I was at Performance Nissan getting some spark plugs and I was checking out some of the tricked out 350Zs and noticed one had a carbon fiber intake tube. I thought it looked great, so there began my search for a cf intake. I could have bought just a cf tube because the Z tube is about the exact same shape as out tube - it has a slight bend and is about the same length.

But I was on ebay and notice the Mishimoto intake. It not only has the cf tube, it has a cf heat shield.

Install was . . um, interesting. I had to use the Stillen elbow and my smaller battery was needed to accomodate the fairly large heat shield. This intake is not for everybody since you need the Stillen elbow, or at least have an elbow made. Also, I dont think the shield will fit with an OEM-size battery.

Anyway, here are pics:

Before:



After:

 

looks sick.. but now the elbow looks out of place

 

Damn, do you always have mods on your mind?

Ya paint the bend black and get a black coupler.

 

Overall it looks very good!

 

O! You and your CF.


nice job.

 

Paint the elbow black. I wonder if it would work with the Berk elbow? Hmmm.. I've been looking for a heat shield and that one looks sick.

 

+1 on black elbow..

mark it looks great man!!! We need to meet up so soon so i can see the newest mods..

nice work man!

 

okay I have to ask:

One picture you have a red radiator hose and red battery top and then the rest of the pics have black hose and yellow battery top

Looks cool tho

 

LOL... wow didnt see that hahaha...

Dues?

 

why not relocate the air filter away from the engine bay where all the heat is?
Or put the battery in the trunk and get a cold air box like ARC or something in that nature.
And i suggest you put some clamps on the red coupler....

 

The different colored battery is because I did some enbgine detailing before the Toys 4 Tots car show. i painted the battery and changed the radiator hose to a Samco red silicone hose.

Spooled: The carbon fiber shield keeps all the heat away from the air filter. Also, the factory air scoop, which I modified to scoop in more air, blows air directly on to the air filter. I could relcoated the battery, and I may do that in the future, especially if I do more racing.

 

that looks really nice in there

 

That looks great Mark!!!

 

That looks sick man. Great job. How much did it end up running you?

BTW, have you had any troubles having a smaller battery vs. the twice as large OEM batt?

 

Thanks guys!!

I think the intake was about $400 or so. I know its pricey but its carbon fiber.

The smaller battery has been great!!

 

looks awesome, any sound clips?

 

It looks pretty schweeeeeeeet. Dues your crazy for CF man.

 

Looks good Deus nicely done ,these carbon items are similar to the one Ive had on my 330ci...

 

I like the look of it but I think the air this intake sucks in is even hotter than what you'd get with stock/your previous setup.

 

looks good. not $400 good, but good regardless. i agree on painting it as it really stands out like a sore thumb. nice mod!

 

Not sure how you figure. GThe scoop blows cold air directly onto the air filter and the air filter is surround by carbon fiber

 

i think he was saying you should have done a fenderwall intake for the 'coldest' air.

 

$400 for an intake? wow...

 

cf freak!!! LOL haha I bet you wish that you cars body is all cf too, just like that NSX I always see at car shows. I think its the science of speed nsx.

 

two things i just wanted to add:

1 you could have had a shop wrap your pipe in cf for UNDER $400. anything else you want in cf a shop can wrap for you also trunk roof etc...

2 $400 on an air intake? should have put to towards fi imo...

either way it still looks good...just paint it..

 

What scoop? i don't see anything on the pics. The firewall before was more effective than this setup, me thinks.

 

I think the scoop can be seen in the second picture of the first post

 

^^^ My understanding is that his battery is yellow, thus an engine bay without any scoops.

 

Unless the battery was painted? It does say 7/07 on both.

 

Very nice set-up.

 

Torgus... you talking about something like this ?

http://dragonplate.com/


markski... i like it man.. 400 bucks is a lot but it looks sick and you like it !!!!

 

http://www.yourcobalt.com/forums/ins...bon-fiber.html
http://www.cftype.com/carbon_fiber/?...llery&galId=55
http://jalopnik.com/cars/sema/how-to...ber-326342.php
http://diyautomods.com/2008/03/03/hello-world/



you can do it yourself or take it to a shop to get wrapped. they can do basically any part of your car for the most part. seeing as the cf intake is for looks only i don't see any reason not to just get it wrapped vs buying a 'real' cf intake. the weight savings are minimal at best.

i'm not trying to take anything away from deus but i would have gone about it differently. that's all

 

Dues,

we should meet up and try to wrap our trunks in CF..

 

u ever wonder if ur overdoing it? it looks cool dont get me wrong but in a couple month i wouldnt be surprised if u had speed racer buttons on ur steering wheel spitting out oil and ninja stars from the back of ur car

 

a little off topic lol.. but ... mark here is your next mod...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CARBO...Q5fAccessories

let me know how they work..

 

Dang, u just spoiled my next secret project

 

I looked online for cf materials and i researched the process. The problem is producing a product that looks good. It sounds easy to do, but making stuff out of cf and fg is NOT that easy. Its a LOT of work. Yes, the Mishi intake cost a lot, but its a beautiful piece of work. The expense is the heat shield. I found cf intake tubes on fleabay for $114. But the cf heat shield is really gorgeous and I was willing to pay more for it because it added more pizzazz to the engine compartment. To make a tube wrapped in cf would be a LOT of work and you run the risk of it not turning out smooth and gorgeous. CF and fg materials are really messy too. Its a balance. I think some of the veneer material may be good for covering things like roofs, trunks and the like. If anyone wants to have a day where we buy some veneer and cover certain parts of the car, let me know.

 

HAHA you never saw my major fail at making something with carbon fiber.....ugh what a mess....the resin never hardened right...its sitting in my storage unit till maybe some day i get back to it and fix it, but I'm gonna buy another lip and paint it black for now

 

go back to the dyno

performance > looks

 

This intake most likely has no better performance than what was on it which was a Stillen intake. I'll stipulate to that.