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Installation will take at least two hours. This could be done faster, but if you are removing the stock airbox and being very fastidious about the install, it is difficult to go any faster than 1.5 hours. Car used in these instructions was a 1997 Nissan Maxima GXE 5-speed owned by Cheston Chiu, lowered and with an FSTB. Both of those notes may affect the pictures and may or may not affect your installation. We removed the stock ram air scoop in this install, which while not required, considerably cleans up the engine bay and did not add more than 10 minutes to the installation process. Standing in front of the car facing the car, right will be towards the driver’s side and left will be towards the passenger side unless noted.

Pre-Install:
Stock configuration. Battery, ram air scoop, stock intake are all in place. Note the FSTB-it does not affect the installation.
Note the fusebox connectors located above the fusebox itself. It is not necessary to remove these for installation, but you will want to move the fusebox and the connectors if possible. The hole for the CAI is right beneath the fusebox.
There are several holes running into the stock resonator piping - you can see 3 in this picture. You can also see 2 of the bolts holding the airbox to the MAF.
Stock ram air scoop. Note the lower piping branching off from the main scoop-this acts as a resonator and was removed as well. It hooks into battery tray and at the very least must be unclipped from the tray. The sensor attached to the ram air scoop on the left is a boost sensor-it will be removed and zip tied securely at the end. It will not see any boost, but because there is very little boost flowing through the stock scoop this does not matter.

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