The air comes right through the front bumper to the filter. It sits up pretty high so no debries or water can hit it. You would have to go into like a 2ft puddle of water to get some on your filter. Then you would have water in your cabin and your feet would get wet. The filter sits in a great position where alot of cold air comes in and its blocked in all directions from debries and water.

 

Just ordered....had one of these on my '97. Loved it. In fact I need to sell it. I'll post that in the classifieds some time.

 

i just ordered the silver intake for my car.
i love early christmas presents

 

Brian Cats called me, to inform me that silver (my original choice) was sold out for 00/01's, and that several other colors were available, including black (talk about customer service-the owner of Cattman Performance calls me to tell me this!!!! Very impressive!!)

 

I will be ordering mine now.

 

I just ordered mine, and I will also be ordering a Y-pipe very soon as well.

 

So have you guys started recieving your orders yet? Any idea on how many silver 02/03 are left? Thanks

 

they are shipping them out today.

 

As soon as I can get my CC sorted i'll be ordering mine too.
But I'm gonna be up for a looooong wait, mine has to come all the way out to Australia.

Its gonna be worth it though.

 

Last time I checked there were still some available for your year Maxima in silver.

 

I'm In! Well, thanks to my girl, I'm in. This is perfect timing, since my B-day is coming up in a few weeks. Happy B-day to me. Silver is out for the '00, right? Damn! I guess I'm just going to have to paint mine now. Any suggestions on what color? I've got an white pearl Max....what about white pearl for the intake piping? Or is that too gay? I'm not feeling the red,blue, or definitely not yellow. I'm going to order black if still available, but don't want to keep it that way. Help me out with some suggestions. Nismomaxgtr, thanks in advance for the deals.

 

Someone said they had black for 00-01s...

 

I have a 2k and they said they didnt have any black for our model. Silver was out, so i had to get red. Cant wait.

 

there is no silver or black for the 2000/2001. i have a 2001, and i purchased a blue one, which is the color of my car. how difficult would it be to paint it silver?

 

get it dipped in chrome

 

i ordered mine on 11-10 before 12 so mine got shipped yesterday...just wanted to thank nismomaxgtr for this deal and cattman

 

how much should it cost to dip it in chrome?

 

Actualy, this requires some clarification - NismoMaximaGTR is generally correct - the only thing you need to worry about is deep water, not rain or snow or even splashing water (which combined with heavy rain can cause hydrolock with a STOCK intake).

BUT, depending on how much the car is lowered, you want to avoid any water more than 10-12" deep because the filter will start to get submerged at around 14-16" deep. This is really quite deep, and it will be coming in over the door sills at that depth - most of us have never driven in water this deep, but be forewarned, this is a very absolute limitation.

If you live in an area that has this kind of street flooding in some seasons of the year, just pull the lower tube, and mount the filter to the MAF adapter until the wet season is over.

We've sold this intake version (the Cattman COMBO intake) for years, and its as good as any underhood filter available, and better than most. [Its just like the Berk, except that we developed it years before they did.] If your environment makes this kind of intake a better system, buy the sale CAI anyway, the price is cheap enough that its still a great deal, even if you don't use the lower tube.

Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance

 

Find someone in your area that chromes wheels and see what it would cost to run your parts through a batch with theirs. Chroming is typically quite expensive, its an electrolytic process and an environmental nightmare, so there are far fewers companies around that do this now than there used to be - they can basically name their own price, and do.

BCC

 

Two quick explanations...

Black has always been an exclusive colour for the intakes that Place Racing made for Cattman. Since all of the group deal intakes are coming from PR's inventory (not ours) they only had one kit in each of the Maxima CAIs (it takes 6 different CAI kits to cover 89-03 Maximas). We (Cattman Performance) do have black CAIs, but we paid more for them than the GD price for the other ones, so we can't afford to include them.

I have a bunch of 95/ and 97-99 Cattman All-Black CAIs (they're extra cool because we use black clamps too, which sets them apart from the PR versions), and will sell them for $180 + shipping instead of $225 but this is entirely separate from the GD on the Place Racing CAIs.

Regarding the cleaner kits, two points need to be made. First, DO NOT use an oil-based K&N solution on the Monsterflow filters, it will ruin them instantly. There's nothing I can recommend other than the silicone-based Monsterflow tackifier spray, which gets lightly misted over the filter after cleaning and drying. It is just as critical to the filtration properties as the oil on a K&N.

Second, sorry about the mixup on the cleaner kit price. When the group deal prices were calculated, I thought that Place Racing had these on hand and could just stick them in the CAI boxes when they ship from CA - this could be done for $20, shipped. Turns out they don't have any tackifier spray, so I'm shipping them separately from Tucson. Worse yet, I can't find them at the price I used to so I'm paying a lot more per can. So, our cost for the kit is almost $20 and if I didn't charge the extra $5 we'd be losing money after paying for shipping.

So, look at it this way, the cleaning kit's still $20, but I have to charge $5 for shipping.

Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance

 

Finally, for those who are considering painting their CAIs. One advantage of powdercoat is that it never flakes off.

So, its fine to paint the outside of the tubes if you can find something to stick to the powdercoat, but don't do it on the inside.

BCC

 

I wanted to know how much the CAI is for my 92 Sentra SE-R and for my 96 Maxima SE? thanks, I am in Ca 95120

 

please read the thread before posting things like that. your answer can be found on the first post.

 

so I right in saying its $129 for each car sentra or maxima? I just want to clarify, thats all!!!!!!

 

Yes its $129.00 for any of the cars for the CAI's in yellow, blue or red. And its $135.00 for the vivid silver. But, if you pay by paypal or through the 800#, then add $5.00 for credit card transactions. Thanks.
Greg

 

i included an additional 20.00 for the cleaner solution. does this mean i have to throw another 5.00 to cover the shipping cost of this item as well?

 

can we get tracking #'s on these?

 

Thank you for clarifying a little more the rain/snow/water floods issue. Where I work there is only one street (dead end) to get there and because is down the hill always gets flooded everytime rains hard, it can go all the way up to 4 feet (48 inches) at the lowest point. Most of the people wait 2, 3 or 4 hours until water goes down to 2 feet (24 inches) to start crossing the whole block. About 5 people loose their cars every year including a couple UPS trucks. That's why I asked a couple times about this. I really want to get it but have that problem. I am still thinking about it; may just use it as a short ram but the other longer pipe will be wasted. Do you sell only the short ram intake to save a little money? and is the silver pipe polished or just painted?
Is it really 11/30 the deadline to buy them?

 

Are there any Silver ones left for a '92 SE???

 

For any of you installing your CAI yourself, I would highly recommend this also. 1. Clean out your Throttle Body. 2. Take out the stock Intake Resonator. You might see some gains from that too. Heres some links. http://www.4dsc.com/articles/drivetr..._removal.shtml & Here's for the TB Cleaning http://www.geocities.com/bracecraig/maxima/tb/tb.html Have Fun!!!

 

What's the purpose of the intake resonator? Are there any smog implications?

 

I'll check on that for you and get back to you.

 

Almost 100% sure. I don't think many silver ones have been sold. I check back with you.

 

Sweet!, I'll be Money Ordering mine Tonight. How long do you think till I get it???

 

How long does the shipping take?

 

Patients, Les. Patients.

 

Aye, That is something that I lack.
Actually, there are several kids that get out of school and walk by the house. I just want to be on the look out when it arrives. I live close to Bob Jones HS.

 

Ok. I read all the posts and I looked at the install links. I just want to make sure that on my 2k2 SE that the fuse block bolted to the fender next to the batter will fit back into the stock location when the install is complete... If that's not an issue, I'm in .. it will be my first mod .. I've already had the car for 9 WHOLE DAYS and havent done anything to it yet!! ... Im also looking at Tok Blues vs. Illuminas and what springs ... descisions descisions ...

 

Go with the Illuminas. You'd probably regret it later if you went the HP route. Plus there's a group deal going on right now for those also. Can't beat the adjustability! As far as springs, just depends on how low you want to go. Tein S-Tech gives you a nice 2.2" drop in the front and a 1.6" drop in the rear. I got those and I love the height. Some will say that it's too low....but you decide. If you can't decide, just go to the group deal section and buy the D2 coilovers. You got the adjustability of the dampening and you can go as low or high as you want!

 

Just bought one of these for my 4th gen, Silver version, cant wait.