No drone. It sounds pretty good, just louder than I expected. I might put the cats back on. Or maybe I'll just get used to it.

Front to back I have - stock air filter, Stillen Z tube, Skunk 5/16" spacer, stock exhaust manifolds, high-flow cats (can't remember the brand off-hand), stock Y pipe, coupe mid, and the new muffler.

 

Spent some time buffing my hood and the rest of the car. Reflection is glorious

 

Image is dead for me but i'm sure it looks great!

 

Lol let me see if I can repost it

 

no dice haha but thanks for trying

 

Image works fine on my laptop, all 4 posts of it lol. I love these types of pics, here's one of my GTO just after I detailed her a while back.




On another note not installed yet but have a cam sensor on the way. OEM only for me on these things but Nissan wanted $143 for 1 and the local Inifniti dealer wanted a bit more. Found the genuine part on Amazon for $74 shipped. God I love the internet!!

 

For me today was the time for winter tire
Bye 255 on 18's, welcome 215 on 17's

 

Digging this fitment (the rear) anyone know if that's a pull in the rear or just some camber?

 

I'm looking at the low res version on my phone here and it most definitely looks pulled. There's no way he rides around like that though. No suspension travel at all lol. Hope he's on bags.

 

Thanks urban.

I was only looking at how cool it looks instead of factoring in the whole driving it part. Thanks for the reality check Cuz i needed it lol

 

So, I did a bit of intake "testing" over the last two weeks or so. Basically, I just compared things like intake temp, sound and "performance"(performance is subjective and done with my poorly calibrated butt dyno)

Disclaimer: this is in no way a real intake shootout and I just wanted to see what the differences were on the cheap(as I was piecing this together on the fly this cost me more than if you just got a cheap ebay CAI kit and replaced the filter with the blox one). Also, just for fun.

I only have pictures of the final setup but you've all seen the stock airbox and a cone filter(JWT/Stillen/R2C) so use your imagination lol

Ambient air temp based on temp from dash
Intake Air temp taken from OBD II and Torque Pro
Driving Impression based on size of smile on face

Other mods that may change things for others, 5/16" motordyne spacer, Stillen z-Tube, Magnaflow y-pipe back exhaust for Sedan.

Stock Airbox
Ambient Air Temp - 11-12 Degrees Celsius (51 - 54F)
driving air temps - 19C (66F)
Idle Temps - 21C - 25C (70F - 77F)
Driving impressions: you know...fine and dandy, but quiet

Short Ram Intake (no heat shield)
Ambient Air Temp - 11-12 Degrees Celsius (51 - 54F)
driving air temps - 19C (66F)
Idle Temps - 24C - 44C (75F - 111F)
Driving impressions: felt the same down low, but pulled hard from 5000rpm to redline. Sound was louder and was way more satisfying without any resonators on the intake. (also...induction noises )

Cold Air Intake
Ambient Air Temp - 17C (63F)
driving air Temp - 20C (68F)
Idle Temps - 25C (77F)
Driving Impressions: feels a bit lazy under 2500rpm, but after that it pulls hard straight through to redline. The sound is even louder 4000RPM+ at WOT. It gets a bit trumpety after 5500rpm but I like it. I decided to keep this setup as I get the intake temps the same as stock(possibly even better as it was a warmer day out) and I love the power delivery and sound. When you're not going WOT and around the 3000rpm range or lower it's not annoyingly loud either, so the wife will be happy. (Even louder induction noises!)

So my end setup was stillen z-tube(one of the first mods I got so it was staying), an ebay aluminium MAF adapter (I don't trust plastic ones), Yonaka Polished 3" mandrel bent tubing, Blox Velocity Stack with Filter.

yes yes...hydrolock, yes yes...loss of low down torque, yes yes...should've just bought *insert favourite brand here*, yes yes...intake does nothing for the DE. BUT remember...this was a fun trial and error process and it was just a fun mod in general.

 

Nice indecisive. Do you think it improves the 0-60 time?

 

I honestly have no idea. I mainly wanted a more aggressive engine noise and induction sound

 

Not a chance, better sound and a cool look to the engine bay is all this will produce.

 

Today was the day for my tune and the instalation of my Takeda intake
I did three virtual dyno log this morning and three log after the intake instalation and the street tune. I did a mean of these three run to minimize error and plot it on virtual dyno with a correction factor to give the Hp instead of wHp here is the result. I know that not a real dyno result but it's better than nothing.