Freon wrote:The whole point of a hot wire MAF is that it does not vary (much?) with humidity, temperature, and atmospheric pressure. By far, the MAF should react to mass air flow, not other factors.
You are absolutely correct Sir Freon
. The unfortunate regard to this with EVO's however is that the hz value is afterwards adjusted by the baro table and temp table before ECU precieved load is figured.
I discovered something recently that was somewhat interesting. A year ago about the sametime I started datalogging I noticed unusual knock activity at low loads and RPM, from 5"Hg - 5 psi charge pressure (appx. 100% load and 2500 rpm). I spent about a year trying to find the source, from external "phantom" possibilities and engine harmonic, to tune and fuel. Found nothing.
About the same time I gave up on it, and for another reason I decided to change my MAF scale and smoothing tables back to the original OEM values. They have been this way for awhile, for about as long as I've been datalogging. The first drive with the tables defaulted I immediately noticed a marked decrease in part-throttle/low RPM knock, about a 50% decrease in knock sum.
I'm about 80% confident that this was the source of the knock and my assumption on it's mechanism is a difference between actual and ECU precieved load where the knock filter made it over sensitive.