What the hecks do you mean? I cant find anything about that.

 

I'm happy having the best of both worlds. The shell of my 91VG, with the heart of my 92VE. I loved my VG equally as much as my VE.

 

early airbags are not as safe as a modern airbag.
wearing your seatbelt is 90% as effective and the airbag to me is just more weight on the car. I also prefer the VE w/o ABS, though I add the weight of a sunroof
of course what I drive now, seriously outweighs a VE

 

oh mannnnn... I <3 My 4-Wheel Disc ABS vs. My cousins 4-wheel disc non ABS. Both with Hawks. Don't know if I would want to go back to a non-ABS car. If I slam on the brakes from like 70-0 you can literally feel your internal organs slosh forward... can't wait to get a BBK.

 

i like ABS it saved me exactly 6 times in snow.....it didn't let my car skid...

 

my brakes are so weak i can't lock them up even without ABS.... sticky tires are partially to blame for that as well... ionno i've heard that for a performance driver abs is troublesome when trying to hit your brakepoints and stuff

 

Every time I turned around my tires were locking up on my GXE. Then we did a rear disc swap on it and they don't lock up, but the pedal responsiveness and overall braking power is nowhere NEAR as powerful as mine, only difference is the ABS in our setups.

 

my problem is that my front rotors are 1.5mm under the wear limit.....

but the new rotors are going on out of my upcoming paycheck.... 11.65" rotors ftw

but that's a bit outside the realm of 89-94......

i think combining parts off different years is best... so you can have the z31 rear discs

 

definitely on my tadoo list. Right after the five speed swap.

 

i prefer doing that swap on an 89/90 cuz you don't have to worry about finding the brackets and pulling the spindle and those RUSTY damn bolts... you just nab the tqmembers/calipers/ebrake off a 91+ and you're set.

 

Riiiiiiiiight....

 

mine. 190hp, 5spd, reliable as ****. and it keeps my 03 clean during the winter. can it get any better?

 

u use 3rd gen to keep clean ur 03...cumon 3rd gens r not that much as they r getting older u should be taking care of them more lol jus jk.....well 3rd gens ARE reliable if u keep them tuned...

 

93 for me. jus because my dads 94 didnt have leather seats, and my GXE, well, nuff said.

 

try a better suspension first.

 

younoliketokicoeibach?!

 

Don't forget that I have 15 year old suspension.
oh, and no Hawks in the rear, front only.
and some Wearever brand rotors.

 

You never put Hawks in the rear!? I thought you got another pair off of shox.com a while back.

Yeah, but I've had the hawks long before I dropped my car.

 

I do, but just because the brands are good doesn't mean the parts still are.
I have a pair of tokico rears sitting by my front door with ~10k on them. 1 is already blown.

 

hmm, the guy I bought them from had only about 7k on them, now I put like another three or so. I push down on my car from the outside on all four corners and there is absolutely no play and it rises back up immediately for what little tiny bit it goes down.

 

i like this one


Third-Generation Maxima: 1989 to 1994

If there's one thing the 810 and Maxima hadn't been until this Third generation, that thing was beautiful. The new 1989 Maxima sedan was downright pretty. And it was bigger. But it was no longer available as a station wagon.

"The new Maxima was designed with the U.S. market in mind," wrote Road & Track at its introduction. "In fact approximately 90 percent of total production is expected to be exported to Yankee shores. Unencumbered by Japanese size requirements and tax penalties, Nissan's designers had the flexibility to create a substantially larger Maxima. Compared with last year's car, it's 6.3 inches longer, 2.4 inches wider and has nearly 4 inches more wheelbase. 'We first asked ourselves what interior dimensions would be necessary to provide sufficient space for five American adults to ride in comfort,' says Hiroyuki Shiratori, Nissan's senior manager, product planning and marketing group No. 3. And you know, when the senior manager [of] product planning and marketing group No. 3 talks, people listen."

Coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally), the '89 Maxima's 104.3-inch wheelbase was identical to that of the original '77 810's. But the '89 Maxima, at 187.6 inches from nose to tail, was just over 4 inches longer overall than its ancestor.

Despite the growth in size, this Maxima carried over much of the previous-generation Maxima's established engineering. The suspension consisted of struts both fore and aft, and the 3.0-liter V6 still had SOHC heads and fed either a four-speed automatic or five-speed manual transaxle. The engine did get a boost up to 160 hp, and an electronic antilock braking system was available on the SE's four discs (GXE models reverted to rear drums). It was detail and tuning changes combined with radically improved ergonomics and appearance that made this Maxima a car Nissan could call a "Four-Door Sports Car." In fact, the carmaker called it the "Four-Door Sports Car" so often that it put little "4DSC" stickers on the side glass.

"The interior is where this sport sedan differs from the competition," enthused Road & Track about the '89 Maxima SE. "Immediately commanding attention are the gauges. On the Maxima SE model, they have a vintage-car look with white faces and black markings, a treatment that's different yet doesn't compromise readability…. When darkness falls and the instrument panel lights come on, the gauges assume a negative image — white markings against black backgrounds. In either mode, they're easy on the eyes."

Car and Driver rounded up six import sedans for a comparison test and rated the '89 Maxima SE "a strong fourth, just one point out of third and two points out of second." Where did it come up short? "Unfortunately," the magazine concluded, "the Maxima's chassis isn't as capable as its drivetrain. Our Maxima, fitted with 205/60HR15 Toyo tires, could do no better than 0.76G on the skid pad, a mediocre performance for a modern sport sedan. Moreover, the suspension is on the soft side, requiring a gentle touch at the wheel to keep the car from bobbing around." The magazine also measured its Maxima SE running to 60 mph in 8.8 seconds and turning the quarter-mile in 16.5 seconds at 84 mph.

With this Maxima a solid hit for Nissan, it was not surprising that only a few trim changes were made to the car for 1990. The Maxima's sideview mirrors were slightly redesigned for 1991, and there was another round of trim changes, but that was about it.

A new grille and minor trim changes were part of the 1992 Maxima. But the big news that year was the adoption of new aluminum DOHC heads for the iron-block 3.0-liter V6 on SE models — putting four valves over every cylinder. That change pumped output up to 190 hp and the SE's suspension was tweaked to make the best use of it. Those changes vaulted the Maxima SE to the top of Car and Driver's desirability list — in a three-car comparison with Toyota's Camry SE sedan and Ford's Taurus SHO, the Maxima SE won. "The SE romps from zero to 60 in 7 seconds flat," Car and Driver gushed, "and fails to match the SHO's 141-mph top speed by only four mph. Its braking and road-holding figures wind up within a hair-split of the others, and they all tied at 20 mpg on a rollercoastering Ohio trip."

Nissan celebrated the Maxima SE's new dominance by installing a standard driver-side airbag in the car for 1993. Otherwise the status quo was maintained. The company didn't change much about the car for 1994, either.

Though it was at the end of its production life, this generation of Maxima was still attractive and beloved by many buyers. But the world marches on and there was a new Maxima coming.

 

I own an '89 Max, now with 451,000 miles, and still going. Got the usual body rot in places, and in need of a wiring harness for a tranny shift problem, but i love this gen car. Tan w/black on black interior, lots of options that came w/the car, along with some upgrades from me. I would love to dump the new (2009) engine,cvt tranny, and electronics in this car, and redo the body. Maybe I should just buy the 2009??, but I love the 3rd gen body style.

 

so these early maximas have a common injector problem i see? i noticed the car started to buck real bad...alsmost like it was cutting fuel...then it would pick back up again...i kind of figured it was the injectors but wasnt sure...after a recent tune up it continued to do it so i figured it has to be them....great forum with lots of good info

 

 

personally, I like the styling of the 92-94 SE the best. I prefer the grill and lights.

I also like having a 92 because I have no airbag. I guess you could take the airbag out of the 93-94, but I am fond of my s13 steering wheel and it there weren't any extra wires to mess with.

 

i had one of the best ever '83 max(810). also a 91 vg before. got to go with 93Se(ve) like this one.
V V V V V

 

I got a 93 SE with a 5 speed. 172k on the odo. Runs like a champ. At times. I try to keep the maintenance up on it and repair anything that breaks. I got the car on a steal from my bro. for 1000. Needed a few things. I get 29 mpg on it and drive it everyday to work and back.

I like the LSD, DOHC, and sunroof.

I don't like the fact no one makes aftermarket taillights.

 

well

kzoosho kindof does....

but even if someone did make aftermarket tails 90% of aftermarket tails have red blinkers which are about as as can be. more like

 

84 was better
mostly because I had one of the final ones off the assembly line that were RWD.

 

and you SOLD IT? shame on j00. it could have been on the .org if you still had it. which would be pimp.

 

No j00 jokes please. The .org is an equal opportunity car club.

 

I love my 94 se ve. Thats all i have to say about that.

 

 

WHAT?

 

i see what you did there

just curious if your registration for your car changed to say 92 or if it still says 91?

 

I take it you have never seen forrest gump?

 

OWNLY IUN PAAARTS.

 

heh, ok ic



What you posted was an exact quote from tom hanks in the movie..

 

Oooohhh kaeee. Alright i'll stop now.

 

i got it with a rod knock, drove it for a year w/o adding or changing the oil. junked it because one of the injectors started to leak. That was back in 1995/6.