I just ordered a Nismo Dual Cold Air Intake for my 2008 Nismo Z. I was talking to some guy at mitsubishi with my friends who claims to be a certified Nissan tech and he was saying how I am going to have to get my car tuned after getting the intake installed otherwise my car with loose power. Is this true? Is there a maintenance to these intakes that I should know about?

 

Im pretty sure you dont need tuning at all with just intakes. someone correct me if im wrong

 

You will be fine, guy is an idiot. If anything, clean and oil your filters when needed.

 

just reset ur ECU.. u dun need to tune anything

 

Certified Nissan Tech at Mitsubishi, enough said..

 

Mitsu owners tend to forget, on NA cars the afr doesn't go way out of wack like it it does on a FI car with an intake.

 

yeah i remember putting an intake on my stock 06 evo and i couldnt hit boost at all... the car drove like crap, actually it barely drove lol, it made the craziest sound in the world though. lol

 

He's actually right you'll probably lose power, and a tune would be the only way you'd see gains with that mod.

 

i always like to read the comments from other guys who have gone FI in these cases. hee hee..
OP..none of us would have done it if we could get any real power from the VQ in a better fashion, ie intakes.. or no tune.


OP, read this.. very good stuff to know. Its a classic atricle.
http://www.importtuner.com/tech/impp...s/viewall.html



Different intakes affect airlfow across the stock MAF in odd ways across different RPM points. You will most likely gain lots of sound, loose just the lightest bit of feelable low end by way of butt dyno.. and maybe make 2-5 hp at 5500 rpm on the fwy...and possibly lose a mpg... i know i certainly did. Not just once either.. i swapped my intake back and forth w the stock airbox every year seasonally.. gets hot here, intakes made it worse. it was clockwork on the power n mpg thing.


Are you FORCED to tune? NO.. and thats what most ppl are replying to you about.
Should you? of course. Even if your car is stock, you should get a tune program.

You are most likely buying the intake for the sound.. it will be fine, just get a JWT tho.. the rest are weak imho.. search, make the decision for yourself on that one, but its the best one out and its 110 bucks.

 

Thank you for the awesome reply! With a tune, is there anyway that that can damage anything? this mitsubishi guy said that it can hurt my engine and all of this stuff. He got me freaked out :got owned: anyway, I called Nissan today and talked to my friend there who has been working there for 20 years and he said that he had one on my his truck and never got a tune and that he has never had anyone bring back a nismo dual intake with problems with loosing power. Kinda confused here, sorry for being a noob

 

You don't need a tune for reliability/protection, but you do if you want any gains (with or without intake)... that's all. Great post bmccann101

 

lmao

Just reset your ECU, and you'll be fine. The car will relearn itself! With tuning if you ever go that far you'll see that the car with mods gain horsepower just fine by resetting the ECU. A tune just smoothing out that new power along the curve!

 

just intake=waste of money

but no u will be fine to drive it without getting a tune even though u will get no gains out of it

 

Back in the day FunctionTuned did a back to back dyno and the cai lost power