Thanks for all the info everybody and I reall appreciate the ideas. I ran to the local pick n save near my work on lunch a couple days ago and grabbed a factory air cleaner and hose clamped a piece of pipe to the cylinder 2 header pipe and ran the flex hose from there to the air cleaner. I also had some more weirdness with the MAT sensor. When I drove home that afternoon after putting on the factory intake I realized I was still running on the chip with the MAT flag enabled and fault codes enabled and the MAT unplugged but it didn't throw any codes or affect fueling in any way which I though was odd because the MAT was reading -40 or whatever the minimum it reads is since it was unplugged.

The really crazy thing was the next morning I installed the newest chip I burnt with the MAT flag off and MAT codes disabled and all of a sudden I was running super lean in only one area of the VE table, almost like the MAT was working but only in one area? Very weird. Anyways that's only been 2 days ago so I've really only had a chance to drive the truck once but the factory air cleaner definitely has seemed to help. I had the MAT/IAT located in pretty much the same area as the factory intake flap on the factory air cleaner (I took the whole assembly apart and installed a mounting plate I made for the temp sensor). I attached a few pics of what I did and some things I noticed in regards to the temp at TBI unit vs the rest of the engine so I can definitely see what you're saying about wanting to have it set up as a MAT instead of IAT ralmo94. I may look at where I can mount the sensor closer to the TBI unit if it's still giving me some grief. I guess I just hadn't really anticipated this big of a fit out of such a mildly built engine but I guess it's still quite a bit different from stock. Also tayto I've eyeballed that intake several times but usually right before I break down and order it my wallet slaps me in the face and says keep working with what you have lol

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