Hi Daniel...

Over the months, I've seen you be very useful to many on the board, and now it's my turn.

Here's the story...

I bought a used STILLEN Intake for my car from my neighbor. He had it on his '99 Maxima SE, but then he sold it, so I bought it from him for my '97 Maxima SE. I installed the intake today, and after installing it, I ran the car for a minute or two to see how loud it was. While the car was running, I noticed that there was hole in the intake (which I later found out was for some Ambient Temperature Sensor, which my car either doesn't have, or I can't find). Upon noticing this empty hole (which I originally thought was supposed to be there), I immediately shut the car off and came to the board for assistance. I don not know if my check engine light was on at this time or not.

Later today, I needed to run some errands, so I removed the STILLEN Intake and put the stock airbox back in, because I wasn't sure if the setup was right. It was at this time I noticed that my check engine light was on. I needed to run the errands so I drove the car easily (not too far). I didn't do any hard accelerating or anything like that. I drove the car to a couple of stores (again, not too far) and the check engine light remained on for the duration of my errands.

I really don't know what I should do here. I'd like to figure out the code and reset the check engine light myself so I don't have to take the car to a shop, but I really don't know how to go about doing that. I hope I didn't seriously mess up my car, because the last thing I want are a whole mess of problems.

Any light you could shed on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Nick

 

The little hole on the Intake is there for your air temp sensor. On my 95 my air temp sensor is on my Stock air box{this may be the case for you}, on my 98 the air temp sensor is in big bleack cold air tube thingy that connects to the oem air box assembly. Anyways what you need to loof for is a little sensor on your oem air box, if you find it you must remove it and install it in the hole on the Stillen Intake Filter. If your sensor is on the back air tube thingy that means that you just have to plug the hole on the intake with some duct tape or something. Go out and look and let me know your findings.

While I am on a role here I should mention that Dan B. knows a great deal about cars but he is not involved in aftermarket parts{except a FSTB}, so point being you should not singal him out for a ?? on a mod related problem. Right Dan?

 

Bill99gxe, our esteemed moderator, did a lot of work to create the Sticky "ECU Diagnostic Trouble Codes." The first post in that thread points to a Web page which tells how to do a Diagnostic Trouble Code readout. Many of the DTCs are explained in other posts in that thread. Please do a DTC readout and we can go from there.

 

forget all those, best thing to do is goto local car shop and have it a check up on it. play it safe.

 

Ok...

I got two error codes:

0102 - Mass Air Flow Sensor
0304 - Knock Sensor

Where do I go from here?

Thanks,
-Nick

 

Somehow, the problem fixed itself.

I redid the procedure to check for the code again to make sure I wasn't missing something. When I redid it, I got error 0505 - which according to bill99gxe means "All Clear/No Error Detected".

Then, I reset the ECU and started the car again and the Check Engine Light wasn't on.

Many thanks to emax and Daniel B. You guys were a great help to me. Those stickys have been there for so long that I kind of ignore them. I didn't know there were new ones added.

Thanks again!
-Nick

 

Originally posted by Daniel B. Martin
And I thought I was just evil......



Nick,

You should be fine now. Just keep an eye on it and see if the light returns....

 

Thanks Bill!

-Nick