The Nissan Path

I noticed the rubber air ducts on my factory air intake system have split apart on my '06 Pathy. I found the Nissan 16576-EA200 air duct assembly online for about $46, shipped. It would be a good time to go with an aftermarket CAI kit, if I am going to go that route. There are three I've been looking at: the Volant 12640 for $250 after rebate, the Injen Power Flow Air Intake System PF1959P for $378, and the aFe Power 51-76102 Momentum GT Pro DRY S Stage-2 Intake System for $425. Which would you pick if you were me?

I would just stick the OEM style.

I'd stay OEM as well. I had to replace a portion of my ducting-the foam surround at the wheel well had fallen apart. I was eyeing the Volant for quite some time, but I was never able to find any definitive proof of any gains made by using it.

voted OEM
i've not seen any compelling reason to do otherwise

eieio wrote:voted OEM
i've not seen any compelling reason to do otherwise

Same vote here.

That's kind of what I was thinking. If I'm going to spend an extra $200+, I'd like to see some gains for it.

I have Volant and I love it, The sound and the feel is awesome. It replaces the factory tube & box.

Volant was at the top of the list when I started thinking about it. I love the big box of the aFe and how it comes with a cover for the snorkel for winter time, but $425 is an awful lot of money!

Sometimes CAIs sound cool, that could be worth something.

I have a k&n filter charger that I use. I think it's great. I literally never have to change my filter. I clean it and oil it about every other year. Just did the white rag test in the intake tube while doing my rad, and it was ridiculously clean so also very happy with that.

Next I'd like to do an oil analysis like you did as that is also very telling.

disallow wrote:Sometimes CAIs sound cool, that could be worth something.

I have a k&n filter charger that I use. I think it's great. I literally never have to change my filter. I clean it and oil it about every other year. Just did the white rag test in the intake tube while doing my rad, and it was ridiculously clean so also very happy with that.

Next I'd like to do an oil analysis like you did as that is also very telling.

Blackstone recently raised their price on the basic analysis to $28 plus $10 if you want to get info an extending the oil change interval. The sample kit to mail in is free.

Yeah, I also have the issue of trying to send my sample over the US/Canada border. Adds to the cost.

I would just go stock unless I was going to add a tune and or other mods. I own a 2013 Mustang GT with the 5.0 V8 and long story short I have an aftermarket cold air intake that on its own makes little difference in performance but with my Steeda Mustang tune gives the car quite a jump and it's worth it.

I read on here about a Nismo cai
Where can i look that up and what does it look like?
I'm running a airraid from a toyota tundra and all you get is more noise
I would run stock unless it got pricy just go cheapest after market thats not knn

I stayed with my factory intake and just did the Titan airbox mod and threw in a K+N filter.

Whenever I get around to it, I'm thinking of removing the current snorkel tube and replacing it with a larger diameter tube to hopefully allow more air in to the airbox than the current one does. I'm thinking that some sort of flexible tubing would be easier to manipulate than a hard pipe.

http://www.titantalk.com/forums/titan-p ... x-mod.html

not on the rug wrote:I stayed with my factory intake and just did the Titan airbox mod and threw in a K+N filter.

Whenever I get around to it, I'm thinking of removing the current snorkel tube and replacing it with a larger diameter tube to hopefully allow more air in to the airbox than the current one does. I'm thinking that some sort of flexible tubing would be easier to manipulate than a hard pipe.

http://www.titantalk.com/forums/titan-p ... x-mod.html

I read through the first 15 of the 26 pages and then jumped to the last couple. I would have loved if somebody had actually compared the stock v. modified vs. Volant air boxes on a dyno to get some actual proof of benefits of cutting the snorkel. There are a lot of "theories," but it seems the only thing we actually know about the mod is that it makes it louder and keeps dirt better distributed across the filter media as opposed to just the right corner. There's no actual proof that the shortened snorkel does anything to increase airflow, reduce turbulence or increase power...and I don't accept "butt dynos" as a scientific tool. It "may" improve performance, I would just like to see some numbers to back it up, that's all.