swat1727

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It made a huge difference. on the MAF cleaner bottle, it says "proven to gain 4-10 hp on the wheel!" not sure if i did gain that much hp, but something got quicker. my car felt so much lighter and rpm got lower on the freeway. it was a 20 mins cleaning process, and 10 dollar worth of stuff. i think i am gonna do that every other oil change from now on.

GS4_Fiend

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becareful on cleaning the MAF because they are very sensitive. if you dont do it right, you will end up buying another one.

swat1727

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really? i just cleaned mine and i drove around for about 10 mins? no check engine light or anything, does that mean everything is cooL?

Vincent123

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how did u clean the MAF sensor and what did u buy to clean it with?

swat1727

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http://mike.focke.googlepages.com/MA...full;init:.jpg

got that from kragen for $6.99. it's very easy, unplug the MAF sensor, and there are two small screws holding it down. unscrew them and you can easily pull out the sensor. use the spray to spray the whole sensor inside and out. it drys in seconds. what i did was to spray some canned air to dry the sensor completely. it should take less than 5 mins to do. you should feel big difference after. it should save u some gas too.

GS4_Fiend

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It depends, does your throttle body have cable or is it electronic (non-cable)?

swat1727

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it's got cable. there is electronic controlled throttle body for 2nd gen gs300?

sojah

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are there any pics of this process?? like a diy cuz i am prob gonna try this out now...

young's 96

I just clean mine with the carb cleaner from Oriley's but didn't think of cla-ning the throttle body I think I will do that today.

UpstateLex

theres a DIY in the sticky

Stage3

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I'm not sure there would be any HP gains from cleaning the TB and the MAF... Think about it logically... Your car at one point came from the factory with a clean TB and MAF. If you can get them both as clean as they were from the factory (which is almost impossible to do) then you should be back to putting out the same HP numbers that you would have when the car was new. That is, of course, if there isn't any other HP loss from the factors of engine age.

I've been debating doing an MAF and TB cleaning, but have been worried about the MAF cleaning. Don't want to end up replacing it...

raytseng

Semantics. It's pretty clear the original poster really meant "recovering" the lost HP, or gains over his current situation, not gains over a factory new car.

swat1727

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haha, yeah i dont think it gave me addtional hp over the factory spec. but after 7 years of driving and 100k miles, i probably lost 20% of the hp from stock already. that little thing helped and it was easy to do. just wanted to share

GS4_Fiend

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Yes there is, i believe its 01 and up has it.

GS300Jason

I think it's false advertisement...

I highly doubt you get 4-10WHP by cleaning those parts lol.