t-bird and 93 cobra have the same 70mm mass air meter. Its a great stock upgrade.
Some T-birds have the same 70mm MAF as the 93 Cobra. That MAF is
not useful at all for a stock system!
Use the sensor off the factory meter in your car.
Please. NEVER EVER swap electronics on MAFs - NEVER! C&L is a joke company and their products are a huge joke.
Every MAF electronic assembly
must be
custom tuned to a specific and
unique MAF body. It's a
PURE CR*P SHOOT swapping electronics to
same exact style and model MAFs.
Plus, it makes
no sense at all to swap the electronics between 2
different model MAFs. The air flow characteristics are
all different. And the
percentage of the air flow through the sensors are
all different.
If someone could design it so that the required accuracy could be obtained without custom tunning the electronics, then DO IT and make a zillion-trillion dollars!
FWIW: I'm now doing my
third first in a particular industry design that allows for the electronics to be custom tuned (without the $$ way that it used to be done, or the $$$ Auto OEMs do it). Custom tuning electronics have been done for many years. Actually, since the industry started.
It's now becoming more common in more industries. Still, there is a *long* way to go (good for me I guess
).
A simple cheap 10-bit ADC (analog to digital converter) gives 1024 values over the voltage range. That's a means an accuracy of better than 0.1% is needed in the analog and other electronics if you don't want to just measure real-life tolerances (and noise). In reality, over temperature and voltage, that's very hard to do. That's why for when accuracy is needed in a more than a few units and they don't want to spend the $$ doing custom tuning the "old ways", they hire consultants ($$$$$ - but cheaper when spread out over _many_ units) like me.
FWIW: I can get a self contained "system on a chip" that has a 14-bit ADC (~16K values over the voltage range), CPU that executes ~5 million instructions per second, EEPROM (Flash), RAM, timers, and a ton of other good things for less than $5 - yes less than five dollars! But, getting
overall analog accuracy (over temp, voltage, many units, etc) better than 1% (without high component costs) is still not common.
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CY8C29466-24SXIT ; Program Memory Size 32K x 8 ; RAM Size 2K x 8 ;
Number of I /O 24 ; Speed 24MHz ; Controller Series CY8C29 PSOC™ ;
Data Converters A/D 4x14b; D/A 4x9b
