Great Lakes Dragaway

1995 Nissan Maxima SE 5spd
Mods:
Short Ram Intake w/ K&N Filter
Y-Pipe
CM Test Pipe
Greddy Muffler
Exedy Racing Clutch
STS

Car had a 1/4 tank of gas, removed rear seat, Stock ECU and Intake Manifold. Ran with stock 15" sawblades and blizzak winter tires.


I just hit a new PB tonight:

R/T .430
60' 2.215
330 6.170
1/8 9.413
MPH 75.76
1000 -----(Machine wasnt printing 1000 all night)
1/4 14.580
MPH 96.26

I also had a couple 14.6's and 14.7's all 96 MPH traps . My old best time was 14.906@93.xx. Bad traction again, Do you think its possible to get a low 14.0-14.1 with G-Force Drag Radials?

Thanks,

-Nick

 

Ahh... and what a great run that 14.5 was!!

 

Really good time for those mods! Looks like ya'll had fun.

 

nice times man! any good kills as well? always fun to waste some of the competition at the strip (personal favorites are Rustang GT's )

 

Yes there was a really good mustang kill as a matter of fact. I beat two modified 5.0 Mustangs easily and then my favorite a '04 Mustang GT.

I pulled up to him in the staging lanes and he looked over at my Maxima and started to laugh at it. Well then we lined up and I took him off the line and at the end of the quarter I was easily 5 car lengths ahead. We then pulled back to the staging lanes where I found him with his hood open and I pulled up next to him again, and he immediately came over to my car and said,"Hey man, sorry about before, I must admit you smoked me!" and shook my hand. I was really surprised and right before we raced we both had are windows down and he yelled,"Hey can you do me a favor?" and I said, "Whats that?". "Don't Smoke as badly as you did last time, it was embarrassing!".
I ended up beating him both times.

He ran a 14.9 both times and I ran a 14.5 and 14.6. All in all it was a very fun night, I hope that some drag radials(G-force) will really help me 60' times and lower my overall 1/4 mile times some more.

-Nick

 

nice job. you'd probably be lookin at 14.3s, maybe 14.2s with DRs. you will need more traction to get down to 14.0-14.1 meaning slicks...

 

Any recommendation on what kind of slicks and what size for my stock 15" steelies?

Thanks,

-Nick

 

That was a great run Nick, congrats again!

 

nice time. definitely put a drag radial on there or something. as soon as I get a clutch i'll be looking to purchase some drag radials. or maybe some slicks.

 

Any reason why you don't wanna go slicks with the OEM clutch? I heard ACT ****s your tranny over.

 

Too much stress on a stock clutch...It will burn it up.

-Nick

 

I've been running a stock clutch and slicks doing clutch drops at 5500rpm for 2 years now and I've got probably 120 passes on the slicks pulling 1.8s and low 1.9s, not to mention the other 175 street tire passes, so i would tend to disagree...

 

Wow, I thought you said your clutch was what was holding you back..Neal, what kinda slicks are you running and what size?

Thanks,

-Nick

 

Ha like the stang story. Its usually surprising how nice the fellow draggers are at the strip. I usually end up talkin to the guys I race, and havent had any give me a bad attitude yet. Usually they're just real shocked that a Maxima, automatic at that! can beat their cars (in regards to stangs, camaros, WRX's, you know the sort). Lot of cool people that go to the strip I find tho.

 

it does hold me back but its the difference between being limited to 5500rpm clutch drops whereas with an upgraded clutch i would be able to drop it right off redline. M&H 26x6 size