I bet everyone has heard the Poor Mans CAI. Well you heard this a thousand times but i hacked mine today. It sounds F-ing great. If anyones needs a video clip please let me know. Moral of the story hack your box.


Click here to watch Hacked-CAI

 

yeah im interested in a vid, i havent heard a hacked box yet and wanted to try it on mine. but bought a stillen intake instead of possibly messing mine up.

 

Hold up i will put a video together give me like 30 min. Can someone host it. Thanks.

 

ya i can host...email it to me at sunnymistry52@hotmail.com

ps make sure its <10mb

 

Ok i will send you the file in an 1 hour. At nine central time.

 

The hacked air box mod sounds bangin'! I got some audio clips if anyone is interested.

 

I can make one as well, but not only does my camera's video quality suck, it only records for 0:59, so yeah.. Then again, it's not a mini dv camcorder, it's a digital camera.

 

is there a write-up to this? im interest in doing this. so this wont mess anything up?
tell me more.

 

It'll mess up your stock airbox, hence the hacking part If you ever decide to go back to stock, you'll either have to cover up the holes, or just buy another stock airbox somewhere.

Some information can be found here http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....4&page=2&pp=30 in post #38

also http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=181899
and http://maxima.cardomain.com/memberpage/370660/3

 

i will look into this, thanks man

 

Had to get some gas so I made a crappy video. Don't know how the quality is, about to watch it now. I'll post it in a few.

EDIT: Eh, it's alright. I'll post it anyway. It's JUST over 10MB...let's see if putfile.com will take it. Otherwise, someone will have to host it.

EDIT2: Yay, they took it. Here it is: http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=IM000605 Leave some feedback (it sucked, it's alright, etc.)

 

Moment of truth.... In 20 min someone host it. I am making the video as i speak.

 

sounds nice, what set up do you ahve?

 

madmvd, that sounded good, do you have anything else performance wise?
could i just cut holes on the two sides and be done? whats the best route?

 

waiting...

 

I cut a large, wide hole on the bottom portion of the airbox (the side facing the battery), and replaced that hideous stock paper air filter with a K&N panel filter. Everything else is stock. Thanks for the feedback guys

 

good, thats about the way im gonna go. i will be doing this tomorrow. so far for performance, i will have a hacked air box and a sp2 exhaust.

 

Click here to watch Hacked-CAI


Its thru Putfile.com you need to click on the link, no save as. Its 1 min long, inside the maxima and drive by. Its about 2MB so be little patient. Please let me know what you think.

 

Nice

 

" flippen sweet" i like the sound. so is this 'mod' as good as a real cold air intake?

 

Some say it's the only way to go, meaning better than CAI.

 

Yes it is. Your not gonna notice improvement, but its there. Don't hold it against me, i read it in How to Do's.

 

nice...but i am still not sure if i want to do this....because i have a K&N filter and it sounds just like your but its not hacked???

 

To each their own. Don't do it because others are doing it. Research it, and decide whether or not the possible gains are worth your time, and in this case, work. I must disagree with those who have said they did not feel a difference. The second I put everything back together and went for a drive, I felt the "kick in the pants". I would personally not go back to stock.

 

I have a K&N filter to. Go to a junkyard and buu the buttom piece of the air box. Hack that and put yours aside for later. Thats what i did. Or buy it from someone on the org.

 

I did feel the difference really. I already have a Stillen y-pipe. I would have problably felt the diffrence if i didn't have the y-pipe. Thats just me.

 

Hacked AB is next on my list for sure.

 

AB=AirBag???

NO don't do that, its too ricy

 

ahhahaaha

 

This is old news but I'm glad you gave the hacked airbox a shot before paying quadriple and more for an intake with the same result. You get the intake sound w/o having an intake. Now save that money and double it for a suspension.

*edit*

Let me clarify something.....

Hacked airbox IS NOT CAI. The fact that you are still drawing hot air within the engine compartment thru that cut-out you made on the side of the airbox doesn't make it CAI whatsoever. However, this is a lot better than HAI when it comes to drawing hot air. You can't compare this with a true CAI like PR (not Injen) because CAI is for improving low end which our maximas already have. HAI improves top end but with that negative effects of hot air entering the intake and it gets worse during summer which will bog the engine down. The hacked AB mod is another form of HAI because they both draw in hot air. All this info are in the stickies.

I'd say go a little further than just cutting the airbox, run a 3" tube that will somehow draw air from outside the car inward. You can use a CAI tube, cut the hole at the usual spot for the tube to go thru and leave that end open to catch cooler air from below the front bumper. You'd need to cut a bigger hole on the airbox. If that's not possible, you can use silicon reducers and go from 3 to 2" then thru the cutout in the airbox. With this, you just turned your HAI setup into a CAI but w/o the negative effects of a typical CAI, namely loss of top end.

 

does the stillen hi-flow intake sound something like the video clips people posted?

 

The only negative thing i could think about is that, the intake starts to really roar above 3000RMS other than thats i am happy with the "ghetto" mod. It sounds normal regular driving, but when you get on it, it sounds great. So overall it was worth the 30 min i spent. Some people used a dremel, i used a small gas torch with a knife, heated the knife up, smooth cuts. Worked for me.

 

sweet... WILL BE DOING SOON!!!

 

buy a stillen short ram! it sounds awsome and i noticed more pull...i think.
anyways...if youre doing this to make your car sound like it's enhanced...then you should watch out for the flamers. after they had at me
Jj

 

any gains or just for sound

 

What's the difference between doing the hacked airbox and just taking the stock intake snorkel off? I did that and it sounds great (attached the air temp sensor near the intake pipe). Does the extra foot or so away from the engine make a difference in air temperature?

 

The snorkel helps the intake (a little) to get cooler air from outside as the car moves forward. Cooler dense air = more HP. Remove the snorkel and your intake will suck in HOT air around the engine which hinders performance. I would leave the snorkel in if I were you. Leaving the snorkel in and hacking the airbox will give you the sound but hot air will enter the intake but not as bad as removing the snorkel. The marketting ploy of HAI & hybrid intake makers will say that more air is better. Sure it is, but not necessarily beneficial if the intake is sucking in more HOT air.

 

if you think about it it doesnt seem like it would matter that much case the intake tubes get really hot no matter what . but i guess the cooler air would help aid that to cool

 

The hybrid setup comes with an aluminum midpipe, metal that conducts heat. Plastic is not much of a conductor compared to metal. Ever tried touching any part of the stock intake (they're all plastic) while the engine is really hot? Ever touched any metallic object in the engine compartment while the engine is really hot? Big difference right?

 

I'm going to do the GAB in the summer for a change from my CAI. I'll see if I can notice a difference. I probably won't get as much hesitation on the throttle as I do now.