I did a search and couldn't find anything that gave me a straight answer to my question. My friend has a 97 Max and wants to order the frankencar mid-pipe, but before ordering he wants to know if he can use the Stillen intake with the stillen bracket or would it require modification to fit with the mid-pipe? If he keeps the stillen will he have to use another support bracket?

 

Sure it'll fit. The Stillen pop goes on the MAF sensor with the MAF adapter included. And the Frankencar midpipe goes from the TB to the other side of the MAF. Many people have this setup for their intake.

TB > coupler > midpipe > coupler > MAF > adapter > Stillen pop

 

so the bracket will still sit in the same place?

 

'bracket', you mean MAF adapter?? Yes it goes in the same place.

 

The Stillen intake comes with this big bracket that bolts to one of the stock bolts where the bottom portion of the old intake box use to sit and the other bolts up to one of the MAF bolts, and it's function is to act as a support for the pop charger. Maybe if you can answer this I would be able to figure it out, is the mid-pipe and the section being removed from the car and being replaced by the mid-pipe the same length?

 

OH , I know what you mean now but to tell the truth I'm not sure. Try measuring. If it's not the same length maybe you can just eliminate that bracket support thing. It's not NEEDED. The filter should fit just fine, I've seen it before.

 

thank you

 

I have this setup. They will fit. I have a 97 GXE with f.midpipe and s.k&n with bracket.

Do they fit? Yes.
Do you have to align the midpipes to make them fit? Yes.
Bottomline: They will fit together with some effort in arranging the midpipe connections.

You will know what I am talking about when you install these two.

 

thanks for the warning

 

i have a stillen pop intake, and was thinking about doing the mid pipe. i like the sound of my intake now, but heard that the mid pipe makes it louder (since its removing a resonator). how much louder is the intake with the midpipe. i dont mind an increas upon WOT, but would be annoyed if it droned while crusing at normal speeds or on the highway.

 

the midpipe will make it sound more deep and throaty rather than the weak "waaaaaa" from just the pop intake alone. no droning at all, just better sound

 

At normal cruising you barely hear it below 2k rpm. 2k and up WOT, it just screams. God I love it!!!!

 

I got JWT+midpipe and I think JWT alone make the deeper and throaty sounds than the JWT+midpipe.
Since JWT and Stillen pop are almost the same (some people said the stillen pop is even deeper), I don't agree that the midpipe will make the sound deeper.
However, I DO agree the midpipe is much louder.

 

I have this setup too. The bracket does fit fine right where it is. Just make sure you don't tighten any of the brackets on the couplers until everything is aligned. You're going to have to do a little bit of twisting and turning but everything does fit, pretty snugly too.

 

thanks