Place Racing Cold Air Intake, hybrid with stock midpipe to keep low-end power.
New catch can
Frankencar Rear section installed to go with my b-pipe from them. Nice mellow sound, stainless steel, looks good, won't rust. First pic is stock muffler vs. FC, second is Cattman rear section vs. FC.
GAB (Ghetto Air Box) - used in winter
Alot of people will spend $50-100 for a name-brand (HKS, Nismo) oil catch can. Screw that! For $14 in materials, built my own. The catch can/tank is to catch oil blowby from the PCV valve that otherwise ends up gunking up the intake manifold. This was made with a $9 Husky air compressor filter, a few fittings, some hose, and an L-bracked from home depot.
filling up
Alternatively, it can also be done using a Fram G3 in-line fuel filter. Alot of the Subaru guys do it that way...
Frankencar B-pipe and resonated midpipe....stainless steel, mandrel-bent...a work of art.
Installed....
Old and new:
Frankencar intake with Apex'i filter
Custom hypergrounding setup (all the white wires) that I made. Makes engine smoother, quicker revs, some low end gains. I've added 4 more ground wires since I took this picture
Not really an engine component, but in the same area - the OEM maxima horn sounds like it came off a moped, so I replaced the set with Hella Supertones...for the time being I mounted them in the stock positions (1 under grill and other in engine bay) but when it gets warmer I'm going to put both behind the grill. Look at the size difference vs. OEM horn!
PCV Oil Blowby "catch can" reservoir
3rd try....still not happy with it..
2nd try after decided 1st try (bottom) looked bad:
A little Home Depot mod....some engine bay visuals - since I don't want to put stickers on the outside of the car (except the few already there)...decided to make a place to put em. This has been replaced now by the one above...
