strainer question

[Joshua Van Tol]

The screen is necessary to "smooth" the flow of air going to the 
sensing element. I suspect, but don't know for a fact that this problem 
is worse at low air flows. I think an 80q is a CIS car though, so none 
of this applies.

On May 5, 2004, at 12:59 PM, QuickAudi at aol.com wrote:

> 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?
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