I am thinking about putting air intake in my car. I was wondering which car intake i should buy. I want the intake to be a easy installation. if you have any suggestions let me know, thanks.

get the one that intakes alot of air

I suggest you get a high flow filter (K&N or AirHog) put it in your stock intake system and be done.

The stock intake system yeilds very good power...more so than a RAM intake. I chose a RAM because i am not using my Max on the tracks..i jsut wanted a louder noise.
I personally would stay away from CAI just based on a higher risk from getting water in your engine and the fact that im not that much into beatin the hell outta my Max and racing it.

Just do what i did and get an adapter so that way you can hook up a 3 inch cone filter to the stock mid pipe so whatever the MAF sensor is hooked up to and then just get a K&N cone filter and attach it. Its pretty easy and sounds very nice. Just some thoughts.

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/720766/3

I'd just say slap a cone filter on there and call it good (like Mymax97) if you want an easy installation...

Cold air gets a little more involved, but there's actually a very low risk of getting water in the engine with CAIs, the water would have to be high enough to get in through the doors if it was to suck up water... I have a CAI and I neither beat the hell out of my max nor do I race it...

I'm not trying to pick a fight here, just stating some facts...

Yep! I'm currently running a setup with just a cone filter, but I've had others as well...and I would say just upgrade the stock system with a new filter and be done.

What's "ram air" mean?

some gimmick term invented by ricers and ghey companies like wapon-r that supposedly "ads extra hp"

it means your car gets so much more power it feelis like a ram just slamed you in the a$$

will it give extra HP or is it just for sound...

i have a 99 nissan maxima and i was curious, whats the difference in performance and sound, between the cone filters against an entier CAI system. Also what site sells both for a good price, thanx

I'm guessing the "entire CAI system" your referring to would be something like an Injen...or something namebrand. I've never had any of those. I have had a homemade setup in which I had a midpipe and a cone filter, and it had a great loud sound. However, I lost low-end power with the midpipe, so I currently just have a cone filter which still has a somewhat loud sound.

Sound is all your going to be getting out of an aftermarket intake...which in turn makes you think your gaining in the performance end.

Gotcha, so i can pretty much just get a k&n cone filter and still get the same noise as if i got a cai, thanks saves me money. Also whata re some other good cone filters other then k&n?

This thread is the reason we have stickies

half you guys encourage idiot threads like these by answering seriously. let the kid read the stickies.

what are stickies and where can i find them. also whats a good price to pay for stickies? will they really improve my org performance??

They say sticky.

The first 8 threads or so on this board.

really just hoping thats a joke...

You need more than stickies, you need jesus

jesus christ read the god damn faqs before you post questions that have been asked a god damn million times already

i cked out the stickies but they wasn't in depth as to the intake itself..

so if im not mistaken i can just get a 'cone air filter' and replace it? w/o the ram intake?

No need to include JC in the conversation. He has nothing to do with a "ram intake".

Im not trying to step on any toe's but the only "idiot" question is the one that isn't asked. He's new, I'm new we need to know where to post such questions....

If you think about it, if you put a cone filter on the other end of the MAF. then you are just sucking hot air from the engine bay. If you look at the factory set up it sucks air from the inlet on top of the radiator. A CAI is placed where the filter is away from the heat of the engine. The set up that I have uses a long mid pipe and places the filter in the fender. My husband had to cut a 3.5" hole under the battery tray. We noticed a noticable gain, and it is alot louder......just my $.02

any pics?? interesting..
maybe i'll just leave it stock..


any probs w/ heavy rain? and i mean heavy?? i am planning to get some cheapo knock offs from ebay just to play around.

I can take pic's tomorrow and PM you with them...

I live on the west coast of Florida we get lots of rain and with the hurricanes this past year I didn't have any problems....

wow.. okie plese if u can...

i read somewhere that the CAI for the maxi's don't go that deep even if some flooding... i will see and decide after pics... i dont' wanan do drastic things..

thank you again.

i know im new here but i would like to help by giving people reading this thread, like myself, the correct meaning of the term ram air, please learn what something is before you call it "ricer", i was about to say much worse things about the above statement, but chose not to hoping i dont start any arguments on here

"ram air" is a technique used by car makers to add hp in the same way a turbo does, by compressing air. a ram air system brings the air intake to the front of the car, where air will be pushed into the intake by the fact that the car is moving forward, the faster you go, the more air is pushed in, creating higher air pressure in the throttle body, therefore making a larger and more powerful "bang" which creates more hp.

Ram air is used on many cars, incuding mid 80's firebirds and camaro's, and was thus used before the term "ricer" even existed. It is also something that can potentialy help any car's performance at higher speeds, now if a ram air system would be a better setup than the maxima's stock air intake is something i dont know, thus why i joined this forum trying to learn about maxima's

just sayin thanks tjb, cuz i know im new at this stuff and you certainly made things clear for me

intake = waste of money....but I did it anyway. They all do the same thing....so next time you here,"What intake should I get?"..just say, "Get the pretty one."

I think it's funny the cars you mentioned are also in this article as they spell out why RAM AIR IS A MYTH!

http://www.vetteguru.com/ramair/

It doesn't work at car speeds. It's a lie. It sells more cars but doesn't add a damned thing to performance...but someone will always believe

Too bad tjb is 100% wrong.

......... so now how clear are you on things?

very informative article.

"Select one of the two types of intakes, warm air, or cold air. Beyond that its just about looks." (-from the website)
I sure am glad I picked cold air over ram air...

That does make sense though, when analyzed in terms of in-depth physics.

intakes make noise and look pretty. yay

very informative article indeed, obvoisly the writer of that artice is more knowledgeable on this subject than i am, and ive also never read that article until now, so thank you 2k2kev for going out of your way to prove me wrong, now if you had gone out of your way to try and answer the question at hand then this tread would be quite a bit shorter and to the piont, so ram air is a myth, i apologize for saying things that arent true, however i replied to the question with the best of my knowledge, not knocking it off as "ricer" and leaving it at that,

my reason for replying to this thread was because nobody hoestly answered the question in a clear and informative way, so i answered it to the best of my ability, and hope that more of you would do the same

why do people put the year of their car in the title of the thread? it won't make a difference as long as its a 4th gen...

I've answered the question in the original post.... I've answered it about 182 times just like other people who've been around for a while. The original poster could have found his answer if he read the FAQs, read some threads or basically just hung out for a day looking at thread titles.

Thanks for playing, we have wonderful parting gifts backstage.

Actually there is a small difference in the intake temp sensor design between the 95/96 and the 97-99s, but that's about it. Just thought I'd let you know...

thanks, now i know something new... it doesn't matter though does it? all intakes on ebay are 95-99 so i guess they all fit despite the temp sensor right?