which intake is better in your opinion, cold air or regular intake. and which companies is good to buy from? any help is apprecriated

 

A Piggie Racing CAI would be a good bet. PM Little Piggie and see if he's still backed up on them or not.

Otherwise you can just make your own custom short ram intake with a MAF adaptor and a 3" cone filter.

 

he is backed up still ive been waiting since october however mr gone may be helping him out soon !!!! yeah !!

 

Get off the computer and get to work then Shawn!

 

i think he's eating dinner.....

 

well then he needs to hurry up and finish

no time for eating

 

you people know me too well.

but when I got off the computer earlier today to get money I missed out on buying Izzy's wheels, so now I'll never leave.

stupid brakes are never going to be used

 

Call up Cattman and ask for a 'seconds" CAI. It will have some scratches in the paint or something meanial like that wrong with it but mine works great. Good sound under acceleration and a noticable power boost. Oh and it should be like $175..I think mine was 192 after shipping.

 

"seconds" Is this real??

 

yeah its real...basically its some that were scratched in shipping and returned or scratched before shipping and never went out...stuff like that. They may or may not have any when you call but its worth a try.

Kinda like a scratch and dent sale at a furniture store LOL.

 

where you been Michael??

 

Looking at his ACC unit....

 

Been around...I have actually posted more in the last week or so than I have in a while. Just been busy and I hate cold weather so I have pretty much stayed inside instead of working on my car. Its warm today so I am going to do a few things.

 

I wish I was finished with the car so I could enjoy the ACC besides just looking at it LOL.

I really turned a weekend project into a career with this SE.

 

Yeah I know what you mean. I get on here every morning after work and post a few things. Seen the pics of my wreck yet? Need any parts? lemme know. I have a VE 5-speed for sale

 

the whole car or parts off of it. I dont know if I saw the wreck or not. got pics?

 

I wanna part it out..i think i could get more money out of it like that. Yeah i've got some pics...I'm working on making a cardomain site b/c i had them posted on geocities and it ate up all my bandwidth. I can e-mail the pics to you if you woud like..

 

hey, im new here but the website is great...I was wondering if they make cold air intakes for the 89 maxima b/c im having the hardest time finding them and how much one would cost....any info would help... thanks,
Josh

 

yeah they make them. There is a post going right now that says a certain one on ebay will work but I dont see how and will not recomend it until I see actual pics of it installed.

I do know warpspeed sells them for 175 though and cattman makes one along with place racing.

here is the Warpspeed site with the CAI click me

 

crap, mike beat me to the punch, now i have to edit.

there is this thread selling one

and read this thread too

 

Rey, I think you and Michael are gonna be the new "google of the .org" resources...

 

there was no google involved, i just know where to look and remembered what i looked at.

 

searching
Rey

 

I need to learn how to weld
I'd be able to make my own then.
somehow I don't think muffler clamps would look right

 

Ok, Thanks

do any of you know anything about like homemade intakes because someone was telling me that they do just as good...and if so what would i need to make them Thanks again..
Josh

 

a properly made home unit will work as well as a mass produced one.

 

Well it depends on what kind of intake you are talking about. A home made pop charger (cone filter on the end of the MAF...for example go to my page) can be made cheap and works just as well as any other pop charger. That is its only good for noise. The under the hood intakes or as some call them HAI (hot air intake) dont really make power but make noise.

A home built CAI would be just as good too but you have to be able to weld in order to make one. A CAI will make some power because the air will be colder and denser since its drawn from outside of the hot engine bay.

 

Does anyone make a heat shield for a pot charger (HAI?) Would it make a diffrence?
Thanks

 

no because it will still be drawing in hot air from the surrounding motor. If you want performance get a CAI.

 

popcharger will free up some HP. i assume the temp outside and under the hood is relatively close once the car is moving at a good rate. (correct me if i'm wrong though )

 

yeah if the hood is off LOL. I have no idea actually but I would think it is still much warmer in the engine bay because of a couple of things

1. There are plastic covers on the bottom of the car so most of the air coming into the engine bay is going through the radiator (I am sure some will come up from the very bottom too). That is hot air coming out the other side of that radiator...going right into the engine bay.

2. a lot of the heat is going to be trapped in the bay because its not going to vent that well.

also why would they even make CAIs if it wasnt cooler outside the bay.

These are just guesses and I could be completely off (has happened before LOL). I do know that in the summer my car has less power because of the pop charger and drawing in all that hot air...could be all in my head though.

 

I couldnt tell a difference with a cone filter or stock modified, or that to stock, or atleast one that I can remember.

I did however feel a difference when I took off the intake resonator. I'm still waiting on a coupling so that I can install my mid-pipe.