Did your own work..........or Not?

[Paonessa]

i think the average person is aware of their capabiliteis and limitations, if you don't think you can do it why risk the well-being of your car?

[Street Reeper]

I wonder how many people on here talking about doing their own mods bought a midpipe. Talk about easy and saving money.

Here's how to make an intake

http://www.drwebdesign.com/mymaxima/upperintake.html

I made ports to run both vacume hoses BTW.

[zeff789]

Wow, that's awesome, I think I'm going to make one of those, nice directions and details on everything

[MaxPayne]

Before you go ahead and build your own intake, let me explain a few differences between a professional intake and the "Home Depot" intake.

The most significant difference here is the CV joint boot they use to connect the midpipe to the throttle body housing. See all those ribs? It may be nice and convenient to use this, but the problem is the airflow will become extremely turbulent across this section and will rob your car of power at higher RPMs.

This intake that this guy built does not increase your engine's performance, and specifically states so at the bottom of the page. So, this mod is more or less a "noisy engine" mod that just makes your car sound louder.

Basicly a Rice Mod. Zero Performance Gains if not any losses.

[zeff789]

Oh...:bandit: :eshooter: :badass:

[un4gvnbb]

The best i can tell you is try it out. If you mess something up it can always be fixed. Now im not telling anyone to "try" to change a Cam shaft or timing belt if they've never had any experiance, but putting in a new radio or installing an intake, things like that aren't hard and if you have the manual, tools, and maybe a few friends who know their shit, you'll get a feel for it pretty quickly. Soon you can try more difficult stuff. Give it a shot, at least then no one can say you never tried.



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[Danielsan]

I am the guy who made that pipe and I think you have made a couple of wrong assumptions.

- it does make power more than stock, I dont have the dynos to prove it, but other name brands do. I just stated on my site that it doesnt seem make a big difference when you remove the resonator and you already have an intake.

- the flex joint or cv boot is not as turbulent as you would think, once the pipe is made it is actually almost touching the throttle body, therefore bypassing the flex section. It just holds it there without buying a coupling adapter. Kind of like a sleeve.
Another point, thought not as strong, is that it is the same part used by Nissan, so it cant be all that horribly bad.

I wouldnt have said anything but you called it Rice , and that just hurt man it just hurt ...Now you must lose to my max and look at the altezzas when I pass you:flash:

[zeff789]

no disrespect but altezza's are kinda rice lol...but i like your mod and i think its real cool, thanks for doin all the huntin for the parts and makin it so we can do the s ame

[Danielsan]

yeah, they are rice. I just put that in there for effect

[Paonessa]

the only reason to buy a set of altezza tail lights for a maxima is to make the skylinye light conversion. otherwise they are UGLY

[MaxPayne]

Originally posted by Danielsan
I am the guy who made that pipe and I think you have made a couple of wrong assumptions.

- it does make power more than stock, I dont have the dynos to prove it, but other name brands do. I just stated on my site that it doesnt seem make a big difference when you remove the resonator and you already have an intake.

- the flex joint or cv boot is not as turbulent as you would think, once the pipe is made it is actually almost touching the throttle body, therefore bypassing the flex section. It just holds it there without buying a coupling adapter. Kind of like a sleeve.
Another point, thought not as strong, is that it is the same part used by Nissan, so it cant be all that horribly bad.

I wouldnt have said anything but you called it Rice , and that just hurt man it just hurt ...Now you must lose to my max and look at the altezzas when I pass you:flash:

Well, if you were sure to make the intake as smooth as possible, then more power to ya, and your Max. I made a Home Depot intake out of PVC pipe for my 90 Sentra and I think all it did was make it louder. It was fun and I had nothing better to do at the time, but I definitely wasn't winning any races with that thing.

I'm going to put up the $$ for a CAI though.

Countdown 5 days till my Max is in my hands again.