There was a modification for my last car (1988 Honda Prelude Si) which I did which appears can be done to the 2nd Gen Maxima too. This mod is for people in warm climates that do not get lower temps than 30 in the winter time.

Throttle Body Coolant By-Pass mod. (Its very simple)

A hose from the main coolant flow is diverted into the throttle body to warm it up , and we all know you don't want heated air, then the coolant is diverted out back into the next place where the coolant normally goes. If you run a hose from the main coolant flow exit port to the "re-entrance" port it will avoid the throttle body all together causing no 180degree coolant to flow threw it.


BEWARE, winter time in cold climates your throttle body will cause you pain and agony with this mod.

 

the funny thins is that i already done that by accident, and with San Diego weather ill be fine.

 

that mod also worked on the 2003-up corollas, and a guy in canada did it and said he never had any problems. are the throttle bodies in the 2nd gen that sensative ?

 

I have done it on both of my maximas. Its not hard to do once your have your plenum off. I did this mod on my 98 because I am running a pathfinder TB, and I did it on the 87 because the coolant lines did not match up on my stanza TB.

 

Same here, lines dodn't match up anyway. I'm not exactly sure what my TB is from though. Could be a Stanza, or possibly from a pickup, but I think it was a 200SX. Doesn't matter, they all have KA24E's anyway.