ISSUE SOLVED!
I moved the maf further before the recirc line and viola, issue is gone. Since I was currently running the filter on the MAF short ram style, I just hacked up the other half of my Injen, hooked it up backwards and now have the maf and filter attatched to it cai style
but the main issue was that the maf was too close to the recirc-4 inches, if that, away from it. where as the factory injen recirc fitting is 11 inches away