This may seem like its been asked before, not sure whether it has or hasnt but here it is. Yes i have looked but im kinda curious to what some of you peopl think.

Q. What is a good weight to get the maxima down too?

My 98 SE 5spd with sunroof, leather, auto climate, bose etcc., with absolutely no weight reduction, everything in the car as it came from the factory, half a tank of gas, spare, washer fluid full, im sure a lot of other stuff that added weight. I got weighed at a local dumping yard and it came in as 3278LBS. thats including me (115lbs). So i figure 3163 without driver.

I dont want the car to be stripped or anything, i still want it to be streetable, quiet like it should be, nothing drastic, but id just like to hear some different opinions on what the maxima should weigh. Im guessing around 2900-3000lbs would be nice?

 

i can never figure out why maxima weights vary so much. my all stock 95 weighs like 3105 with me in it and nothing but the spare tire removed. So that's 2960 without me.

I think alot of the discrepancy comes from different scales honestly. I just don't see sound deadening and leather and heated seat equipment and some extra crash protection adding 200lbs to the same body style car, but maybe i'm wrong.

 

Don't forget the Canadian maximas came from the factory with VLSD so they all got full sized spares. I still have the original 16" alloy rim with a never been used Toyo Proxes tire on it in my trunk.

That is good for a few extra pounds.

 

I know what you mean, i guess its along the same lines as 1/4 results. driver skill plays a huge roll, and in weight the scale plays a huge roll. This scale i cant imagine being very accurate #1 reason being is, when i went there i told her i had to dump some stuff, and the car weighed 3378, but i didnt take anything out, just a lame excuse to weigh, then coming back it weiged 3278. Even tho i didnt take anything out it still showed i lost 100lbs. So i figure it could easily be 100lbs off, which would knock me around normal weight.

Also i do have a full size spare, a good 38LBS i beleive, still with the original proxes A05 which is brand new. Still has the rubber hairs

The 4th gens are still pretty damn light for what they are considering most of htem are fullly loaded. My freinds 07 Jetta GLI weighed in at 3698lbs. given hes about 175lbs, but its still pretty damn heavy.

 

Stock weight should be 2950-3000 for a 95-96 and 3000-3050 for a 97-99 so yeah they are surprisingly light. Ive never seen a FWD car as big or bigger than 4th gens that did not weight MORE.

 

My 1995 SE 5spd Fully Loaded w/ Leather, Sunroof, Spoiler, etc, and a full tank of gas weighed in @ 3100lbs.

 

without me, my maxima (98 3.5 5spd GLE) weighs in at 2860.

 

I just looked at some of my old timeslips and my 96 gxe was 2760 without me, without passenger seat, spare, and rear seat. So add 45lbs for passenger seat, call it 15 for the spare and 10 for the rear seat and that's 2830 with full interior and 1/4 tank of gas. That car had other weight reducing items like a CF hood, light wheels, suspension that was lighter than stock, but it also had SFCs which added aout 25-30lbs to the weight of the car.

 

ok the pass non power seat is around 40 lbs. the spare is 27 lbs 6 oz. total rear seat not just bottom 95 cloth is 30 lbs 0.0 oz even.

guys cars with different years(4th gens) and trim can swing 100-150 lbs in weight i have accounted for it and iam in the process of weighing many things.

Just the 95 aluminum bumpers save around 30 lbs over the 96 and the 97-99 bumpers are heavier than the 96's.i dont have a exact weight yet because i havent weighed the 96 stock front yet.

so what iam saying is you will see huge weight differences because they are really there.

 

this is another thing all maximas dont have a spoiler it all adds up that weighs 4 lbs 5.6 oz

 

thx for all the replies..im heading down to the track tomorrow(mission raceway) so hopefully ill get some good runs down and ill post the results.

thanks

 

usually big weight differences are cars with moonroofs, larger rims, and automatic transmissions.

Larger rims:
1) weigh more
2) are often taller overall than stock wheels

to go a little faster there is a couple of tricks you can do

1) put a smaller diameter tire on the front. This will raise the rpm faster, and cause your car to accellerate faster. you should see a couple of 1/10s with that

2) deep stage. when pulling up to the starting line, once both the prestage and stage lights come on, creep up a hair further until the prestage bulb goes out. this will give you a faster reaction time, as well as a faster ET, but it will show a little less MPH...

be sure to write DEEP on your window so the tower knows you are planning to deepstage

 

stop breaking up your ideas into different posts unless you want to get banned. that's ridiculous.

 

ok so i went to a truck scale, half a tank, with me, no spare, jack, took everything out of the car that wasnt needed(i usually have quite a bit in the car), the car weighed in at 3056lbs. Much more around what i expected. Also came back 2 hour later without the passenger seat and rear seat removed and weighed in at 2981. Althought for 75lbs id rather keep those in there. The pass seat was a PITA to remove. stupid side airbags lol.

 

man i saw an auction on ebay for a rear bumper for a 97 maxima, i thought i would see if they would ship to NZ, im so tired of the sarona rear. i asked him to weigh it right, he emails back says he cant ship to NZ and that the rear bumper is 50 lbs ? What tha ? that cannot be right!

guess im stuck with sarona rear but it doesnt weigh a hair over 19 lbs, if memory serves me right.

 

He probably thought you wanted the whole thing, as opposed to just the skin. The support is around 38, 43.. something like that IIRC... the rest is the skin

 

??? Is that right guys? You'd be able to accelerate faster however the tires are smaller so you're actually covering less ground aren't you? Therefore decreasing the amount of area you cover per tire revolution and inevitably lowering trap speed.

 

Well from what i can gather, it would allow your car to accelerate faster, which means your et will be lower, but your trap would decrease. Im not too sure, but a smaller tire/rim combo (lighter, but keeping same overall diameter), will always help.

 

wow so taking out the seats and spare before the track is a pretty easy ~100lbs

 

i weight my maxima and it was 3260 with driver so you should be able to get it to 3060 if u do alot to it

 

staging deep WONT improve your ET ... once you break the beams your time starts, regardless of your reaction time ... you can sit there all day and it WONT hurt your ET, just the same as if you got a perfect light ...

((and)) it doesnt hurt your MPH ... where are you getting this info???

 

The weights can vary so much due to options and trim levels. But id say a GXE is the best to start with. The 4th gens are pretty light to begin with though. Id say id agree with you, right around 3k even is roughly a good weight. I will weigh my 00 gxe 5spd in the spring at a local recycling plant. Ill update in this thread what my mods are and the ending weight.