More air w/o the fuel to accommodate, especially under load is asking for trouble. And a little ping is too much ping on habitual occurrences. Air/fuel/spark, all at the right time & proportion, or efficiency, performance & eventually hardware will be lost. People think they can just bolt something new in or onto today's engines & they're good to go. Not so. Unless it's within the ECU's ability to accommodate, the ECU will need a new set of rules to go by, or the engine (& you) will pay the price eventually.
Ignition upgrade to allow increased plug gap & also increase your base timing advance. No arguments about these mods! The ECU will accommodate! http://fullsizebronco.com/forum/show...ht=timing+bump

 

I am also not a noob. I cut my teeth on Ford EFI. I couldnt tell you how to change jets in a carb, but I can tell you what voltage your TPS should be set at.

There is more than enough fuel in the OEM maps to accommodate many bolt-ons. Without a tune it wont be optimal, but it wont be dangerous either. Newer OBD II have tighter tolerences due to tighter emissisions standerds. They should be handled a bit more cautiously. For example a 2005 F150 with headers, CAI, exhaust, larger TB, and pulleys will need to be tuned. A 95 like mine or the 94 like the op's will be just fine.

 

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All 3 vehicles mentioned are CAI's stock. If your advising a hi-flow CAI Mod for a non-MAF engine, I'd have to disagree. It has no way of determining air flow, so no way to adapt to it.

 

Fortunately or unfortunately, intelligence isn't what's missing here!

 

Although I do agree here..but the MAF does offer a degree of adjustment that a Speed Density doesnt....

you can also get a MAF inline calibrator or have the current one re-calibrated for mods...much cheaper than re-flashing a Speed Density system...

 

I assumed when I said "CAI" we would be on the same page as to what that is.

Many thousands of cars and trucks have been opened up on both ends running Speed Density. In the foxbody Mustang world the modded SD cars were feared by similarly modded MA cars.

 

I completely agree.

 

I will say for the record one can only do so much with a MAF system...

at least on GM I know that when certain power levels are needing to be achieved they go back to speed density systems...

not sure about Fords as they have a digital MAP sensor that works the voltage backwards of GM and Chrysler's analog MAP set up....

as far as I know most of the Mustangs were MAF...I didnt get into teh early ones...the 87 I worked on was factory MAF...

 

Ive seen well over 1k horsepower on factory mass air (albeit with a custom tuned chip).

All EFI Mustangs were Speed density up to 1988 except for the California emissions cars which were Mass Air in 1988.