Air intake for an 03 frontier

[Nyjd516]

What's a better air intake the k&n or the volant?
I wanna kno what's better for power and mpgs, please and thank you for the response in advance. I have the VG33E engine and its an 03 frontier

[Hertz]

I doubt there is much difference between the two.

[Nyjd516]

Well the volant is enclosed, and the k&n is open

[Jrjones]

From what I've read all the intakes do is increase intake noise with little gains. Power gains and MPG gains are minimal if there are any so it doesn't really matter which one you go with.

[Nyjd516]

So is it worth getting a CAI at all? I have a k&n drop in filter , I've used them in all my
Trucks, but reading about the CAI a lot of people talked about the volant being good if not better than k&n.

[Hertz]

Originally Posted by Nyjd516

So is it worth getting a CAI at all? I have a k&n drop in filter , I've used them in all my
Trucks, but reading about the CAI a lot of people talked about the volant being good if not better than k&n.

Depends on if you have the money to blow on one. The MPG gains are so minimal (if any) that it would probably never pay for itself. In reality they don't help as much as everyone thinks they do. If you just have to have one, buy a cheap cold air intake off eBay and put a quality cone filter on it.

[jtfrontier01]

If I were you and you really wanted to get a CAI I would go for the Kool Vue Intake from Autopartswarehouse. It is only like 60 dollars and it is basically a K&N Clone. Just grab yourself a K&N sticker and a filter and no one will ever know.

Kool Vue KV4401221K 1000 Cold Air Intake | Auto Parts Warehouse

It just isn't SMOG Approved if you live in Cali

So much better than 300 dollars and I know a lot of people that have them too

If you need a pic I can post one of it on my truck

[Nyjd516]

Yea I'd like to see what it looks like installed. And it's seems better to just purchase one off eBay or the kool vue one, I was gonna go to autozone and build my own but it wouldn't have a box so i figured it would suck alot of hot air from the engine bay and prove to be inefficient.

[joefrontier2]

I will say Volant. It's enclosed and pulls cold air from outside.

So here is the big problem. The Volant does NOT fit 2003 - 2004 model trucks w/o modification. The AC run that is located in that area hits the box and it does not sit right. The box fits in earlier models.

I had to heat the box and reshape it to get it to fix.

[Nyjd516]

That seems like a lot of customizing work for something that costs that much money, it should fit without any modifications