[ilovemycar]

Originally Posted by warmonger

In fact, that is one way to tell if you maf is dead and giving bad signals. You can unplug it and start the car. If the car runs better then you need to look into MAF related issues like vacuum leaks, bad mafs, etc.

That's how i figured out a couple weeks ago that a nitrous backfire burned up my MAF. The car ran like poop, and i looked at a whole lot of things. I then unplugged the MAF, and it ran pretty good so i went and got a new one.