Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting MAF adaptor installed upside down??

I just got my csvt a few months ago and i am still finding little stuff the previous owner of the car did. Today i was looking over my intake closely because I am thinking about buying a new setup this week. Anyways while looking at the MAF adaptor I noticed that it had been installed upside down leaving an aprox 1/8-1/16 inch gap where it was allowing air to get into my intake without passing through the filter. Anyways now that ive fixed it what long term problems can i expect due to the air getting into the intake without being filtered? What aside from cleaing the MAF can I do to help/ prevent any more damage? the wierd thing about it is that the adaptor piece turned out to be an alluminum mirco, who would instal a mirco maf adaptor upside down?

Depending on how long it was like this, and how DIRTY the conditions were that he/she drove in:

dirt entering combustion chamber can slightly scratch chambers, and make the entire air tract dirty,etc causing: loss in compression, and poorer fuel mileage.

Again.. this is hard to state as fact, because of the myriad of variables there can be (conditions, maintenance, length of time, time of year.. particles in air.. etc, etc)


Clean the maf, and the TB, and hell the UIM/LIM (you will love yourself for doing this)

clean up the filter or replace (whichever your situation requires) and keep up with basic maintenance.. that is all you can do..