I have considered going back to the stock airbox and doing OSCAI as you may have read in another thread, but I wanted to give my butt dyno a chance to evaluate the Frankencar intake after having the Berk installed for a while and hearing all this positive feedback on Frankencar on the orgy. So, I am going to swap the Frankencar ram with the resonator and see how I likey-likey. I'll let everybody know my impressions of switching between Berk and Frankencar on this thread after I've done the swap, so subscribe to it if you care.

I may do a swap between all three and give my impressions if I feel like doing all that PIA work on Sunday.

Nice doing business with you Steve.

 

Yeah, I am considering FrankenCar intake myself for my 2002 Maxima.
After reading all the threads about, it supposed to give about 10hp and 10lbs of torque. So it looks like a good investment.

It will be good to some comparisons on it.

Thanks.

 

you'll love it the sound is

 

Why would you go from berk to oscai again? Curious myself, cuz i just got berk awhile ago and god it brought back my love of the car... sound and butt dyno feel both love. just looking for your reasons. and frankencar might be nice just cuz of the resonator removal but price is a huge factor for me...

 

Regarding price, keep in mind that you already have the MAF adapter and filter from Berk. To switch to FC, all you need is the short ram and couplers. Don't purchase the entire intake.

As for switching...I'm not sure that the power gain from Berk is worth the sound. I use this car for business a lot (non-car guys in the car with me) and that whole "image is everything" axiom deserves observation when it comes to making money. The sound can be a negative sometimes, as much as I hate to say it.

In addition, I think there is a little merit to that common thought that the POP filters like Berk will prove to cause noticeable torque loss in the warmer, summer weather.

I was going to go to OSCAI to get the sound down and to protect my torque this summer. I thought I might as well give FC a chance. If FC makes my butt dyno needle go off the charts, then I am thinking of working on some sort of OOGLIE cold-air box for the filter. We'll see.