Best intake and suspension for an '02 Maxima?

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I JUST BOUGHT A BERK INTAKE.

[Beancooker]

Good choice. They all do about the same thing. The Place Racing/Cattman gives you "true cold air" but, it's also really spendy.

[jltibbs]

noah, you ever get that cattman?

[Beancooker]

Nope, the next mod/money into the Maxima will be to bottlefeed her. 75 shot to be exact.

[jltibbs]

ugh. so many people spraying. i want to but i have 200K miles and it's my only car. plus, i am in charge of all bills right now

[TheKon]

well open up a savings account...put 15% of your paycheck in there every pay period...in time you'll have a few grand saved up then go for the Nitrous. Worst case senario you'll have enough money saved up for a new motor or you can do dry nitrous which is a little safer than direct injection.

[Beancooker]

You are misinformed, dry systems are the most unsafe systems available. A wet system is the safest, since you are mixing the fuel with the nitrous. There is less chance of detonation, or running lean.

I'll post more about this when not at work.

[jltibbs]

ok, my bad, didn't specify. i'm the only one working right now and paying all the bills. wife is student teaching and does not get paid for it. we broke yo!

[Maxima Girl]

WISE CHOICE.

I put a BERK intake on my mom's 2003 and it is by far the best sounding a performing intake I have seen and used on a 3.5.

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can you tell the difference with the intake on as far as performance and mpg

[Beancooker]

I gained MPG with an intake. I lost the gains when I added the full exhaust. As far as "feel the HP... not really. You will feel a difference with exhaust. Since you drive a 5.5 gen, you will feel the biggest difference by adding headers. Cattman sells them for $785, or somewhere close to there.

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thats way to much for some header despite the fact you have to get them installed. I thought i would a notice a little in acceleration increase but i guess not. everything cost so much if you want a noticable difference in HP. are you saying i might get better gas mileage

[Beancooker]

Probably won't give you that much better gas mileage. HP is expensive, plain and simple.

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what kind of lowerin springs should i buy eibach or tein springs and what does the spring rate mean

[Beancooker]

Spring rate

Tein will give a little softer ride, Eibach is all out stiff and performance.

BTW, since this thread is about intakes, let's try to keep it on topic, and keep the spring discussion in the suspension thread you started.

[nymax02]

Tein has better ride and even drop !!!

[Beancooker]

But Tein is a squishier shock, and you will hit your bumpstops with them, where as an Eibach, is stiff enough that you won't bottem out the bumpstops.

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when you say bottom out you mean. the car slamming down when i hit a bump. and iam looking for a spring that will absorb the bumps would that be a stiff spring or softer spring.

[Beancooker]

The Tein are squishy enough, that you can hit a bump, and compress the spring enough to cause the suspension to be "fully compressed". That feels really jolting when it happens, and will make your CD player skip.

You will not have that problem with the Eibach springs, however, they are really stiff, and you will feel every bump in the road.

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Which ones do you have or which ones would you go with

[Beancooker]

Eibach Springs, and Tokico Illumina Struts.

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hethe only thing about the eibach is that the drop is low enough in the front. and i cant afford the struts.

[Beancooker]

I don't quite follow... the drop is okay in the front, but not the rear?

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the eibach springs are only 1.3 in the front i want 1.6 to 2inches in the front the rear is fine its already low enough.

[Beancooker]

Eibach drops you 1.5 in the front. Half an inch is not that much. If you want it to sit low, get rid of the 4x4 wheels and put 18" on it. That alone will lower it by one full inch.

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the diameter of 20 inch wheels and tires are the exact same diameter of stock 17inch wheels and tires. i just have more rim and less tire than stock. so why would it mater

[Beancooker]

I didn't think your tires looked that low of a profile. If you had 18's and a 30 or 40 series tire, you would sit lower than you do now.

[Beancooker]

Dude, your tires are a 35 series, and I have 17's with a 40 series, and came stock with a 40 series. Your tires and wheels are not the same height as stock 17's and tires. The difference would be about 3 inches. If the stock tires are a 40 series, but are 235 wide, and your tires are a 35 series, and 245 wide... Here: the sidewall of a 235/40 is 94mm. the sidewall of a 245/35 is 86mm. that is a difference of 8 mm. that is less than half of an inch in height difference in sidewalls. So you added 3" of rim, and have a sidewall that is half an inch smaller. So you gained 2.5". Divide that by 2 since it is split, and you raised your car 1.25 inches when you put those wheels on.

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iam not takin ma rims off though thats not a option. iam tryin to be driving a pocket rocket maxima. I put my stock tires up to my rims and its the same size.

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it is raised a lil but iam not taking rims off though bruh. Iam going for a different look than most max riduh how many people on here is on 20s and not many. holla back!