OEM Part Number: 32865-5Y710 / Knob-Control Lever (Discontinued)
Original Price: $130.00 to $150.00
Applicable Cars:
Community Member Credit: Claude St-Pierre
Notes:
Community Member Credit: Eddy
After swapping my 1998 4thgen Nissan Maxima with a 2020 Gen3 VQ35DE engine, I was not able to use a strut bar. But thanks to some information from Josh and Blandon, I was able to try a 6thgen Maxima Stillen strut bar and to my surprise, it fits 100%. Fits perfect and has no hood clearance issues. This strut bar should work with any VQ35DE swapped 4thgen. No modifications are needed.
Below are the ones I tried that did not fit:
Community Member Credit: schmellyfart
Finally got a chance to dyno the swap today. I decided to spring the extra $10 for an AFR reading since my EU is disconnected. Grand total: $30 for two pulls. Same shop/dyno I used for my previous pulls with the 3.0.
Minor changes that might affect readings:
Current setup:
Owner: Bishnu Dinanauth
Year: 2000
Model: Maxima
Color: Black
Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
Trim: SE
Ok, I started with my 5th gen kit and had to use to the 5th gen piping. This piping was nice and clean but I could not use an open air BOV since the MAF was on the uncharged side any air lost thereafter was registered as a leak and the car would stall. It was time to get creative and try to make some changes.
This setup was nice for a very dependable and worry-free boost application, I just think all that piping made the blower choke and not deliver to its full potential, mainly because of all the bends on the piping.
This is the way it is now, it is still not complete but its %85 there
My MAF is not going to stay this way. A member on here(absoundlab) is helping me out with a 3in MAF housing to make the 5th gen MAF capable of registering all the air that is going by. This pic is just the initial mock-up and not the final product, as I said before it’s only 85% done.
As for the supercharger air inlet, I used 3in piping and a 3in Fujita filter to make things work. I had to cut the part of the car where the windshield tank comes up and make the hole bigger to pass the pipe. Cutting this part of the car is not going to hurt it structurally.
3″ Piping
This is how the filter sits…..
Credit: Bishnu Dinanauth / secondtonone317
Don’t know if this was posted before but…I used a DEK fuel rail on a 3.5 to utilize the return line. It was a cheap and easy way out for me since I did not want to go looking for another option and use what I had.
First, I shaved the tabs off my DEK rail and marked the mounting tabs, and trimmed them so the rail would drop in.
Little clearance issue with the UIM, it cleared but touched
I marked it and shaved it down a little
Then I made some brackets to apply pressure to the original tabs that do not line up with the 3.5 LIM to hold it in place.
I think I will cut where I made the red mark in the pic below and put a rubber tube there as it has on the 4th gen fuel rail to give it some more flexibility.
Community Member Credit: Eddy
The Mishimoto performance aluminum radiator for the Nissan Maxima is designed and engineered to maximize cooling efficiency, boost engine functions, and protect your car from overheating.
Notes: This is not a full VQ30DE-T engine. It’s an A32 VQ30DE with a VQ30DE-T Upper Intake Manifold
