I recently put together an intake for a 2.2L XFE, i cut my own hole in the pipe for the MAF sensor, but i could only secure it with 1 screw, it ran great for acouple trips , then started to die when i hit the gas, Note: car only has 7k miles on it.... anyways i put the stock intake box back on an put the MAF on that, and it runs fine now... my question is ... is it really that sensitive? or did i just do something wrong

 

You didnt have any codes.
There should of been a few if the car was dying because iof the maf I would think.

Put up a pic of the set up you had.

Did you have it in the right way ?

 

what do you mean the right way? does it matter which side is facing which way? and no there was no codes... it started dying and sputtering so i got it home and swapped the intake back b4 i got an engine light