I dont know these cars but is it a bad idea if I ran my car with an open intake box? Just open with the filter still inside of course.. a friend opened it for me and i drove around and its loud as hell, put it back on afterwards. So is it bad? Can anything happen?

 

why would you want to?

 

Just for a sound -_- id do a short ram if I really wanted the sound but I was just curious if there were any bad outcomes besides heat and less gas mileage

 

Stop and put it back to stock! Have fun and enjoy?

 

Without the cover you would get unfiltered air into the combustion chamber. The cover presses and locks the filter into place so 100% of the air getting into the engine will be filtered. Run without the cover and shorten the engine life considerably.

 

Anyways, after this I was running low on fuel.. had around 13 miles to empty and then the car had a sudden loss of power. I was in 2nd gear going around 40-50mph then it went to 4th gear by itself and lost power. I let off the gas when this happened and let the car roll for a minute but then pressing back on the throttle the car would respond by just slowing down, you'd feel a halting when pressing on gas like the engine was braking itself. Finally, the car stalled out when it came to a stop. I put more gas inside but the car would start for a second with a rough idle and shut right off.

 

I had it towed to the Nissan dealer luckily 2 minutes away.. but they were closed. They open at 8am.. what a big dump I got on myself today.

 

Big dump? Wait until you get the service bill.

 

Any ideas of what could of happened? I don't hear any sounds that come from the engine.. Im guessing something might of happened along vacuum, gas.. Idk those are just my guesses.

 

Ill be okay if its doesn't go over 1500..

 

please valve train be okay.. God.

 

I'd be more worried about burning out the Cats!

 

does and what does warrantee cover? I have a 2012 with 35k

 

Throw gas in the car, put back together the intake, check vacuum lines, MAF connection and start.

It seems it is something you did.

 

it was the outcome of something I did I'm figuring. I checked all the vacuum lines by the intake area, everything is all good but it just wont stay running :/

 

I got to smoke a 350z vert prior to my ghetto intake move.. Heh.

 

I really wonder sometimes...

 

Phewwww.. was just the mass air flow sensor and its almost 600$ with tax lmao..

 

Ouch ^^ ... was it worth it? And how'd they go about charging YOU this amount?

This couldn't have been an irregular occurrence that was covered by anything? Doesn't seem right...

 

you could have bought an awesome cold air system for half that price. And better sound too.

 

Agreed with 2010maxSV I bought a k&n short ram about 3 weeks ago ive noticed some minor gains but it brings some throaty sound to the engine. $238 from autoanything.com

 

Im guessing though with a short ram the gas mileage decreases.. loss of low end power but gains while reaching higher engine speed (Im guessing this because of my reason starting this thread, I noticed much more power after 4k-ish RPM and gas mileage would increase but at a cruise I was getting less gas mileage and low end power. Speaking of intakes, does anyone have opinions for Purolator PureONE filter vs OEM? I was told by a Nissan tech "its not worth paying for an OEM air filter unless you are one of those people that just want OEM everything, for 14$ you get the same quality as OEM except the Purolator is blue with a mesh on the top side"... opinions?

 

Oh yea, didn't need a MAF sensor anymore, unplugged it and plugged back and she was fine

 

Exactly as post #14 stated.

 

yea I seen that, its too bad I had the car towed literally 1 minute away to the dealer for 90$ and carless at the house... bollocks!!

 

funny my brain wasn't functioning 100% where it happened because state of panic, unplugging the MAF went through my mind very briefly..

 

surprisingly my mpg stayed the same a whopping 21.6 lol