I just came across this page and saw this 94 GXE. Obviously these pics must have been taken when the car was brand new...I wonder if I can ever get my car to look that new again
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/01HJF223350211.html
There's something different about this max...Can you see what I'm talking about in these pics?
you get two guesses and the second one doesnt count.

 

black door moulding or whatever its

 

well im noticing alot more than 2 things...
1) its clean
2) no plates
3) black side moldings
4) the car is running
5) its not brand new...97K miles
6) thats one dam clean engine bay

 

also i see chrome fender tips

 

You know what, you're right. I looked at it and thought it said 7,778. Ya the thing I noticed was the black molding, and it kinda looks like black window trim too Car is in nice shape tho

 

Things that I notice is that the O/D light is on the gauge verses how it's next to airbag thing, maybe it's an SE thing. The door mouldings and unpainted side moulding. The door mouldings are soo ugly I hate those things. Also in the engine bay the acc valve or whatever you call it on top of the EGR vlave is kinda an army color verses the brass color of mine.

 

Kinda random, but I just realized that the font on the 89-91 GXE gauges are different on the 92-94 GXE gauges!

BTW: Pics were found HERE

 

am i the only one that saw this odd thing...

ok in the engine bay.. on the right of the intake.. taht little copper colored thing that is holding a hose.... do all the max's of that year have that?.. i dont have it

 

Between the intake manifold and the intake tract just to the upper left of the Battery with two plug-wire looking cables coming out of it?

Never seen it before in my life (I have a manual).

 

I looked at that thing a million times and I didnt think about mentioning it. I had to go look at my car for it too but its not there.

 

i dont have that either..

 

Yup.. I was going to mention the valve on the manifold too... I wondered if it was an ABS thing, but it doesn't have ABS.

another weird thing is that it's got the SE paint job.. black strip on the bottom- unless that was on all champagne maxes (Brandon's 90GXE has that also)..

Also note the small aluminum pipe that runs across the firewall and to somewhere near the MAFS.

?????

I wonder if it's a CA emissions thing.

 

After showing that to Kaleb, he confirmed the CA thing.

those parts ONLY came on 94 Maximas with CA emissions. They were on VGs and VEs.

 

oh alright.. i was gonna say I'm in cali and i dont have that, but then its 94 only.. got it..

 

never seen a cleaner max

 

http://www.ee.utulsa.edu/~mblehm/pic...g/DSC00025.JPG

how about that?

 

u missed a spot matt

 

yah i have a champagne max, and i have that black strip thing.. i guess its on all champange max's

i think that small aluminum pipe is the ac line

 

If I could find a 5spd VE that clean.....I'd snap it up in an instant!!! Anyone have one that clean for sale (hopeful quiver in voice)?

 

another weird thing is that it's got the SE paint job.. black strip on the bottom- unless that was on all champagne maxes (Brandon's 90GXE has that also)

I have an 89 GXE thats pearl white with the black strip on the bottom

 

looks nice Matt
sorry to hear that your vacuum cleaner broke j/k

are you gonna put your Z seats in this car? if not, you should do someting about that leather

 

hmmm...something missing..dunno what though.

 

I think milk crates should do the trick. Damn Matt, you're a slob j/l

 

heheh I haven't vacuumed the car since I bought it... well strike that. Kelly did in November for me. she dumped a Crappuchino in the pass floorboard and I made her shampoo the carpets to clean it up

still smells like chocolate on really hot days. guess it could be worse.



But yes, Z seats will be going in sometime before long. I'm goign to try and find a better way than I did last time, as the brackets weren't very pretty. going to have to weld new brackets. no big deal, but it's very time consuming.

Maximus... if there was a VE 5 spd out there that clean, I would have bought it instead of this beat up POS! believe me... I had $9k sitting in the bank for 4 months trying to find one between chicago and Houston. never happened.

 

Hmm.. always wondered what the floorboards looked like. What's all that hardware at the base of the e-brake handle?

 

seat belt crap.. its all under the center console. all that stuff is pretty easy to take out, 6 screws for the center console heh. i just fit an inverter in the console gotta fit some cupholders in there too i think..

 

No I mean those 2 funny white and pink discs just behind it...

 

yup thats part of the seatbelt stuff.. the two spools the belts wrap around

 

the pink and white crap are the ratchet assemblies for the seat belt. when you unbuckle the seatbelt, there's a spring in there that wraps the belt around inside those assemblies (like a tape measure). when you pull them out too fast or tilt the car, or otherwise move some parts inside it, the ratchets lock, preventing the belt from coming out... this is what glues you in place if you're evern in a wreck. handy little guys, aren't they?

if you could see the bottom of them, the colors are opposite on the other side. each side (left and right) have a white end and a pink end. since they're designed to face opposite directions, you have pink on top on one, and white on top on the other.

but simply said, they're part of the seat belt mechanism.

 

I know how hard 5 speed VE's are to find, I had to drive 2 hours for mine after I wrecked my 5 speed VG two years ago. What's crazy though is that my friend came down last weekend from school to look for a new car, and we just went out to a dealer and bought a near perfect dark blue 93 SE 5 speed - no scratches, dings, fully-functioning VTC's, etc.. All for only $4300.

 

You sure are getting desprite with stripping wieght off your max for racing

 

Ahh... okay! I was just used to the idea of those things being in the side pillars or rocker area

 

LOL!!
screw that.. I still pull 14s with it all in there. but then again, that crap only takes about 45 min to remove.. I might oughta pull it all out one night and see how I do. I bet if I add all the weight back on in stickers, I'll be running 12s easy.

 

I just thought of a dumb idea...I wounder what it would look like with a 4th gen center console!! probably not possible, but it would be cool to have real cupholders

 

hmm.. not too sure what the 4th gen console looks like, but i bet it wouldnt fit. or at least a lot of custom fitting..

 

You're probably right

 

first question is why the hell would you install a big chunk of cheap looking, squeaky plastic just for some cupholders?

If you want something that annoying, you can just get a 7 yr old little bro/sis to ride shotgun and hold your drinks for you.

 

Been there tryed that didn't work

 

this is true, but the cheap looking, squeaky plastic wont drink my drinks when Im not looking

 

that's why you duct tape their mount shut.