Well bad news fellas. I just got back from my fitting at fujita R&D, and it looks like the 7th gen will be getting a shortie. There is absolutely no room for a cold air to get through the engine bay. If someone wants to spend the money to get it made custom its possible, but the pipe would have to start out 3 1/4" (new throttle body size), then have a flat spot of no bigger than 2- 2.5" in order to squeeze between the battery and the tranny, then go back up to 3" since no one makes a 3 1/4" filter (at least not that I know of), and the rep said Fujita will not spend the money it would take to produce that type of custom intake for mass production.

So in this case we are getting an intake that will be approximately 14-18" long that starts 3 1/4" and ends 3 1/2" (in order to use Fuita's existing 3.5" filter), and will have a heat shield on the tranny side of the filter. On top of that the shop didnt carry 3 1/4" pipe to fabricate the intake, so I gotta go back in 1-2 weeks to get the intake fab'd and installed, and pre & post dyno runs.

 

So they will or will not be producing a CAI?

It sounds like they will, just a short unit? Similar to Stillen's unit?

 

Move the battery to the trunk.

Would that help? Is there cold air portal there?

 

^ Too much work, just use the SRI, not a big difference since they're using the heat shield.

 

How much of a lose of power really would we be feeling, not much. Every other company is in the same boat. The only company willing to go the extra mile with a CAI would be the CAI I would not be able afford/not want to spend that much money on.

 

This really disappoints me. Not due to power, as CAI's and SR's both do absolutely crap for power, but the sound on a true CAI just sounds so much better to me.

I'm going to wait it out and see if maybe injen makes one, if not, then I'll leave it stock.

The heatsoak that I went through on my 2005 max with the berk intake was to much for me to handle again.

 

to answer someones question, No they will not be making a cai for the 09 max. And thats the biggest part of a cai for me is the sound that comes with it, I had a fujita on my 6th gen and I loved the sound. Hopefully the shortie will add a lil sumtin sumtin. And yes it will have a heat shield at least, and the stock air director will still be functional from the front grill, so that will help.

 

how can a shortie function as a cold air? Is it really the same thing?

 

Well it can in by using the factory tube under the hood which takes the air from the front of the car and hookes into w.e. shield is surrounding the intake filter. Check out stillens and you'll see what i'm talking about.]

 

I Like it!!! Well heres the plan guys, I just talked to the R&D guy at Fujita and explained the cold air shortie concept and sent him some pics of stillens, hes gonna see if Fujita likes the idea, and he'll let me know

Maybe theres a way to even improve it a little more, he mentioned maybe putting the breather down behind the engine compartment where it can get much cooler air. we checked the temps after running the car and found a nice little area that was significantly cooler. I'll update asap.

 

Ya they had a really good idea to go ahead with that type of set up. Although I am sure that it is lisenced to them in some way so i would suggest changing it up in some way. What do you mean by breather?

 

bump ....Did any of you guys here anything yet about any type of release date or something?

 

Agreed... Any news on this?

 

it seems like the release of the fujita intake died out or something, no ones talking about it....Suprising since this name is highly used in previous generation maximas.

 

sorry for the delay, well it seems the prototype was a rude awakening in how poorly some people do custom work, so the prototype is scrapped and we are starting from scratch again this week, although this time they are bringin in the guy that designed the 6th gen cai, and hes has got some great ideas for this one which fyi shows how dedicated Fujita is, to producing the perfect intake for the 7th gen, they were adamant abot the lack of quality and performance in the first prototype. They stay tuned Ill update again when somethin else happens.

Oh, and there may be a new twist on our intake this year, I don't wanna spoil it so I'll let yall wonder for a while, until the details are finalized

Intil next time, same bat time, same bat channel.

 

thanks for the update and please keep us posted

 

I'm happy with Stillen intake, pricey but its great.

 

WOW that doesn't inspire any confidence....

 

you got that right

 

LOL..........

the word on the street is, the designer of the 6th gen fujita CAI left fujita to start his own business. I believe it was Takeda.....

So it wouldnt surprise me they asked him to come and develop this mod for the 7th gen.

 

thats pretty much what happened. I met the guy and he looked at the first prototype with disgust lol, long story short they worked out their Issues and hes comin back to design this intake. Basically it was Intake Designer (performance) against Intake producer and sales (profit) and they couldnt find a happy medium, thats why he left the company originally.

And just so you know, the first prototype was made by a shop in san diego that was selected by an outsourced consultant hired by Fujita, it wasnt made by Fujita's design team. Have faith, this intake will be worth the wait.

 

Sounds like they don't have a design team except "Takeda" they don't do anything else except produce Cold Air Intakes correct? We shall see I'm not so concerned since you really can't dyno this Maxima so the HP is all subjective to the butt dyno... I could probably just pull my filter at the drag strip and get the same results. How much engineering does this really require it's just a tube with a filter on the end.

 

hoow long more will the wait be, im starting to get impaitence and probably end up getting the stillen intake

 

Well we will be starting on the new intake this week, and a lil inside info... Fujita is dippin their hands in more than just the intake industry. More products will be poppin up in the near future.

 

Nice I can't wait to see this one... Sounds like they are going to be doing some good stuff for our car.

 

could you give us a hint abot what kinda products will be poppin up ?

 

They already make a shorty....check ebay

 

I e-mailed them and this is what they sent back:

Mace,

It is in our final stage of testing on this unit.

Thank you,
Sunny Sengvilay

 

Nice! I'm patiently waiting for this.

 

Me too. I hate being patient tho. haha. I wish they would give us a hint, or a picture or something.

 

If you think about it, it just gives us more to time to save up more mod money. lol

 

 

Now this looks promising: http://forums.maxima.org/6th-generat...ake-works.html - excellent read.

Make sure you read about the Fujita filter and how horrible it is... This r2c CAI not only seems to be engineered really well but it's gorgeous...

 

For the 7th gen tho? I skimmed thru the thread but only saw 6th gen.

 

hehe... Right-o on the crappy cotton Fujita filter. If anyone is in Chicago with a 7th Gen, PM me... I can point you in the right direction with the R2c guys...

Not sure how you'd dyno a CVT though... they'd really want some numbers to go by.

 

Well if they don't come out with an intake kit, it looks like you can just buy a filter and put it on the end of the intake you happen to have (fujita, takeda, stillen, etc). Given, the filter is still like 70 bucks by itself.

 

Well to name a couple things, they are in talks of headers and exhaust.... and they're even considering turbos or superchargers and more, but I dont want to give it all away just yet, nothing is written in stone.

 

Well Sunny is the man. He's the one im workin with on this prototype, however, the shortie that was made at first, turned out to be ****ty work by the shop that made it, so now we are starting from scratch, but it will be good I guarantee it, be patient, and save up cuz there could be a new edition that will cost a bit more... for the sake of having fun, Ill just call it a high performance version

 

hmmmmm turbos and superchargers? i highly doubt that due to the stupid cvts limited ability to handle hp and torque
That should be interesting, i cant wait to see the high performance version! Can you give us an est. of when there gonna be releasing these intakes?

 

+1 on that. I'm wondering how long before we can at least see a picture of what they are planning. Now with this R2C talk I'm wondering if they will come out with something, or if using their filter with the fujita tube would be a good idea.