Kerry
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looked at the corsa this mornin and after thinking it was the ICV that was causing the running problems have decieded maybe its the air flow meter as the car ran better with it disconnected
just rang to price a new one and its £283 + vat 
anyone know if there is a way of cleaning it or know anthing about it please
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MikeH
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Well you can clean it with carb cleaner, but it might not be dirty but possibly some of the wire in it is broken.
It's basically a 'hot wire anemometer' and has thin bits of wire with a voltage running through them.
I had mine changed under network Q luckily enough but yes it would have cost about £300.
Try and find one in a scrap yard.
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AK
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try cleaning it first tho...
carb or any solvent based cleaner sparyed over the element.
If the element is visably fooooked, bin it
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Kerry
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the element looks ok as in all in tact but its black so would that mean its carboned up and just needs a clean????
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MikeH
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might be full of induction kit oil.
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Kerry
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theres no induction kit 
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MikeH
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oh ok, well they always break on corsas, my car used to lose power at certain rpms and often almost stall at lights.... top speed was only 85mph too
Got it fixed and it will do 100 now.
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MikeH
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quite a good performance mod
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Kerry
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is that right havin 3 elements on one side and 2 on the other 
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MikeH
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Mine doesn't look like that so i'm not sure.
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Kerry
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wots different?
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MikeH
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mine is a tube with a matrix of square plastic holes occross it and then there is an L shaped small tube that comes down into the flow further back, i think my meter is up in this smaller pipe.
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Kerry
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this is a better pic
just sprayed with some carb cleaner and its come up ok gonna squirt down the inlet aswell and see if that helps
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MikeH
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thats NOTHING like my airflow meter.......... but my engine is the 1.2 16v which is made by suzuki... different class of engine to yours.
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AdamF
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it still might be ICV. i thought this when doing my XE ran like a sack of shite so i disconneted air flow meter and it was ok , but i still went and got a ICV and ive had no probs since.
[Edited on 19-04-2004 by AdamF]
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Paul_J
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Interesting - my old Air Flow Meter was a bit screwed - but the one I bought off scottM that I put in to replace it was missing a bit of that wire... seemed to run better at first but has been running crap since...
So what effect is having a little chunk of the grid stuff missing gonna have?
Paul J
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Kerry
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ok the result is we cleaned the air flow meter with carb cleaner and then squirted loads down the air intake pipe straight into the manifold put it all back together and so far so good 
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antscorsa
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kerry could u look at my post to see if my problem is the same as urs
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LukeGSi
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quote:
Originally posted by antscorsa
kerry could u look at my post to see if my problem is the same as urs
ill take a look but kerry's the real genius 
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LukeGSi
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Car is running much better now 
Im happy it has only cost me £3 for some carb cleaner and not £283 for a new one vaux are evil bastards 
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Kerry
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i replied
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corsafreak
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i did tell thee all that carb cleaner won't harm the airflow meter. a m8 with a primera gt gained about 15bhp after cleaning airfilter oil from his airflow sensor with carb cleaner
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Kerry
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wot 15 brake shoes. prize for the cleanest air filter competition
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corsafreak
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quote:
Originally posted by Kerry
wot 15 brake shoes. prize for the cleanest air filter competition
it was running like a dog on a rr day the mechanic sprayed the airflow meter and it gained about 15bhp on the second run, he was running about 180ish at the finish (flywheel).
he binned the pipercross induction kit after that in favour of a cotton gauze type .
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Paul_J
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I only had 71 bhp with my last air flow meter - I replaced it and got 81 bhp on the rollers - but could of probably just sprayed it instead to be honest.
gonna get carb cleaner tommorrow can't wait
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