ei3dag3

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Why do you not include a premade gasket for the maf sensor?
I just kind of blew it off when i got the cold side a while back, and made a little crappy rubber gasket. It worked for a while but after meeting up with SSlobalt yesterday afternoon and hooking up his homemade boost checker to 26 psi on his compressor we realized that the boost leaks I thought I had created when i put my hot side on a few weeks ago with bov, was not the culprit.
We felt it was leaking around the tb, the maf sensor and the ma sensor.
Wasn't really sure if it was the also the tb, but either way we took everything off.
Went to autozone and got some fiber gasket maker, some red hightemp rtv and fixed the issue.
Then we put the cold side back on with new clamps, etc and fixed all the boost issues.
now my only issue is i need to get new screws that will hold the map down because the ones cia sent didn't even fit the threading right and weren't tight.


Sellers of the maf sensor relocate seriously need to consider making a gasket.
I shouldn't have the create my own and put rtv to make a proper seal.
without the rtv the gasket maker stuff I used still didn't 100% seal it, but now it is.
Thats retarded.

Thanks again to SSlobalt for helping me out for hours last night to get all the seals perfect, and the cold side back in. Was a pain in the ass especially in the dark with no lights. I really appreciate the help.

09CobaltSS1

The gasket on the MAF is completely re-usuable so there really shouldn't be a need to include a new one

ei3dag3

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in not talking about the MAP.
I'm talking about the MAF, the one that goes into your stock airbox, or in your case hahn intake.
It doesn't have a gasket, because it reads metered air and there is no need for a great seal because it isn't compressed boost.
When you move it to the cold side with the MAF relocate it reads boost.
It needs a gasket.

mkulrey13

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Mine works fine. I have the ZZP Pipe.

ei3dag3

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cool.
however i've read plenty of people talking about having boost issues with it there.
a friend of my conroycavscout also had the exact same issue a while back.
every manu should make a gasket for it.

every manu uses the same pad.
it should come with a gasket.
mine was fine for months, up until the past week.

mkulrey13

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Its not hard to make a gasket. But if its a known problem then it should come with one. Ive just never heard of the issue.

09CobaltSS1

when did I ever say anything about the MAP sensor????

and yes it does indeed have a gasket!

ei3dag3

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pics, because my car didn't have one. i'm looking at my stock airbox and theres nothing there, and the maf sensor never had one on there either?
i bought my car new, and never saw one.

yea i made one, it's just annoying. spent 190 then have to make a ghetto gasket lol.
did your maf come with a gasket on it?

ConroyCavScout

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i just checked both my MAF sensors, the one that went and my new one. both have a black rubber gasket at the base of it. and the other sensor is not your map sensor, that is on the top of your intake manifold, it is a measured air meter or something like that, 114 from autozone if you blow one.

09CobaltSS1

I pulled the gasket back a bit and circled it

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ei3dag3

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yea my maf sensor sure as hell didn't have that.

09CobaltSS1

interesting.. are you sure you didn't drop it or misplace it somehow?

ei3dag3

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yea def, where i do my mods in one of the houses my parents used to rent out.
its been empty for ages. it would have either been on the garage floor and i would have seen it.
i remember pulling out the maf sensor once to take a pic of it and i never saw a gasket before.

ConroyCavScout

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ok dude, i just bought all new sensors, according to the gm part number 12592017, it is "SENSOR INT AIR PRESS & TEMP," and is located on the cold pipe. The map sensor i bought gm part number 12592016 was installed onto the top of the intake manifold, lemme find a pic

09CobaltSS1

It is a MAP sensor.. Manifold Absolute Pressure sensor.. hense it being located in your intake manifold

edit: my bad, I thought that you said the one on your mani isn't a MAP sensor.. sometimes it pays to read..

I don't even know where you could get a new gasket for the MAF really other than buying a new MAF... or just making one like you did. Is the gasket you made holding boost fine?

ei3dag3

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well even with your gasket you still had the leak.
and i've heard of several other people having the same issues. mostly just people pm'ing me about the maf relocate.

no worries just a confusion. all the sensor is for is to reference between the maf and that air temps in the cold side.
thats all it is. no need for pics, just a brain fart.

ConroyCavScout

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mkulrey13

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Yea mine has a gasket. weird yours didnt.

ei3dag3

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yea even with the gasket it still wasn't sealed well with conroycavscouts, he also had a string of other issues. but all mine was was a boost leak.
-hands in air-

ConroyCavScout

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thats cuz only 3 sides of the gasket stayed on after we tightened it down, never had any issues after i sealed it with rtv. i didnt use any with my new maf and the stock gasket is working just as good.

Iam Broke

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As does mine. There is a silicone rubber seal on the MAF sensor to seal it to the CP when properly mounted.

SSlobalt

I really need to get some new droplights. Flourescent, I guess, so we don't burn ourselves. Glad you made it home. That was a royal pain.