On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, FONTA wrote:

> The DPR as it names says controlls the difference in preasure from the
> upper and lower chambers, its controlled by the o2 sensor and the mass
> air flow (located at the side of the airbox - opposite side from the
> DPR) If you unplug the DPR the computer gets into a limp-home state
> which lets the car run but really badly, missfireing, really low
> power, etc. The DPR?s do go bad.
>

Slight correction- the box on the other side of the fuel distributor is a
flow plate potentiometer, that just measures where the flow plate is. It
is only used when the car is warming up, and is not really too necessary.
It's not actually a true mass air flow sensor.


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