Has anyone that has an injen intake blown their MAF on a 2K2? I really want an intake mostly for the growl, but I don't want another blown MAF

 

i have an 00 with an injen intake. my intake went on in september, my MAF blew in february. i replaced it, and then it went out again 2 weeks ago, so since im broke i opted to put my stock airbox back in, since i made the switch back to stock my cars been running like new. not the slightest bit of hesitation at all so i think my problems are solved.

 

yeah...a lot of people have been having maf problems with the cold air intakes; I decided to go with the JWT pop charger, not as much in terms of performance gains, but you do get the growl and haven't had any blown mafs since i've had it on.

 

30k with Injen and no problems....

 

What filters are you people running?

 

Mine is the "factory" cone filter that came with the injen intake....

 

Are you kidding? You're supposed to replace that POS with an A'PEXi or K&N.

 

I have an A'PEXI in the garage. Since I have not been racing it, I've let it go.

 

I'll buy your A'PEXi. It's brand new? What model # is it?

 

Doing a complete tuneup within the next few weeks and I'll be installing it then. I let the cheap-o get screwed over this winter instead of the good one

 

I blew my MAF the day I installed the Injen. I'm now running the 2k1 MAF from DaveB with my old thermistor. Car has been running awesome with the intake so far.

 

Do you think the 03 would suffer the same problems with the MAF sensor? Ive been looking at Injen intakes, but I have been hesitant because I dont want to have to replace the sensor again and again.

 

Injen on for 22,000 of my car's 33,000 miles. No MAF problems.

rbrowm81, the 2003's have a different MAF part than the 2002's. It seems less prone to failure. In fact my 2002 (which was a late build) came with a 2003 MAF. Maybe that's why I haven't had any issues.

 

If you want the growl do the GAB....

 

People with all intakes, Injen, PR, Berk, Frankencar, stock, have blown MAFs at one time or another... its really the MAFs that are weak... its a touch and go thing... I've used a K&N drop in filter since I got the car until I replaced it with my Berk about 7k miles ago and haven't blown the MAF yet (40500 miles now)... its just a matter of time....

 

with any intake ur maf has a shot of blowing, maf's r a piece of shi't so if ur worried about it dont get it

 

I havent had any problems with my MAF-Injen CAI combo. Stay tuned though....

 

What are the issues like with an intake and rainy weather? Is it a big problem?

 

Don't drive through a river, lake, or puddle over 1.5' in depth and you will be fine.

 

...in other words no playing U-boat commander with the Maxima.

 

You sank my battleship

 

Just recently installed the injen intake, 2nd day the Service Engine Soon (SES) came on and I took it to autozone and said that theere's a leak in the Evap Emission Control that why the SES light came on, my question is do I need to change anything to stop this supposely leak?????????for example muffler, exhaust. any suggestion, some people said it might be MAF sensor but car passes 2500 rpm.... SOS from a NEWBIE... and what does excatly the Y pipe do, my first car hooking up???

 

What is the code? Nevermind don't tell me, find it and look what it stands for (exactly) in the ECU code forum.

 

check out the stickys for your y-pipe..


with my injen i havent had a problem, recently its kinda slow but i think i just need to clean out my filter. hopefully thats just it

 

thanx guys went to the Owens site and they have way that u can reset the ecu,, took a while to do it but it was done so the SES light went out for now and by the how much a Y- pipe run about???? I call Cattman and they were talking about $350 and $10 for shipping are there any other brand that works the same but cheaper???

 

What year is your car? Stillen, Budget, and Warpspeed also make y-pipes for the 5/5.5th Gens... but some 5.5 Gen owners who got Warpspeeds had fitment issues, while 5th Gen guys seem to be fine with em. Budget used to be good too, but Soonr1 recently had some issues with his y-pipe on his AE. Cattman seems to have the least trouble in terms of y-pipe fitment and quality.

I have a Cattman y-pipe on my 02 and have had no problems...

 

how much did u spend on your ypipe puppet?

 

Bought Fezzik's y-pipe with 1000 miles on it when he got his Cattman headers... $270...

 

I have the MAX 02 auto, what does the Y-pipe do for the car??? and do u have to automatically put an exhaust or its not required??

 

Time for ya to do some homework...

https://maxima.org/faq-4-Performance.html

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=36867

And also do a search... there are many y-pipe threads out there...

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=368622

 

Thanx Puppetmaster,those thread are very informative, doing my research now, finding out new stuff...

 

and anyone knows anything about the bypas for the intake so that if you happen to go over a puddle it will prevent water from entering the engine, I just brought it for $50 and about to install it..