Love my popcharger...........picked it up with the heat shield and all for about $110. Easy install. Easy maintenence. Money well spent.

 

JWT popcharger is the best bang for the buck.

 

def go for the jwt popcharger - easy to install, maintain, sounds great.

 

Is It Possible In Any Way To Have Both.a Cold Air Intake And A Pop Charger.just A Quick Silly Question?

 

You make baby Jesus cry.

 

Bwwwaahhahahahha!!!

 

I thought popchargers were stalling cars out at high speeds, did they fix this?

 

The answer is yes. The K&N Typhoon Air Intake has a filter at the end of a tube similar to the pop charger. For cold air (the CA in CAI) a tube runs to a scoop located behind the grill.

 

Just ordered my JWT popcharger over the weekend. www.everything350z.net has it for $109.00. Great deal!

 

which is louder, the pop or cold air?

 

Im rockin a cheap *** ebay CAI, IDENTICAL TO THE NISMO one. Works good.

 

Aparently Nissan engineers are incompetent on the intake side of development with all this $ being spent on cold air intakes (that actually suck hot air if it pulls from under the hood)

 

...and what about the one that Nissan installed at the factory? hell, go ebay

 

" Intake

There are basicly two different types of intakes on the market. "Short Ram" and "Cold Air" intakes.

A "Short Ram" intake is a filter on the end of the intake tube that sits inside the engine bay. Generally a shorter distance from the filter into the throttle body.

A "Cold Air" intake locates the air filter outside of the engine bay. It gets its name "Cold Air" from pulling in air from out side of the engine bay not the warm air from inside of the engine bay. Cold Airs do not magically cool off the air, it just brings in cooler air from outside the engine room.

Intakes that fall under the "Short Ram" catagory are: Jim Wolf Technology (JWT) Pop Charger, K&N Typhoon and Fujita intakes.

Intakes that fall under the "Cold Air Intake" catagory are: NISMO, AEM and INJEN.

There are some more intakes then these, but these are the main ones to look for.

The Performance Difference

All of these intakes will give you some kind of gain when installed properly. They all give you a larger more roaring sound from the engine bay at full throttle once above around 4000RPM. With a Short Ram Intake, there is less distance for air to travel from filter to throttle body. This makes for better throttle response and greater power at higher RPM's. Cold Airs do not have as quick of a throttle response but gain a little more in the mid range of the RPM band.

Air is constantly moving through the engine bay while the car is in motion. Filter placement is key here. Where the Short Rams place the filter is in a pressurized zone where air is directed towards the filter. On a Dyno, the car sits still so generally these numbers are lower, but in motion, this is where these intakes shine.

Filter placement is something to look for on cold air intakes. The INJEN intake places its filter infront of the radiator. At highway speeds, a cushin of air is formed around the filter directing on coming air around the filter. It is harder for the engine to draw in air when the filter is in a high turblent area like this. On the NISMO / AEM intake the filter is placed infront of the wheel. In this area air is less turbulent so the engine can draw in air with less effort.

With a Cold Air Intake you can possibly suck water up into your engine. To avoid this, look for an intake that includes or has an option to add a water diverter valve. This keeps water from being sucked into the engine by bringing air in through the valve rather then the soaking wet filter. The NISMO intake includes this. It is an option with the AEM. Short Ram intakes do not have this problem.

Is it possible for an aftermarket intake to void your warranty? Yes. Only if the Mass Air Flow sensor is damaged. The only time this happens is during instalation or if an over oiled filter is installed. If oil or any particle comes in contact with the MAF it could damage it. A MAF can be damaged with the stock intake as well.

The intake that makes the best horsepower gain for the money, sound, and performance that I would recomend is the JWT Pop Charger. $120 plus shipping and a independantly proven consitant 6.5 Horse power to the wheels gain. This is the way to go.




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Yeah I'm trying to decide between a Cold Air and a Short Ram as well. My friend has a 3-Series BMW and told me to get a Cold Air, but it seems here everyone has the JWD Popcharger; they guy at the Infiniti Dealership (where I bought my girl) told me to go with the Popcharger as well as so many people loved them.

My question is will the Cold Air produce any more bhp/tq than the Popcharger?

 

everyone on here says no to minimal gains and also you have a long tube so it will hurt your throttle response compared to a short ram....i just want to get it for the louder sound

 

Yes...Do not go the CAI way...Go with the JWT or Stillen....Much better investmetnt

 

Haha I think I'm going to give my friend Stephen a call. Mechanical Engineer for Nissan who happens to own a 06 Z, can't go wrong with asking him!!!

Anyways thanks for the reply guys. I might just go for the Popcharger. But I heard someone say it has a "whiny" sound and I'm wondering if they meant that annoying, misquito-like ricer hum like you hear on the s2000s, or anything stupidly riced like Civics, Accords, Neons, etc, etc.

Thanks again.