I'm thinking of buying a cold air intake of of ebay and just replacing the filter with a K&N. Is it worth doing it? For those who have done this same thing, is there a noticatle difference over the stock intake?

 

No difference, 2-3 hp. I know I can't feel that, can you? Not worth any kind of money unless you just want it for the noise and looks. It depends on what you want out of it but performance-wise, its not worth it. You'll get better performance with the stock intake + K&N panel filter. There's more info in the stickies.

 

get the cai but use it as a short ram

 

GET full cold air, get place racing , you WILL feel it. Its a real cold air intake not fake like injen.

 

Intake manufacturers tend to over-exaggerate gains whether its CAI or HAI. Here are some facts about them.

 

Personally, no the CAI is not worth the time or the money. Power gains, no its not worth it either. Looks department you may like it better, sound wise maybe you will too. Still the best overall intake is a plain and simple Stillen/JWT POP charger.

 

i decided not to put in a CAI, its not really going to give me that much hp, if i want more hp im gonna get a y-pipe, but im not racing here so im gonna wait...

 

IIRC there was a dyno posted not too long ago that showed a power loss using the JWT compared to stock.

 

hmmm if those who really want a CAI that bad, just get one off of ebay. same setup as place racing at a fraction of the cost. just replace filter. plus, they say theres really no big improvement except sound. well IMHO, i don't think you'll be able to notice performance wise diff between the CAI and stock airbox other than sound of course. but yeh, $50 total is not bad at all for an intake.

 

link is broken

 

Yea, probably b/c this thread is from 2005 lol

 

 

:matt93se:

 

My Stillen SRI sounds great. Performance, dunno, had it installed on the car when I bought it.




EDIT: DAMN SERIOUS ANSWERS ARE NO MORE VALID

 

 

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200...?MaximaIntakes

 

so cai for the max is pretty much worthless ?

 

Just do it for the sound, ull feel like ur going faster because of it lol

 

Your sig is WAY too big. Crop it down some.

 

I wdnt say its worthless. I have had 3 maximas. Each time i have modded the intake and exhaust. I always did the SRI intake first then the exhaust last. Each time the car wd pull harder up top.

On the third max, after much debate here on the org, i was determined to not mod the car or at least leave the stock intake alone. So a wk passes that i owned the car and i was all itchy with the mod bug lol so the exhaust got modded. The car was breathing better and running harder in the high rpms, but from my experience with my first two maximas, i knew modding the intake wd make the car pull even harder! So after much soul searching, I modded the intake. And u know what, it does pull harder up top. Sounds killer too.

 

A 4th gen doesn not pull hard up top. The stock intake manifold BLOWS.

 

I guess he means almost up top because it starts to fall flat after 5k. A Y pipe makes a things a little better though. The Mevi was nice when it worked. I know there was always a suspicion that the switch wouldn't get a signal while in drive but it did while in park. When it didn't work, it was worse than stock.

 

Holy hello old bump

 

lol

 

Ghetto airbox mod FTW, its free and it makes a cool noise

but seriously a 6 year old thread?

 

Actually, it sucks.

 

I've recently installed a Injen CAI and it feels like I've lost power on low end. *Sigh* I wish I found this tread 3 weeks ago.

 

this has been debated an debated its all bout personal preference i have had stock short ram intake (sri) and am currently running cold air intake (cai) the noise is nice do u feel gains i dont know with sri i felt i it responded better on 3k plus but the cai felt better on take off but in the end its all bout what u as a person want/like