rikshaman

What would be the life a a VE? Meaning being able to run without many problems.

Nick93SE

mine is running at 196k with very little problems. Right now im having a situation with the tranny, but other than that its running good.

westy92max

mine has 213k on it and it just started to have some major problems. you should at least get 200k out of your max if you do normal maintanence, and yes that does mean replacing our ****ty injectors once or twice

rikshaman

tranny problems?? That sux. thats why i have a 5-spd

Greeny

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266k and still going strong

rikshaman

HEy Wayne hows the power on the engine? can you still chirp or peel out or has it lost its power?

floods943

142k on VG and I can still "chirp" easily. haha. Not much else though.

westy92max

hey what do you guys think i should do, my link is "I think its dead"! Thanks a bunch!

rikshaman

dunno westy, imho you shoukd part it out if u cant start it.

aminus21

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dont the VG's have a longer life expectancy ON AVERAGE??

Cliff Clavin

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Mine had 147k on it when I ran a 15.2 and it was 85 degrees out...

I think that the engine with the best maintenance will have the longer life expectancy. Another factor is probably how you drive, too. If you are stop and go and hammering the accelerator all the time, you probably won't get as many miles as someone who drives easy and keeps it at 65 on the freeway.

rikshaman

What was the stock time posted by motortrend for the VE?

Cliff Clavin

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Motor Trend, Oct. 1991 (Road Test)
1992 Maxima SE 5-speed (VE30DE) 15.9 @89 mph
0-60 7.6 seconds

Car and Driver, Aug. 1992 (Comparison Test w/ SHO and Camry SE)
1992 Maxima SE 5-speed (VE30DE) 15.5 @91 mph
0-60 7.0 seconds

Car and Driver, Nov. 1991 (Short Take)
1992 Maxima SE 5-speed (VE30DE) 15.3 @91 mph
0-60 6.7 seconds

Greeny

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I got it with 170k on it. the vtc's were shot=NO POWER so i grounded them{thanks to Craig B site} since then i have had no problems with power.

rikshaman

do you have any scanned pics?

rikshaman

really? i thought VTC's just ticked is they were gone. SHows what I know~

Greeny

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Grounding the vtc's helped my lower rpm band {idle to 3500 rpm} they were ticking really bad , sounded like a diesel

Cliff Clavin

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Of the magazine articles?

No, I don't have a scanner. I have the magazines here in my office, though. They were the only ones I could find referencing the VE 5-speed maxima from the early 90s. If anyone knows of any more magazine articles, let me know, I would like to have them for my collection.

BTW, the Maxima won the "showdown" with the SHO and the Camry SE 5-speed. The SHO posted a little better times (it does have 30 more hp) but it had the usual "unsophisticated" and "lacks the aura of greater refinement offered by it's two rivals" type of comments.

westy92max

what are the vtc's and what problems dis they give you!?

MrGone

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MrGone

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you know more than him.

MrGone

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bring it sunday
I have a scanner, oh wait


still I wanna read


yeap, but your top end went bye bye

bvtran

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211K on my VG. there are guys here with their 3rd gen running over 300k. generally speaking, if you took good care of your max, it should last you a lot longer than you think. most max engines that have maxed out last til at least 350K and above with the assumptions that they knew how to maintain their car.

MrGone

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I know a guy that had a 550k VG, and then a 450k VG, or maybe one was a VE, I dont remember, eitherway they were still working fine when he traded.

Greeny

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How do you know if he knows more than me. You do not even know me!

bhunter

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My 92 VE has 142K and smokes just a little and has other problems. All my posts are about it. My 93 VE has 158K and is perfect. It is all about care and use patterns.

THX

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There was a guy that said he had 560,000 on his VG in the main forum a couple months ago, but then he disappeared. Guess his car blew up with him in it.

super32

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I've about 170K on my Max
Only minor twitches in the AT... which scares me.
I'm not looking only to spend maintainance money on it as I am looking for a 5spd 3.5G dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn

3rdmaxse0

224k on my VE and hot rod it all the time only problems I had is a few sensors had failed and now in the rain it runs on 2 cyl but found out what it was (something stupid) I got full exhaust intake advanced timing pulley and non ticking vtc. bought my car 3 yrs ago next week w/ 168k on it and ran great tranny is just another story. ACT clutch didnt help much I thought i was cool cuz I could cherp threw the gears until I broke my tranny the fifth time.

ElVito1981

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my 92SE has almost 80K miles, i **** you not

Magnifico

i get mad whenever my friends who have only driven ****ty fords and such act like my cars about to die tomorrow when they see that it has almost 140k

Greeny

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Lucky you!!!

Boosted Maxima

89 Maxima SOHC 5speed.
Bought it last year for 1000.00 put a few parts on it (rack,clutch,tune up parts ect) had 168,000 on it now has 194,000 *car is from CA*
No smoke,leaks,ticks nothing.
I'm a Buick GN guy so I'm attemting to put a GN turbo on it.(thread in Turbo section) We'll see what a 200,000mi 3.0 will do with some boost.

internetautomar

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My max has 129k
My camaro has 80k on the body
My blazer has 108k
my Voyager has 88k on the body
My old bonnie had 115k on it when I bought at the ripe old age of 4 (I think it's up to 170k now at 12 years old)

Mileage has very little to do with how worn an engine is. It is whether it was maintained properly. I've had a few low mileage cars that the engines were bad on them , and I've had lots of high mileage cars with great engines in them. It doesn't matter foriegn or domestic. It matters whether maintained or not ( and whether they were beaten on)