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I reckon if you sorted out a proper intake by taking out the resonator box behind the indicator and running a intake pipe down the side to either the headlight or behind the lower grill, it'd be fine. Noise + Performance. Yey! It'd increase fuel consumption though.
 
The problem with that is available space for the pipe routing - I looked at taking the resonator out and routing an intake pipe, but the only place you could put it really was by taking out the pass side fog light. Fine for a track car, but an MOT failure on the road. You can't have just one front fog light.
It's an awkward one, so back to the panel filter I went. The intake noise is much more bareable after the induction kit, it gave me a headache after half an hour ! :lol:
 
Cheers to both of you for the filter advice. I'm gonna go with the panel filter option, Pipercross panel filters are £38.80 from Motorsportworld so I'm happy with that price.
 
JPerformance 4-2-1 manifold

I bought and fitted a Jetex panel filter last week and now I'm seriously thinking about buying a 4-2-1 manifold from JPerformance.

I've been looking through the threads and can't find anyone with a N16 who has a JPerformance manifold. I'm a bit wary because of the £167 price tag seems too cheap for it to be any good, and is there anything to aware of before fitting one?
 
I had one on my old N16, it was OK, fitting it was a pig, was about 4" too long. Mine was a cat on manifold one though, think they'll fit the ones with cats between downpipe and midpipe OK...
 
lrt84 said:
I bought and fitted a Jetex panel filter last week and now I'm seriously thinking about buying a 4-2-1 manifold from JPerformance.

I've been looking through the threads and can't find anyone with a N16 who has a JPerformance manifold. I'm a bit wary because of the £167 price tag seems too cheap for it to be any good, and is there anything to aware of before fitting one?
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This very subject was talked about last week, so there will be a thread about it. Seemed to me like a 50/50 choice - some peeps thought they were fine, others not happy at all. I've taken a step back because of the comments made.
 
I agree, 50/50 is not enough to convince me to buy one either. The Americans fit OBX manifolds to their Sentras and I was wondering if they're fit our Almeras without a problem as they are the same car underneath.

Regarding the cat on my car it must be on the manifold too because theres definately not one under the car.
 
Almerasleeper said:
Further to Wraith's post, Remus also do a direct-fit backbox for the 1.8. They're supposed to retail at £220 :eek: but as they are an old line now, I got mine for £120. Stainless steel, TUV approved and lifetime warranty :)
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As I'm leaving the 4-2-1 purchase alone for the moment, I'm going to buy a Remus backbox but where on earth did you get yours from at £120? I can only find them for a nasty £285 :eek:
 
If I remember correctly, it was Demon Tweeks. Guy said they had a clearance sale of not-so-popular stock on at the time. He instantly chopped the retail price in half ! :D

Just as a side note here, if you're expecting an instant sportiness (rasp, bass note, whatever) you'll be disappointed with the Remus. The backbox on it's own doesn't make much difference to the sound. It's well-made, looks the part & MOT friendly, but I had to remove the middle-pipe box to get a more serious note from the exhaust. If you remove the big centre box you'll get a nice little burble at idle & a decent tone at other revs. I think if you removed the smaller box as well (ie.straight through pipe), it would be more aggressive but also boomy at motorway speeds. It all depends what you like & want mate ;) You could always ask Wraith what his Sebring backbox is like for comparison ? :)
 
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