removing the air silencer

I have a 1997 Thunderbird and I was wanting to do some performance upgrades to it. It has the 3.8 liter V6. I have heard of people removing the air silencer and/or cutting out the mass airflow sensor. What are the advantages to these two things and how do you remove the air silencer or cut out the mass airflow sensor?

you don't wanna take out the MAF sensor. as for the air silencer, go here:
http://www.ntjacc.com/tech/air_silencer.html

Dont remove the mass airflow sensor serious problems might occurr to the way your motor runs when my mafs broke my car ran so bad it would stall when was stopped

That link didn't work for me. It kept saying that the web page could not be displayed. Are there any other resources that you know of that I could use?

yea, i always fudge up my address for some reason.

http://www.njtacc.com/tech/air_silencer.html