with it unhook and less then 6% throttle the ecu is making adjustments based on the map sensor, temp sensor and O2 sensor. it does it calculations and adjust the A/F and stepper motor to control how much air is getting by the throttle plates. so if you take one of these things out of play it has to have some sort of affect. sound to me like it is starting to run rich at them speeds Of course I can not tell you if that is in the ^5 range or not just that a few of these things work together to get desired results. Us Fa guys without map sensor's have to tune around this. If memory serves me right Walt and Peter are the only ones using a DFA to intercept voltage signals and change them to what the ECU can understand. Captain C might be using a PC3 and multi function hub to work around this.
Oh and Brembo uses the multifunction hub also.
the PCV was supposed to merge all this into one unit but they are having some issues on the one for the Rocket.