Dear Valued Customer,

Unfortunately we are out of Red midpipes right now. We will be sending
more
to the powdercoater tomorrow and hope to have them back by next monday.
We
would like to let you know of this delay and offer a polished midpipe
as an
alternative to avoid the wait. If you would like to wait that is fine
just
let us know so we can get the intake out to you asap.

ok they offered red to you because they were out of polished ones? or is that different from silver?
now they are asking if i want polished when i ordered red....wtf is going on...

I'm assuming they're different midpipes for different generations....

Sorry to ***** up the thread, but if somebody wants a used Frankencar with Apexi and good customer service/fast shipping, look here.
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=250896

Catback exhaust? Can anyone elaborate on what this is, looks like, will do, will sound like?

At least you guys got an e-mail. And of course steve won't answer his cell phone. No suprise.

Holy ****ing **** I got human contact on the first try! They're shipping to me tomorrow! Now I'm
There's a lesson in Customer Management and relations here. Customer satisfaction is 1 part great product and 2 parts service. All I want is somebody to commit to delivering what they promised and not be left here to speculate whether or not I'm getting jacked.

Amen to that brother.

Now hopefully all the parts will be included in your shipment. Wouldn't that be nice?

WooHoo!! I finally got a hold of someone. My intake got shipped, I just received no e-mail. Scott told me that since the intake was shipped two-day air I should probably receive it tomorrow (fri). It this is so, I will pardon the lack of prompt customer service. Just relieving you guys, I know you were worried.

Check the website for the pics. He doesn't have sound clips released yet though.

WOOHOO! My intake should arrive today! God bless the speed of the USPS, 3 days and only $13 to ship... Actually should thank Frankencar for not gouging on the shipping costs, like the $8 I spent to order one little 3oz or whatever it is bottle of touch-up paint from courtesyparts.com

You lucky bastard...

I know I konw.... I just checked the tracking # on their website and it said it had "left their Salinas facility"... so I assume that means its out for delivery today....

Package received.

I'm going to begin the installation shortly and I will post feedback soon. Hopefully, the rest of you guys will get yours today or tomorrow and can slap that bad boy in before Monday. Good luck!

i look down the stairs and there it was just sitting there. I was pumped! I didnt get any instructions with it though... its pretty self explanitory isnt it? I cant wait to put it on!

Maybe someone will do before and after dyno's so we actually know what gains are acheived from this intake. I searched on this and was reading about it all last night and seems there really isn't a concrete number except for what Steve at FC dyno'd...

BTW, you're the luckiest bastard out of all of us, FtNx. You happy lucky bastart.. haha just kidding.

gotta wait till monday for mines to ship(so they say) cuz they are out of red ones

There are instructions on their website. I hope that it's as easy as everyone says it is. I sure don't want to screw something up and tie up my car.

Got mine today at lunch, also no instructions. Called Scott at Frankencar, he said they dont have specific instructions for the '04, but to use the '03 ones instead, and to call back if any problems. I'll do tomorrow morning! Hopefully no problems!

Instructions on the webpage? Can't find them... can someone post a direct link? Or if there's no instructions online, could someone with access to a fax machine and has the instruction sheet with them (for the 2003 I guess, closest to '04) fax them to me? 831-424-3750 Put attention: Chris Austin Thanks!

My wife just called, and my intake just arrived. Don't know if I'll have time this week end to put it on, but I'm excited to get this done.
BTW I had look hard, but I found the instructions.

http://www.frankencar.com/intakes/instructions.htm

Thanks 2k1, I'll hope that's enough to install it...

hey i was just wondering if I received everything for my 2k1 intake... here is what I got:

-1 MAF Adapter
-a red and black coupler
-an all black reducer? (kinda like the coupler)
-4 clamps that are all the same size.. (Ive seen some where there are 2 of one size and 2 of another, maybe that was for another year's model)
-bent piece of metal that goes onto the strut tower
-midpipe (it has a hole right next to the skinny pipe and the skinny pipe has two skinnier pipes coming out of it at the end (I have no idea what those are for?)...is this the correct one for a 2001?)
-KN Filter

is that everything? I didnt get instructions though, or stickers damnit, i wanted the stickers, ah well...

Installed! Definite change in sound, but the ecu is going to have to do some relearnin'... Anyway, good luck. Don't drink too many beers, or you'll turn lincoln logs into the Hubble telescope like I did.

Got my midpipe today!!!!! Thanks frankencar!

Seems pretty sluggish...

lol!are u for real?!so u paid $200 for the sound?now,that doesnt seem right.u sure ur not having any kind of vacuum leaks?try to check your connections again and make sure everything is snug tight.

Got my package in the mail today. Everything was in it . Installed right away...and i must say sweet. I dont even know why i bought the injen b4. Frankencar sounds 10X better and pulls noticably harder. Love the sound. GRRRRAAAWWWWLLLLLLL!!!!!! lol.

i already paid too so 1st post should be updated to 18.

i got the intake today, but mine came with 3 of the bigger 325 dia. clamps and 1 smaller 300 dia. clamp. Is that suppose to be right ? i thought i was suppose to get 2 of each.

Did you guys reset the ecu? I thought that I did, but I may not have done it correctly/long enough. It ran crappy until I shut her down and restarted her, then it runs smooth, but worse pull than stock... Help.

I'm thinking I didn't have the battery disconnected long enough. I did a search and read up on the the correct way to do the resetting for the 2k2+, but I have a 2k. I'm going to just disconnect it again and let her take a time out for more than an hour this time. Any feedback is appreciated...

That's right... If I had a digi cam, I would have put stepwise pictures up.

What about the refund? I didn't see any cash in the box or a credit on my credit card. Anyone get a refund?

I always thought you didn't have to reset the ecu. I thought it just took a few days to learn. Similar with y-pipe, or any thing for that matter. The way I figure it is this: say a sensor goes out or you get a leak in a canister, the ecu ,I don't believe ,picks this up immediately. Its kind of similar to resetting the ecu by the pedals. You can reset that when you get a cel, but after some time of driving the light is going to come back on if you haven't fixed the problem. make sense?

So FtNx, check your connections and give it a few days to pick up.

Okay... I removed and reinstalled the new intake. I tightened the hell out of the clamps this time. I reoriented the MAF. Hopefully, my car will give me back some acceleration in a few days. Basically I've been experiencing growl = loss in power.

The Florida heat probably doesn't help matters; despite the fact that I got to it at 7 a.m., before it was blistering hot.

Yeah, mine came the same way. The smaller clamp goes closest to the throttle.

I just installed the new intake and took her for a spin. First of all, it took waaaayyy more than 30 minutes to install . The intake sounds nice, but I'm not sure how much increase in hp I'm getting. I'll drive it for a couple of days just to let things get to know each other under the hood. But get this, my "SES" light was on before, and now it's gone

I took the battery out of the car (just so that I could reach one of the screws on the old air box) and when I put the battery back in the "SES" light that was on before, was now gone. So I'm guessing that my ECU was reset. The battery was out of the car for about 3 hours.

Someone with a 2004, please help! I've posted a new thread on the main 6th Generation forum. If you have a 2004 and ordered the full-pipe Apexi, help me, I couldn't get it to fit.

any 4th gens received their intakes yet?i wanna know how its working since all i hear in the GD thread right now is purely negative from 5th gen owners.