Is there any benefit in running unscreened in my application?
no, but again, will throw off your calibration a bit. we've always figured that screen is probably there to reduce turbulance for more accurate readings (which doesn't make a huge difference in reality, but make sense from a design standpoint) and to stop crumbling peices of that air filter you haven't changed in 200,000 miles from ending up destroying your maf wires