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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI began by removing the air box from the car. This step may\nnot be necessary, but I am used to puling the air box for everything. I preferred to make the swap on the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon removing the air box top I was shocked at how much tire\ndebris had been picked up at the last race. \nI need to either reinstall the inner fender liner or make a deflector\nfor the air intake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vane flow sensor is held in place by four bolts from the\ninside of the air box. Three are easy to\nget to. It took me a while to come up\nwith an appropriate tool to access the last one. I ended up using a six-inch\nwobble extension on a short 10mm socket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Rouge conversion is sold by Lindsey Racing now. I bought\nthis one used from a fellow racer who had changed to the 16-valve engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I bolted the new tube in place of the old sensor. The opportunity for increased air flow is\nvery noticeable looking into each inlet port. \nI\u2019m not sure what sensor is used by the Rouge kit, but the wiring\nadapter plugs right into the 944 harness for a neat installation. There is an extra wire that connects to the\npositive side of the coil to give the sensor a 12V power source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The connection into the J tube was snug so I used some\nrubber lubricant to aid in slipping it into place. I then tightened the clamp and the air box\nfasteners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next, I pulled out my ECU. This is much easier in my race\ncar than one with the ECU under the carpet. I have previously converted to the\n28 pin ECU so I did not have to do that modification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All I had to do was pry out the old chip and snap in the new\nchip and adapter board. I then put the lid back on and reconnected the ECU to\nthe harness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The engine started up just like normal and idled normally. I\ncould not tell any difference. A quick\ntest drive showed that it pulled much stronger in the higher RPMs indicating\nmore air flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real test will be getting it back on the race track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rouge Mass Air Flow conversion for 944 NA I recently replaced the vane air flow sensor in my 944 race car with the Rouge Mass Air Flow sensor. The conversion was extremely easy to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[542,210,231,530],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/rougechip.jpg\")
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