I installed the factory intake back in today, replacing my Frankencar/Apexi intake. Went with a regular paper filter too.
What an improvement!!! My low end is back. The car is definately more responsive than before. No more lag when I hit the gas. There is a slight bit of lag, but that's because I have an auto. The intake upgrade only added to the slow reaction of the slush box. And no noise. I can actually hear my exhaust now. Which I'm begining to realize, is more pleasant than the obnoxious intake roar. I totally forgot about how quiet these cars are. I don't feel the supposed 2-5 hp loss. Like I said, because of the low end returning, it feels like I gained a few horses. But that's just my *** telling me that. Either way, it feels alot better all around.


If you drive an auto, get rid of your noisy intakes. It does nothing for us.

 

sucks being an auto huh?

 

Welcome to 3 years ago

 

I actually like the auto. For normal driving, it's great. It's just a bit slow when you're trying to go fast. But hopefully my next mod, the DR, will fix that, or at least help a bit. I'm a multi-tasker. Smoke cigs, drink coffee, play with radio, and fidget with other crap when I drive. The auto is very friendly to a person like me.

 

DR won't do jack for speed ...

 

Shifting at full line pressure will help out with the time I believe, or did I interpret what I read on Jime's site the wrong way?

 

Depends on HP levels, but that subject too has been : to death.

 

good to hear. I want to put mine back in, but ma dukes tossed it thinking I didnt need it. Time to hit the junkyards.

 

It's not the stock airbox that brought the low-end punch back. It's the resonator. I'd use the Apexi filter with the stock resonator.

 

word, i got a sidekick and i'm always typing on that (on the org most of the time).

nope..cant say i feel that way. I actually always thought it added a little bit of luxury to have it shift automatically.

 

The Apexi filter is a bit dirty now. And Apexi's are throw aways, can't clean it and use it again. I don't think I want to spend $110+ for another filter anyways. I like the quietness as well. If I stick the cone back on, I'll get that annoying noise again.

 

Well, good to see that you pay attention to the road.

 

Yea, so imagine if i had to shift too??? Just be happy we live in diff states.

 

I use the JWT+ Stock resonator. But the engine jsut feels smoother with the entire stock airbox on.

 

Quick question. Anyone ever notice that the snorkel that's attached to the bottom part of the air box does not mount flush against the box? There's a gap.

 

whats a jwt(And wahts a resonator?).

 

talking to me?

 

No WaY !! get out :



If you need to ask these questions, you need to do some more research and hang out on the forums more, do some and self educate yourself

 

okay, thanks for nothing.
i dont see whats so hard about just giving me an answer.
i "hang out" on the forums alot, and i've seen those words or abreviations used many times, of coarse i never dared ask because i knew someone would have to play mr.hardass.

 

JWT = Jim Wolf Technology Intake, similar to the Stillen, POP style, comes with Al (Aluminum) venturi stack MAF (Mass Air Flow Meter) adapter.

Resonator = The plastic box that sits in between the TB (Throttle Body) and MAF (see above acronym reference)

Look up Helmholtz type resonators

Not a hard ***, just surprised that you don't know.

 

alright, thank you.

 

Ive got the stock intake from my 96 still, didnt switch the cai out before selling it. Let me know if you are interested.

 

ohhh kaaayyy. So does that mean you noticed that? Clarify yourself.

 

It was a hint of sarcasm ....

 

I see...sorry man, I'm a bit slow today. I think I inhaled a bit too much paint fumes when I painted my valve cover today. Anyways, the snorkel thing, I guess I just never noticed that before when I first removed it to install a after market intake. It just doesn't look right you know? That thing just hanging off like that.

 

I'm still new around here so please give me a lil slack.. But are you guys saying that its not worth doing a CAI/(any intake) at all. I'm also drive'n an AUTO. I would love a cheap way to go a lil faster thats why I ask.

 

It depends on what "worth it" means to you. Some people deem 2hp worth it, some 12, but if you want ~ 6-8whp, then a POP is the way to go. But keep in mind, it will be louder (cool at first, but annoying after a while) and you might lose a small amount of low end, no matter what set-up you choose, and it's more pronounced on an automatic (the low end loss) The stock intake is the best sounding, smoothest, and quite possible gives the best power curve.

A cheap way to go faster, put your car on a diet, get a y-pipe.

I've had many set-ups, and I typically come back to either stock or a simple POP, (Stillen/JWT) set-up.

 

O.K.--so what is everyone doing about piping the N20 into their TB. My current setup is the JWT pop and large diameter silicone tubing used on semi's with the fuel and N20 into that. Seems it would be hard to put the injection nozzles into the accordion type resonator tube. Just lookin to see if anyone else in this discussion has done so and how it turned out?

 

You're oppost to make the decision for him

 

Why don't you post in the N2O forums


Doh! Got me, I'm slacking these days

 

don't you mean the stock midpipe? the resonator sits below the battery...

i guess they're both resonators technically...

 

For some reason I wanna call BS on that statement and say that you don't even know what a valve cover is.

 

I call it the valve cover cause it was in a sticky. But technically, it's the coil pack cover. Happy?

 

No, he means resonator. Don't correct people who know more about the subject than you.

 

Not really. I call my maxima a honda accord cause that's what a Wal mart lady in Rockford, IL called it while looking at it out the window trying to sell me a tire called it. Happy?

 

Message #6, on this page http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=258184
This is what I went by. Sounded good to me. So I will call it a valve cover, as of today. And every time that part is mentioned in a thread I see, I will refer to it as a valve cover. I hope that doesn't bother you. Anyways, it was pretty cool painting my own valve cover today. The painted valve cover really accents my engine bay. I took alot of time and care prepping that valve cover. I think the valve cover turned out really great. That valve cover mod was very easy to do. I took that valve cover off for the first time this week. Never touched that valve cover before. I changed my spark plugs this week and it required me to take the valve cover off. I didn't know the valve cover was just a piece of plastic. I guess the material the valve cover is made of can withstand the heat from the engine. All in all, it was a valve coverific time. Valve cover valve cover valve cover.

 

It won't bother me, it'll just make you look stupid.

Also post #6 doesn't show what is meant by valve cover.

 

I believe the question was "What mods can I do relatively cheap and easily?".
It doesn't take a genius to figure out. You're not as bright as you act. And if calling that part a valve cover makes me look stupid....
I love my valve cover that I painted today!!! It's the best valve cover on this planet! I couldn't be happier with the way that valve cover paint job came out. I wonder how many people on this org painted their valve covers? People should post some of their painted valve cover pics here. I would love to see their valve cover paint schemes. Hell! everyone should paint their valve cover like I painted my valve cover today. Valve cover painting rocks!

 

Hmm, let's see, it only takes a few minutes to take off the spark plug cover, it only takes a couple minutes more to take off the valve cover. For you to say I'm not as bright as I act is sort of ironic don't you think? You're arguing about you being wrong when you know you are wrong. Where do I come off as not bright in this argument?
You see where you wrote RELATIVELY EASY? Well, guess what, it's relatively easy to put on a y-pipe, it's relatively easy to do a suspension swap. No matter what you say there is no proof he meant the spark plug cover and there is no proof he didn't. However since WE KNOW you painted the spark plug cover this argument will never sway in your favor.

 

Deal with it man. It's a "valve cover" to me. And I got that term from a sticky, for new people. So it's kinda obvious that the actual valve cover being removed and painted was not what the author had in mind. You can keep trying to disprove that theory, but it's a lost cause. You know I'm right. What do you know it alls always tell new people? "read the stickies". That's where you point the people that have no clue on what to do. So expecting a person like that to attempt a valve cover removal seems a bit far fetched. A hundred people will read that thread and come to the same conclusion I did. Removing the coil pack cover (what I like to affectionately call a valve cover) and painting it.