After a whole bunch of horrible, horrible problems (ie, missing parts, really badly dented thermostat, acouple of other things), we've almost got this thing installed. We're setting up the tubing & CAI & whatnot, but seeing as how my buddy's installing it at his shop, and I live an hour away from him, travelling over to his place to show him where I *think* the intake air temperature sensor is, seems kind of silly to me.

Anyone have some pictures I can send to him to show him where it is? Or can describe well enough where to look for it so he can find it? Cause he's not having much luck with it.

 

do you mean the MAF sensor? it is the part of your stock intake with the wire screen and plug attached.

 

Heheh, no, MAF sensor is part of the tubing. This is the sensor that everyone zip-ties, or leaves hanging near the filter if their intake (like mine) doesn't have a hole for it. It's fairly small, and I don't have a picture of where it should be, or what it's connected to.



#4. Where's the other end of the wire, if one end is just hanging around somewhere?

 

mine was connected about 1/2 way down the "ram air" tube on the stock intake

 

I have a 97 also. If you look down in the end of the hood air scoop (roughly underneath the maf) it should be plugged in the side of the tube.

 

That was the actual sensor though right? The FSM looks like it says it's connected to the wires on the MAF sensor, but I don't remember it being there.

 

If you follow the air temp sensor wires back to the wiring harness I think they connect to the harness at the same place as the MAF wires, but they aren't directly connected.

The air temperature sensor looks like the tip of a pencil, with a rubber o-ring around it.

This is the only picture I could find of it. Its circled at the bottom right.

http://www.ericj.org/maxima/img/air_temp_sensor.jpg

 

here is mine...bottom right hand

 

There are two sensor that gets confused. I think one is called the ambient temp sensor which should have a hole to plug in the tubing of the SC. The other one is called an air temp sensor which is a very skinny looking tube. On a CAI for example, there are three connections, one of them is a very skinny/thin tube extension where you suppose to plug the air temp sensor tube in. In any case, I still haven't found a solution for mine. I just zip tied it and left it dangling. Problem is by doing this my CEL is on all the time. Mardisgrasmax showed me how his did his, but it didn't work for me, the CEL still came back on after I cleard the code. So now I'm running with the CEL on.

 

Thanks a lot guys .. I managed him afew pictures of it from the FSM & Haynes manual pages at ptatohed's site. ejj's picture however, was phenominal, just a little bit late Thanks for the help, Buddy got all the piping setup tonight, should be running by tommorow, and I should post more pics up later of the full setup. Thanks again!