MAF sensor Options

[nzmo]

Alright, first off I believe this is my first post. Hello , I'm Anthony, I drive an 04 nissan altima not a celica. But I love celicas plus two of my close friends both drive 6gen's. Oh and this is probably my favorite forum interface on the web. Kudos.

Anyways, I was working on my friend's 94 celica ST yesterday because, well, it had a check engine light. I already knew what the problem was it had to have been his intake. I popped the hood checked out his engine bay and this is what it looked like.



There's no sort of pipe, were I believe the MAF should be. Now my friend knows nothing of his car. I took the air filter out, took out what I believe is the... heat shield? (That ugly red thing) And I started to clean his air filter, all this black smoke/ dust came out, as I tapped it against the ground. Put it back on, and let it be. Car sounds a lot nicer without, the red thing, he claims.

There's no MAF sensor piece anywhere, partly due to the fact that his wiring was messed up because he left his car overnight somewhere and someone tried to hot wire it, ripping all of the wires out of place.

Were could I get him another MAF sensor? Or better yet the pipe that contains the MAF sensor. He has all of the wiring in the back of his car but all the wires look the same. Is this bad to drive around with?

[GriffGirl]

The 94s don't have a MAF. Did you run the CEL code? What's the code? I bet it's the IAC valve if the filter was that dirty. Shame on him!

[DEATH]

Yeah - 6th gens are all MAP based so they'll run without intake piping alltho that would be a bad idea to do so without a filter.