I had a 2000 and am selling my intake off of it. I had somebody with a 2003 interested in buying it.....will it fit? Stillen's website lists a different part number so I was assuming it wouldn't work.

 

yes and no. An '03 can use it, but they'll have to plug the two small vacuum hose pipes, since the 3.5 only has a single vac hose, not three like the 3.0.

 

I don't recall doing anything with vacuum hose pipes on mine....it just bolted right up to the intake mainfold.

 

you bolted your intake to your intake manifold?

i swapped my berk from my 00 to my 02...had to plug the two side holes on the tube

 

see where that large hose connects to the tube?
see the black tape?
thats coverering the extra holes (i broke the nipples off)

 

My bad, not right to the manifold....to the MAF housing......the Stealin consists of nothing more than the filter and velocity stack.

 

Sorry, I'm stupid.

Which tube are you talking about? The MAF housing?

 

the stillen one is garbage since it doesnt have the midpipe. it will work

 

diregard...its different for the stillen.

i meant the midpipe between the MAF housing and throttle body

 

That mid-pipe isnt there on the Stillen. You sayin just get rid of the Stillen and buy what??
I'm in the same situation as RichardO here...

 

If we are talking about the Stillen intake, there is nothing different. Stillen doesn't offer a midpipe, and that is the only place where the intake (post TB) is different.

The most important thing in this situation is MAF bolt pattern, in which case it will match up (00-03).

 

yes... everyone knows that the stillen offers no mid-pipe. Some didnt like it and i asked what brand they do like. Yes the bolt pattern is the same but the other mounting bracket does not line up.

 

My Stillen bracket looks just like sooner's berk does in post #5. Works just fine too.

 

Your bracket looks the same b/c your intake is for a 5.5 gen, correcT? The question was a 5 gen. Stillen installed on a 5.5 gen. The 00-01 has a different bracket.

 

bracket is the same

 

I've used a 5th gen Stillen intake in my 5.5gen. I've used a 5th gen berk midpipe and bracket with a Stillen intake. I've used a 5th gen stock airbox (not midpipe) in my 5.5 gen.

 

ONLY difference is the vacuum hoses

 

So then this means that the Stillen is identical for both 5 and 5.5 gens? Wow, 200-2003 Maximas can use the same intake of it is a Stillen unit?

 

great info...so which one is it

 

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