With all the new guys in the fourm on a daily basis, many of us and our posts are getting slammed by questions like "what does the VI do?", "what's it cost?", what's it look like?", "why not run it at 2500rpms instead of 5000rpms?", "who sells it?", etc. This is a pretty important mod and probably is the biggest thing to happen to Maximas since the intro of the supercharger. For the sake of the new guys who aren't quite experienced enough yet to use the Search Function, I'd like to see a post that links the available sources, general install, dynos, etc for the MEVI. Anyone else agree?

I'd bet Sprint can post links galore on the VI. Probably within 5 minutes of me posting this


Dave

 

Put the info in the 4th gen FAQ.

 

hmm its been more than 5 mins

 

man i just spent 5 mins typing a reply.. but the pic of the VI was over 50 mb and when i hit back i lost everything.. i ain't typing that **** again..

 

Don't you just hate that? Sometimes when I'm typing a reply, then click on submit, I find out it's too long. When I click back, everything is gone! Now if I think my message is too long, I just copy it just in case if it's too long and paste it the message again, but shorten it a bit.

 

I agree, but regarding regarding search usage...well I've been reading this stuff back in the rOaDbEaSt days and I still have some difficulties pulling out threads with the variable intake manifold information. I am not a newbie to this topic, but I can't find some old threads because a lot of you just type "VI". It seems that when it was called MEVI for Middle East Variable Intake those 4 letters were too much for you to type and you guys started with just "VI". You should know that the search function doesn't index anything 2 letters or less.

There were times when I would view a thread and a week later try to look it up to compare info that was brought up recently. I would try "MEVI" and it wouldn't come up. I'll even try "variable" or "intake" or "manifold" in the search query box and those threads still won't come up. If someone replies in a particular thread I was looking for happened to include "MEVI", or "Variable", or etc. etc. then I might be lucky enough to find it without manually going through 8 pages of "Skyline's A$$!" and "Do you think Gen IIs will look good on my car"-type threads.

If its too much of a hassle to type 2 extra letters to label the manifold then I will again suggest to refer them as VIM, for Variable Intake Manifold. Its not only shorter than "MEVI", it will be indexed by the search engine. Also it is more "correct". Sure some Maxima enthusiast in the Middle East pointed out the manifold differences, but it is available in the UK, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, etc. I'm trying to get mine from Taiwan. When I receive it should I call it "TVI" for Taiwan Variable Intake? I don't care either way. We just need uniformity and to stick with one abbreviation that is more than 2 letters long to make the search engine more effective.

 

I don't use ME very much because of my views concerning that region of the world Plus, like you said, it's not just a Middle East spec-manifold. Is it a JDM part? I'd like to say JDM-VI.


Dave

 

dude i typed this **** again and my notes server crashed.. i came back... and i am going again.. man.. i give up

 

Suggestions:

1) Drop the ME as well. How about the "imported variable intake?"

2) Put this in the 4 gen forum. The 5 gen's already have this design.

3) Somebody buy me one!

 

4) your sig isn't working

 

5) Sprintmax is a postwhore

 

6) your mother is a *****

 

eww! yeah didnt you go see her last night?

 

no that was bill99gxe.. i was home sleeping

 

 

 

go blow out some more pipes or whatever it is you do all day (other than postwhoring)

 

you have 3 useless post in this thread.. and you are calling someone a post *****?

 

I also agree, that is why I try and put Variable Intake in all of my post..now this one

but maybe your on to something there

Also putting this into the 4th gen FAQ would be a great idea