The original MAF Casing as shown at the top of the webpages was OK and seemed to attract enough attention at meetings but I had other ideas floating around in my head. It needed to match the engine more closely and how could I produce it. Eventually end of last year I had some drawings in Autodesk Inventor finished and was speaking to a neighbour of mine with a CNC machine about machining it from a block of aluminium. Unfortunately the finished drawing model turned out to be about 1.3 kilos, so it was back to the drawing board.
Too busy early in the season to do much work on it but the last few weeks I put on a spurt to finish it for the Santa Pod BMW event on the last weekend of September 2015. It’s now been fabricated on my milling machine from separate aluminium sections epoxied around the Bosch sensor tube with the sensor itself plugged in the back in the same way. There are some more descriptions with the photos.
Mini Mill setup to machine the parts
are they ready for purchase
Hi Sherman,
Be cool if they were but I just fabricated it in my small shop because I didn’t like the plastic tube quality of the Bosch sensor. It wasn’t a commercially viable production solution so there is no way I could manufacture them to sell commercially at any kind of profit. It’s only really meant to show how an amateur can create some cool stuff if you put your mind to it. Thanks for the interest though. My engine compartment always attracts interesting discussions at shows and meets which is one of the reasons I do it.
Very impressive job Martyn. Full respect. Awesome job, 💪👍👍👍