the tC, the MAF sensor also incorporates the IAT sensor. with the sensor(s) unplugged, the PCM sees an intake air temp of -40, thus causing an exeedingly rich A/F mixture and stalling out. sorry guys.

Dilirious

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^^ alright then is there any other way to test if the MAF sensor has gone bad because while unplugged it still does the same exact thing when connected

gingles

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ive never heard of you toasting the MAF from unplugging it with the battery still connected....i have done it probably around 20 times with no problems

Dilirious

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^^ any other thoughts or comments on that

I am taking any suggestions to resolving this problem

As for unplugging do you mean removing ?

insight420

absolutely. i'd recommend getting a digital multi-meter and do resistance and voltage drop testing on the MAF/IAT. either/both of those two figures being out of spec can cause air metering problems.

Dilirious

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Can reseting the ecu work too?
If so how do you do that?