Anyone use a MAF Translator Pro

[91turbotalon]

I'm curious has anyone on here that has used a maft translator PRO that would be able to give me some some feed back about it.I'm thinking about trying it out using the speed density set up and a msd dis2 H O w/ a c.o.p (mainly using the msd dis for the 2 stage rev limiter and tach output.

 

[Spln_Hrd]

You should still have a tach on a 1g with COP unless its a 90. You sound like a good canidate for dsmlink. The two goals you would achive could be done with dsmlink and a 3bar map.

 

[95blackGsTurbo]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/newbie-forum/245837-maf-translator-pro.html
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/tun...on-speed-density-other-options-explained.html
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/tuning-engine-management/185716-maft-pro.html

 

[91turbotalon]

I had a dsm link.It was ok but I was wanting to try something different,im probably going to just get a ems

 

[whiteythepimp]

You should still have a tach on a 1g with COP unless its a 90. You sound like a good canidate for dsmlink. The two goals you would achive could be done with dsmlink and a 3bar map.

what do you mean you should still have a tach on a 1g with COP unless its a 90?? Just Ordered my COP and its going on a 90.. Have dsmlink already...

 

[seminoles2005]

ive had a safc, maf-t, dsmlink, and now im using maf pro. I have to say maf pro is by far the easiest to work with. If you can follow directiong correctly or know someone who can put the base/tune into the program youll be set. You'll need a wideband and wire it into the translator while using speed density.

Though dsmlink was easy and as a lot of things that maf pro cant offer i was just wanting something that will keep my car running just as good as it did the night before because with the weather here in tennessee lately its hard to guess how the car will run. That means if itll be a cold day when the car was tuned then youll wake up the next morning and its muggy and warm and the car feels like poop.

With maf pro if you want to run 11.5 a/r when your throttle is pressed 50% it will automatically add fuel and track your wideband reading to get it to stay at 11.5 constantly so youll run the same air fuel everytime

 

[v8s_are_slow]

I had it and hated it. For starters, they forgot to add my type of wideband to the instructions. The directions weren't THAT clear. They sure as heck don't tell you what a lot of the parameters mean, etc. and support was minimal at best. Usually the same 2 people always replied to me. I was having to use a laptop to monitor some of the parameters and my datalogger for my fuel trims, etc. Screw that!!! I want either laptop or pda but not both. Thing I hated most was the fact that I had to cut a couple of my wires on the stock harness and use vampire clamps for the rest of the wires which of course cut into your wiring harness as well.....unless they've come out with a harness that prevents you from having to cut your stock harness. And the dealer no longer makes that harness so good luck if you jack it all to hell. Sent it back for a refund. I'd stick with Dsmlink or something else all together. Hell, I'd use the original GM Translator before I'd use it ever again.

That's my 2 cents. But it's your money.

 

[seminoles2005]

when i had a safc i had to tap my wires into the harness anyway. They recommend that you use vampire clamps but i just soldered everything in. When i had dsmlink i would usually go back and have to make adjust ments to my fuel trims and timing every other week just to get my car running perfectly everytime. When a local guy first got this for his evo and i took a ride in it i was sold. He owns his own shop here and has practically been selling maf pro to everyone here because the majority of customers he gets are soldiers wanting something simple to set and forget. The good thing about it is that he will put this on an dsm/evo, set everything up and not worry about the customer coming back to complain about the tune.

Something cool about this when i first got it i had a scm6152e and blew it, in about 3 hours i removed the turbo, slapped on a small 16g i had sitting in my garage, turned the car on and drove directly to the track, pulling over twice on the way there only to set the boost. When i had it set at 25psi with my meth on i was running 8.2s at 87. I know my ets sucked but im just saying that if you want something simple where you rarely have to adjust it after its been set you wont have any problems with it. I still havent touched it since ive went from a scm 6152e to a small 16g to a gt35r and it still runs great.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

If it was only a few wires you have to hook up, it'd be no big deal. But it's a bunch of wires you have to hook up and I believe it was 2 wires on the stock harness you have to cut all the way thru. Not for me. One day I was driving down the road and my car just died at a busy intersection. I was pretty dang busy trying to figure out what happened. Apparently, the unit had reset itself or something. And luckily I had my laptop where I could just load the last tune I had. Otherwise I would've been there FOREVER setting the thing up, pressing the buttons a million times to get each section setup. No one on the forum could explain why it did this.

Anyway, the information on it is very minimal. Support was very minimal. I'll say that some guys do well with it but for some reason, not many fast guys are using it. It's still limited on the things it can do as well. You'd still have to get a chip or something if ya wanna use a stutterbox or antilag cause this unit doesn't have it. If the unit had more support, and a better program for computer use, they had a plug-in harness, etc. it'd be way better. They've been talking about a plug-in harness when I had it and that's been a couple of years at least. Guess they still haven't come out with one??? But if they did some major improvements I'd say sure, get it.

None of my friends wanted to get it after I had so many problems with it. And if I needed some help with it, I had none of my friends to turn to cause none of them knew how to use it. If I would've bought Dsmlink, everyone around the corner has one and plenty of people to lend a hand. Just do more research on it and know all the in's and out's before ya commit to buying it. That's all I'm gonna say.