fsan

Just saw this on Stillen's website.

http://www.stillen.com/product.asp?i...N&model=MAXIMA

Is this the new true CAI? Not very much info on the page. Looks promising. What are your thoughts?

Ghozt

not sure. curious where the cone ends up, mine needed the battery moved

eljoker

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It's just the stillen short ram, the use a universal picture when they are to lazy to snap pics of the real on. And just before any one asks, stillen also sells the k&n intake on their website.

Ghozt

was gonna say, the bends don't look right.

Jodius Tha Warrior

I like how Stillen doesn't have a photo for the part. Trying to trick unaware motor enthusiasts....

Serpent

So Stillen sells their own and also the K&N? Any opinions for whose is better? I just bought my '11 Maxima yesterday, so I'm in the market for upgrading my intake soon. Probably not going to do anything custom, just bolt-on.

PSU09MAXIMA

K&N has a nice deep roar I personally like it

Serpent

Went to O'reilly's today and they wanted $400 for a K&N intake. Passed on that one.

I'm just an indecisive guy I guess. Spent hours reading these forums and I've learned a TON, but still not sure what I want to end up. A couple of easy questions for some of the experts out there to help me with:

Is the shroud/box that surrounds any of the SRI's helpful?

Any difference if the filter is an oiled versus a dry type?

And perhaps most importantly, if everything else is stock will a SRI add a lot of extra cabin noise when just cruising down a freeway, or not very much? I do lots of freeway, don't really care to add too much cabin drone since I'm in my car several hours a day.

Ghozt

i did a little testing on the R2C intake (has a big shroud) and it didn't do a lot to prevent heat soak. you'd mostly be getting an SRI for the noise and slight power gain in upper rev ranges with a low end loss due to heat.

go with a non-oiled filter like Amsoil (Injen uses it for theirs), oiled you have to "re-charge" with oil every now and then and dry u do not

the intake doesn't add too much cabin noise, when you throttle it you will have a louder car but for cruising you wont notice it below 2000 rpms

Serpent

That's exactly the info I was looking for. Sounds like it's a give and take with the high end gain coming at the cost of a low end loss. Is that even worth it? Maybe I DO need to plan a little extra time and build a true CAI--any negative aspect to a CAI besides the time and effort it takes to build/install?

Ghozt

here you can check out the DIY I put together on how I built mine. basically have to relocate the battery to the trunk, secure that nicely, figure out what piping to use based on what short ram you're building it off (easier to use a short ram with the MAF sensor spot on it already than making your own), and bend the metal the horn is mounted on so you can pipe it down into the fender

http://my7thgen.org/f53/how-build-cu...i-off-sri-106/