Ok, so I have one more question about this thing. My intake finally got here today and after looking at it I do have one question. There's an almost football shaped port close to the throttle body on the underside of the intake. What goes there?

 

Sounds like the EGR. Take a pic and post it.

 

Thats what I was thinking it was, as I saw no other place to mount the EGR. Other than the device to activate the VAIS, and the new EGR tube, are there any other parts I will need before I get knee-deep in the installation?

 

Stolen from a stephenmax post...

Parts from VQ30DE-K:
1. UIM
2. LIM
3. fuel rail and injectors
4. injector harness connectors
5. rear valve cover
6. rear ignition coils
7. egr guide tube
8. RPM switch or VAFC to control the VI.
9. IACV remote mounting plate
10. TB adapter plate, unless you use the DE-K TB
11. gaskets

 

You can drill the LIM. You can use the 4th gen fuel injectors and rail. You can just get an egr delete plate. You can adjust the idle manually instead of using the IACV with the screw on the TB. You can grind down the back driverside coil pack boss and the one beside it instead of getting new valve covers.

This is just if your a cheapass like me.

 

Yeah, thats what I had intended on doing. I got a complete upper off eBay for $260 that included the TB, IACV, and a functional VIAS. I'm just trying to track down all the other parts that I'm gunna need for a smooth installation. The local Nissan dealer has the 00 EGR tube for $40 or something like that, and as far as I know that should be the only other part that I need as long as I can figure out where all those damn vacuum lines go.

 

make sure you have all your bolts ready....that was one of my problems

 

Would you suggest going to Nissan to get them, or just drill and tap to use whatever bolt I can find at Lowe's or a hardware store or something?

 

for the EGR you can get them from lowes....however to get the ones that go through the holes on the upper to hold it on you hvae to go to nissan....im still waiting for nissan to get my last bolt in so i can have peace of mind that its not going anywhere lol. i got the part numbers for them around here somewhere....ill post them up if i find them

 

That would be awesome if you could. One other thing, does the EGR tube bolt directly onto the plenum or is there some plate to mount it to?

 

Yeah you messed up a lot. You had me running all over city to get **** for you car.

 

I remember when I did my VI, my friends musta wasted like 10 gallons of gas those 2 days going out gettin gparts that were missing.. lolers...

 

I had an 00fed spec dek at my disposal.

 

lucky bastid. lol

edit: tranny gets here on monday or tuesday, woot

 

haha, too bad I'm going in on my own on this one. It definately oughta be a trip...

 

Sweet let me know how it goes.

Paint and wheels comming soon

Maybe a month or two and my 5speed swap comes too. If paint doesnt get done, it might be a SC/5speed swap or VQ35/5speed swap

 

it should have a triangular plate already on it with the holes for the bolts on the sides. It bolts directly onto the upper plenum on the bottom behind the TB.

 

dude, it was a long 5 days....lol, im still recovering

 

I had to do it myself and thats why it took me so long to do it. Everytime I need to go out and get something I couldn't because nobody was there to take me. My advise to you is buy a lot of extra hoses, clamps,J B weld stick, tees.

 

What kind, lsd or non?

 

Well, I ordered the bolts and the EGR tube today. We'll see if it all comes in as planned....on a side note I'm going to run at our only 1/4 mile track on the 14th to see how it does on motor/nitrous, which should be interesting as well.

 

good luck with everything!

 

i hope you didnt may 40 dolllars for an egr guide tube... DaveB sells them for much less... thats where i got mine...

still waiting to install my vi.. its too cold here in chicago lol

 

hi where can i get an iacv adapter plate?

 

My ast question is concerning the hybridization of the 00 IACV and TPS onto my 99. Are the plug-ins the same? I mean, the TPS won't matter as much since I have to use my 99 unit anyway, but what about the IACV? Same plug?

 

Kind of....there is a only minor cutting to be done. That is what I am doing with my 97. I plugged my 4th gen IACV plug into the 00 IACV. It works great meaning it does the high idle for cold starts and the rpms do not jump around on me or stall.

 

Cool, thats one less thing to have to get concerned about. I went to the Nissan dealer today to pick up my bolts and EGR tube and they ordered me the wrong tube, so I'm considering putting the intake on and just plugging the EGR off until they can get it in....not the greatest thing to do, but I won't have another weekend to put it on for awhile, so...

 

im telling you.. buy the egr guide tube through daveb... cheap fast shipping.. dont waste your money!

 

im telling you.. buy the egr guide tube through daveb... cheap fast shipping.. dont waste your money!

 

well, as it turns out, the tube that she quoted me the proce for at the dealer that was $40 was the wrong tube, hence my question. The right tube was $18 and that sounded reasonable enough, but would I have any drivability problems if I install the intake and just delete the EGR until the tube comes in?

 

I started the installation today, and about 9 hours later I'm still not finished, but this is just day one. I'll have some pics to post tomorrow. Other than having a time with the two bolts on the ends, it wasn't all that bad. The only thing that sucked was having to cut out the vacuum/fuel branch thats under the TB. With the IACV on there it wouldn't clear the branch and I couldn't move it, so I took it out. I'll have pics to explain all this later

 

Ok, somebody lend me an idea here...


I got the intake put on today, got all the vacuum lines, fuel lines, and coolant lines hooked up and in the right places. No vacuum leaks that I know of, but the car idles up and down, even at operating temperature. I used the 5th gen TB, IACV, disconnected the 99 EGR guide tube. I'm not sure if the modification I did to the 4th gen harness worked using the 5th gen IACV, but it seems to be working just fine. Any ideas? Also, if you rev it to about 3000 it acts normal, but if you go higher than that, it comes back to idle very very very slowly, like the TB is stuck.

 

Well I noticed when I fixed a broken hose on the egr-bpt valve (looks like a UFO) which connects to the egr-valve it corrected my idle problem. Before the idle would jump around after I let off the gas, then it would finally settle down around 600 rpms. Sometimes it would flux so much the car would die, so maybe the egr not being connected is messing up your idle. Or you might have the 4th gen IACV harness in the wrong way, you cand try flip it around (if you know what I mean by that).

 

I thought about the EGR valve and IACV. The TPS could be out of adjustment too. I figured if I left the EGR connected I could just cut the tube to the intake and not cause any idling problems. I hope the 5th gen IACV works with the 4th plug, but that will ahve to wait til tomorrow

 

Also, I was only able to use 4 bolts on the intake, and after I helicoiled the middle two I couldnt really torque down on those bolts, but I dunno...

 

It does because I am using it right now with no problems anymore (after a year of messing around with everything). I will try and get a pic of my plug and IACV

 

I've removed my EGR system without any idle issues.
The idle isn't consistent but never flucuates more than 75RPM either direction. That's mainly due to my non-functioning IACV

 

So does your not die out anymore?

 

Well, I have to give it about 2% throttle on startup but other than that it runs like a scalded pig.

 

Thats weird because on my friend's 96 SE (the one I just did the swap on) he has to give a little gas on startups if it has been sitting for over 5 hours. Mines starts up like a champ and idles like a champ now . Just need to replace those O2s this week.