So my family has done alot of work with a air intake company called airaid
http://airaid.com/

they make amazing air intakes that see good gains and spend alot of time testing them and dynoing them. When i purchased my z my first thought was go talk to our friend there and get a free intake, they made the z for a long time and alot of people spend money on parts like this but sadly they never manufactured a full kit for the z, he said the reason was there was no market for it so im going to try and convince him to do a one off kit on my z and if the gains are to the z owners liking he may put them into production. Anyone interested ?
i would have to have a petition of forum members to show that we are serious about wanting another intake company for our vehicles.

 

i don't think you should, there are plenty of intakes avail for the z already

 

yeah I have to agree, why when there are many out there already.

 

just thought id see if anyone was interested i know they do great work just putting a idea out there

 

tell them to make an intake manifold, not just an intake pipe.

Or tell them to make larger intake pipes like 3.5 -4 inches (would require retune for maf calibrations.)

 

not worth it, they will struggle to make gains and you can get the pop charger for cheap

 

ill shoot them all your guy's input he may do a kit with larger intake pipes like suggested to see more gains this will be a several month process but will keep you all up to date if the plan continues forward

 

Don't buy the performance numbers.All intakes are basically the same,give or take.
The AIRAID tube bellows out allegedly allowing more air to flow...hmm?
Save your money&time,slap on a Popcharger.

 

after all these years, I don' think there are any breakthroughs to be made in the area of intakes for the 350Z.

 

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A N/A VQ needs to run 3.5 or 4 intake pipe. Even with stock cams. I'm running a 4" intake pipe, and that's what put my stock motor to 300 whp.



Where in NC are you?

 

Totally not necessary at this point

 

first thing that popped into my head before i clicked the thread was...bug spray?

 

If you have the VQ35HR, the gains with aftermarket intakes are negligible at best. The motor already has plenty of air inlet already and there isn't much more room left to improve. All you would really be doing is changing the sound. I didn't even bother getting aftermarket intakes; all I got is ART + Motordyne + Tune and left it at that. $300-500 to change how my engine sound w/ hardly any gains is not worth spending.

 

If you want to improve performance involving the intake,consider getting a different or larger throttle body.I've got a Mine's.It really made a difference after a proper tune.

 

Use to live in Greensboro, Raleigh, and Durham. Now I am in Maryland.

 

make a nice 3.5" intake to make up to the larger 09 maxima throttle body. Include a nice velocity stake and filter and you are set.

The maxima TB is atleast 5mm bigger and will work with the oem ecu. The LS1\2 87\90mm TBs have issues and dont work well with the factory ecu.

 

Oh ok


Yeppp




3.5 intake or 4.0 easy decision. This is on a STOCK internal motor! FWD too.

 

Too add to this thread, I have the airiad cai on my f150 fx4 and love the sound along with my mbrp exhaust.

 

blue is the 3.5 intake and 4" is the red??

 

Yes, pretty good gains.



I don't understand why the RWD N/A guys are running stock maf/intake size