strainer question

[QuickAudi at aol.com]

I'm not sure about your car, but I'll tell you about a friend of mine's '97 A4 2.8q that we messed with this weekend.  We did the "cut the stack in the middle of the MAF housing, install a cone air filter, and remove the screen behind the MAF" project.  Thing ran like crazy and sounded oh so sweet at 4k rpm, but every time he hit the clutch, it'd drop down to 200 rpm and would not recover.  Solution?  Put the screen back in, and she ran fine.  Theories abound, like he needs a velocity stack or the screen put just enough resistance to keep a little of the air back, etc.  So, yeah, I think it's important.  Might not give you 20 hp back, but it might smooth out some stuff for ya.

Joel
'90 V8q
'86 5kcstq


In a message dated 5/4/2004 9:29:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, quattro-request at audifans.com writes:

> I had the intake boot removed from the air flow meter on my 80q (ng) and
> found the strainer to be really bent up.
> How important is this part? Should I be looking for a new 
> one or just
> pretend it was never there?