Wuts up? i have a 95 nissan maxima GLE and im not sure about what to do with an intake. I was wondering if i took out the air box, kept the stock midpipe and used this HKS Twin filter with a 3" adapter would it have a significant gain? If not what would be the best? Sorry im a noob to performance, but i know my stereo.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33659

 

ah no, just get a cai extension and a filter, leave the stock mid-pipe, and you got your self an intake

 

What about the injen CAI? could i install that with the stock midpipe?

 

injen doesn't make a CAI for a 4th gen Maxima.

and no that wouldn't work anyway.

 

Injen does make an intake for the 4th gen, heres 2 links. But i read about people whove had them and they said they were crap. I dont know what to do about an intake, what does the best gain?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=38634
http://www.ptuning.com/html/Item-Des...delDesc=Maxima

 

say all the people useing stock mid pipe where are you putting the o2 sensor???( the one other than the maf sensor)

 

dude that intake looks like two giant *****.

 

there are no o2 sensors on the mid-pipe. there are no sensors going into the midpipe

 

I use to have that hks thing it sounds ****in awesome on my integra people thought I had an exhuast. The thing is it uses foam filters which blow debri in your intake which is bad but you could try a couple of K&N's

 

the injen is not a CAI that's why I said they don't have a CAI

 

Injen blows dont buy it..CAI my *** more like overpriced,name brand, warm air intake...bad

 

jcwhittney sells the same thing just so know bro

 

Here's what I did with my '94 Sentra SE-R. It worked great and I plan to do it with my 97 Maxima. Cut a hole in the bottom of the stock airbox leading to the inner fender. Run 3 inch PVC pipe through the hole and use 3 inch elbow(s) to extend pipe to the front bomper. I secured the inlet of the pipe to the front bumper wher I had enlarged a pre-existing hole in the bumper. I used some caulk to seal the pipe to the air box and shored it up. I also threw in a K&N filter into the airbox. Wham-Bam, I had cold air with Ram. Once I got the car moving on the highway I felt significant improvement in throttle response. Its pretty white trash but it really worked and cost me very little. The air box in the Maxima is closer to the fender but it looks like it will work. In the end, air should be sucked and pushed into the pipe then through the air filter and then into the engine. I though I might get water, leaves, etc into the airbox but it never happened. I have to give a shout-out to my cousin, Bladerunr, for his help.

 

it is not bad....but it is over priced. it is not a true cold air intake but remember heat rises and the injen is way down there by the bottom of the radiator. i bet the air it gets is colder than the air a stillen,jwt, or any other pop charger intake gets. For the record i do not have the injen intake.

stupid - no
over priced - hell yea

 

dont waster your money on the injen, your payin for the name, if you want injen style, get a cheap one off ebay, but you cant keep your stock midpipe, which is better than aftermarkets. if you want a true cold air intake, get one off ebay that says true CAI, use your stock midpipe and run the CAI lower pipe down to the fender. this is the better intake of the 2, get a KandN filter and be done with it. dont waste your money on name brand for intake.

and READ THE DAMN STICKIES!

 

just get one of those cheap ****s off of ebay and make it short ram

 

Whatever you do, do not replace the OEM resonator with any type of midpipe. Here's an article explaining why, http://www.users.bigpond.com/pgscott...resonator.html & http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....95#post2623295. A lot of org'ers tried running with and w/o the aftermarket mid-pipe and tested it on and off track and have found that the stock resonator is over all the best. read this: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....5&pagenumber=1 . I have personally never tried Injen (wanna-be cold air) but the Place Racing was said to be the real cold air setup. However, there's a disadvantage with CAI's as many have experienced top end torque loss. There's a big thread in here that pretty much sums up every intake setup you can have, each having pro's and con's. I think the best overall performance can be had with a hacked airbox. This thread explains, http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....58#post2530158 .

I have had the HAI setup (cone + MAF adapter), I kept the stock resonator. One of these days, I'll look for the air box and hack it up. Then I'll get a K&N panel filter and run on that setup for awhile.

 

with a cold air you do not gain any on the upper rev but with a pop charger "HAI" you do not gain anything down low. choose what is more important to you.

 

those articles seem like bs not to mention how come there are so many dynos like aem who have gotten 20 horses out of there v2. Those articles dont seem right not to mention the resonater is harshly made it has rough entry for air i def think there is a benifit from a smooth resonater

just my 2 cents

 

The OEM resonator has a buffering effect that helps the flow of air into the intake manifold and into the engine from lower to the upper RPMs. I have read most of these threads and participated in many of them to know enough and help on the suggestion part. Still, everything is open to many interpretations from the people that reads them. However, those people have spent many hours testing different set-ups and going to the track to see which gave them a better performance. To me butt-dyno seems more of an obvious proof whether a perf mod did what its suppose to do or not. Certainly, going to the track and getting different times should be proof enough too but only up to a certain extent.

 

the other sensor is a intake temperature sensor, just put it somewhere by the intake, mine just free floating.

 

so whats the other sensor thats on the midpipe that the hole is drilled for then?? maybe its not a o2 sensor i jsut cant think of its name

 

hey good head the answer is right here

http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...4&postcount=21

 

thanks, by the intake as in INSIDE or jsut outside?

 

yeah i posted before i read all the way down