Best Cold Air Intake, performance chips, and Exhaust sytstem for 2001 I30

[kelso03]

what are the best cold air intakes, exhaust systems, and performance chips for a 2001 I30?

[acidjake75]

since you have I30 (same as the max)

Intake - Berk Technology (short ram intake)

Exhaust - Cattman ( Y pipe, catback)

performance chips - wait til you get something worth upgrading but would check out Jim Wolf Technologies if you really want to do it, they should have it available.....

thats just my opinion though. hopefully some others will respond so you can get some diferent opinions.

[audtatious]

From an exhaust perspective I would actually lean more towards Cattman headers

[DjNikos]

From an exhaust perspective I would actually lean more towards Cattman headers

I thought that headers only leaned out the 3.0 engine with little gains and you could get most of the gain through a downpipe and exhaust. well the reason being, i thought the 2001 shares the base engine(with few exceptions like cams and 00vi) as the 4th gen a32's. Alot of people have been saying that the gains aren't worth it as they are that you would get from the 3.5L engine. But I could be mistaken on this

[audtatious]

That may be true. I know the 3.0 headers work great with the VQ35DE, but I have never followed up with any dyno tests on a VQ30DE. Y-pipes do a good job with the 2000-2001 from what I have heard and are def less costly than headers. Y-pipes do relatively nothing for the 2k2-2k3 Maxi.

On thing headers would do with a 2k-2k1 is remove some pre-cats which would be a plus.

[nizfanatic]

hi mate..i really find my nissan cold air intake the best intake ever for my Altima. can't find any trouble with my intake coz it perfectly fit for my car

[brianw]

Intake and y-pipe performance is all pretty similar, you won't see huge differences.

ECUs, the only companies that do anything worthwhile are Jim Wolf Technology (JWT) and Technosquare.

Headers do help on the VQ30DE-- the stock manifolds suck, but they don't suffocate the engine quite as bad as the VQ35DE suffers-- but at $175 for a cheap y-pipe or $350 for a nice one, y-pipes are a much better value.

Buy an exhaust for the sound.