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Let me start by saying ,I am new to this community , but have many years exp in the auto industry , lets go to what my project is , i have a 2003 kia rio that i keep around the house for knock around car , i got this thing with 36k miles and now it has 180k before the first timing belt broke , so i got my wife another car and have started playing with this thing , since they blow all to pieces when the timing belt broke , i had to replace all valves and guides , long story short , i have the little thing running pretty good , no codes and all my values in the live data mode look good not that much correction in the short term fuel correction , how ever i am seeing some high intake air temps , which i think has a lot to do with the design , so i am thinking if i can get these numbers down some i might see better life out of the little motor , so my question would be has anybody ever tried to tune one of these little motors with out the up stream converter , this thing creates a lot of under hood temps while you are in traffic , i can watch the intake temps drop 30 deg just by getting out on the hwy , i am going to build a different intake tube that should help good bit , this filter box and its location would be another source of intake temp build ups as well , any comments or helps would be much appreciated