That's encouraging! Thank you.

 

Impressive, way to maintain that sucker. Original motor and VTCs? Are they quiet?

 

Nice, Wayne...Too bad you weren't at Maxus. No VE's to represent...

 

Very nice! Your maxima has a little more than twice as many miles as mine does. lol

 

Engine is original, vtc's were replaced by the original owner @ 140k. They clack intermittently now.

 

Working 7 days a week made the trip kinda "not possible" this year.

 

how bout if it's in your backyard next year? there's been speak of Asheville NC....

o and congrats on getting that landmark.... maybe 350k soon? what's your miles/year?

 

:yawn: wake me up at 500k

 

mines at 143k, original engine + vtcs.. no clack.

 

maybe the OP was a psychic/premonissionist and knew to change the oil every 500 miles?

 

Mines at 117, I repaired the VTCs a year ago. I'll probably replace chain tensioners at 125.

 

i dont get it wen do you start to really hear the vtcs
becuase i have 106k n no sound

 

i think it really depends on what sort of oil change regimen the previous owner had. using cheapo oil, cheapo filters, not changing often enough, will cause the VTCs to clack earlier in life. so as long as yours are quiet, keep the oil flowing and drive happy

 

DATS RIGHT MAXIMA FOR LIFE

 

At my current mileage rate as of late, I will be there soon

 

wow, um... drunk much?

 

Yeah, VEs are so unreliable, they can't make it to -3 miles.

Nice Greeny, take a pic in the palindrome mileage.

Also, an airplane pilot once said "If people took care of their cars like pilots did of their planes, it will last them a long time."

It's good to be a Maxima Veteran, huh?

 

Yeah, I miss my Max.... It was a youngster next to yours

 

You got 482 miles on half a tank? Now that is fuel economy!

 

the body on my '93 probably has less than yours cuz the last time i saw about 260k miles on my vg was aug. 7, 2005 then i swapped in the a 105k mile vg and has put about 27k since aug. of '05. so its about 10k+ miles less than max. damn these cars last forever. i love it!

 

 

wow, who's car is that?

 

Think really hard......after you put the bong down..

 

i got 175,xxxkms on mine, bit of a vtc clack on startup when i bought it, put mobil1 5w30 and havent heard them since, id rebuild them but most people say it comes back so whats the point, maybe for pwr gain? i duno, oh and we still got the oringinal oil filters here(canada) the ones that were discontinued, my buddy that runs a mr lube stocks them even, its sweet

or maybe its old stock, i wonder now.. not like it matters, only one other ve in the city, hell in manitoba that i know of

 

diffrent camera, almost 1k mile difference,


plus, I haven't smoked in almost six months I hope this isn't permanent

 

What?

It's a 10,000 mile difference from the original post, and yes, it was taken with my Canon A590is, i hate lugging around the xti.

 

lol, smoke damage is for life .., no worries tho it only effects short term memory, soon you will have the memory of a gold fish, haha, im just messin

 

mmm... i see, you bumped your old thread :
nm, then
(see, I was thinking hard, just focusing on the wrong thing...)

 

 

Hah, who else has a 330k+ VE on the board? Stoned or not, it has to be Greeny.

 

Teh ve mastah!!

 

I suspect reverse odometer fraud

 

lol Naw man, it's the real thing...

I'm the first to admit these engines are a little quirky and hard to work on if you don't know what makes them "tick" so to speak. but once you get in tune with all the ve's idiosyncrasies, they really are a great and reliable engine.

 

Great engine lies below the quirk, I think only a select group realize that, seems like too much "work" to set them straight; but so rewarding if treated correctly, one of the tightest engine's I've felt before. I can't wait to get my spare set of VTC's in there and finish off my LIM/TB boring; that's probably all the mod's I'll do engine wise so lets hope it lasts 170k more miles of modded VE goodness

 

VE's torque band>*

I love it..

 

just wait until you have the 5spd on there...... you gonna do the VI swap too?

 

already have a bored VIM on there, just gotta hook up the vacuum/5-spd ECU.

 

What are you talking about man? Everybody realizes that. And yeah, swapping engines, rebuilding or grounding VTCs every 20k miles, replacing knock sensors, coil packs, buying toyota filters and worrying that you might hit a rock and smash that horribly located filter destroying the engine is a lot to worry and think about compared to waiting until it's time to throw another timing belt on the VG.

 

Look man, we all know your hate for the ve engine(me more than most, from all your deleted posts talking sheit about the ve) but the point pearl and i are making is the ve is just as a reliable engine as the vg, as long as you know how to diagnose and fix it's issues.

BTW, what the hell is the vg so freaking great for anyway?..virtually inaccessible timing belt, which if it breaks will destroy the engine, crappy oem injectors that fail well before a ve injector even gets broke in. , yeah, we all love replacing injectors @ $100 bucks a pop X6..Yet my first injector to go out was at over 300k(btw, the same injector was used in the vq series engine)..here, let me go on some more...75% of the vg's out there are mated to the exclusive vg crapomatic autofailic transmission. We all love to replace/rebuild these @ $1200 bucks a pop, yet the ve auto is good for well over 200k without any problems. Then lets talk about the ve vs.vg from a performance standpoint...yeah, we all know where this will go..

Then we talk about $100+ tune up costs on a vg ( plug wires $50<--if you get the cheap crap/ plugs $20/ Rotor cap $25/button $5-10) Yet the ve just needs plugs.

Filter location? c'mon dude, i am so low i can literally push a aluminum drink can on it's side around with my control arms, yet i have never dented a oil filter.

Don't start no sheit about the ve by comparing it to the vg..