Reinstalling the Nissan Frontier's Fake Cold Air Intake Part 1

You've got that right, it's colder than the Short Ram Intake, which I tried, but it sure as heck is FAKE. Be sure to watch to find out how it's fake and understand, I'm a mechanic for a living, I realize all kinds of original equipment from manufacturers have ways of making it look like you have a cold air intake when you really don't have one. For example. Your intake manifold is on one side of the engine bay. They won't take air from over there, they'll stretch to the opposite fender well so it looks cold, but it really is just another hot air intake to save gas. I like saving gas too, but don't be fooled if your goals are to make power.

In the last video I evaluated the Short Ram Air Intake as I got rid of it: https://youtu.be/7Zud8L9B32g

So Stock Air Intake vs Short Ram? Which is the winner? You may better decide yourself from my first video of the series: https://youtu.be/OOpdvqRYHms Depends on your climate but anything more than 70 degrees F outside or about 25 degrees C, plus non-moving traffic, and you've got an intake which is running very warm. Don't get me wrong it's efficient, but even though when you start moving the short ram sucks in cold air from behind the headlight, the IAT or intake air temperature sensor with this basic modification doesn't actually see that colder air and it throws your fuel trims showing rich. That's because the short ram really does immediately get cold air, but your computer can't see that since the IAT is in a pipe with relatively unmoving air. It's gone from an intake air temperature sensor to a engine ambient temperature sensor. It's next to the radiator and air does come past it, but the short ram being right behind the head light, it gets close to ambient air whenever it's moving.

You'll see these issues even better when I come out with part 2 of my Nissan Frontier's Stock Cold Air Intake Install.

From 1998 to 2004 there were a lot of V6's by Nissan which should apply to this information. There's the Frontier, the Pathfinder, and even the 2002 to 2004 Xterra as it exists in the same time frame. Get under the hood and you'd forget it was a different car. I got to work on one the other day at the shop. The SUV is way lighter than the truck so I bet the V6 in it feels like a lot more. Everything on the chassis is lightened that I looked out too. Probably really fun vehicles.

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