Wat is a 95 se's top speed?

 

Around 130-140

 

dont even THINK of trying to go that fast.

 

why not? id do it some safe place like we have beach roads on LI that nobody uses till summer.... bout a 24 mile strip, no cops

 

hahha definitly not. 4th gen maxima goes high as 150 155mph. hal has went fast as 150 or 155. i think our maxima tops out at 157 i belive.

 

The speedo must not indicate correctly if our cars can't do more than 140....'cause I had it at over 130 indicated and was still moving pretty good. Someone must know what our cars can do. Did Car and Driver or Motor Trend ever do a top speed test?

 

u r on your own. think about every detail of what it takes first.

 

a 285 hp camaro goes about that fast. it weighs about the same as a maxima, but has 100 hp advantage and it looks at least as slippery as a maxima. i think 135 is a more realistic number. at those speeds it takes huge horsepower for each additional mph gain. also, dont trust your speedo at those speeds. its way off.

 

Its all about the gearing.

 

Hmmm...that's a negative GhostRider. Top speed has all most nothing to do with gearing...unless a car is geared so low that it redlines prior to hitting the top speed. But that's definitely not the case here.

I just noticed tonight that the rev limiter kicks in right at 100mph in 3rd gear (manual trans) so the speedo has to be indicating way off right?..'cause aren't most people hitting the revlimiter in 3rd at the end of the 1/4 mile for a N/A Max?

 

you might want to check my page for my top speed, and matt's for the top speed of a ve....i saw his today and it shocked the hell out of me. 155mph even. on a 93se.

 

no govener?

 

no governor on mine.

 

i have to find out for my self. but, i need some good tires at that speed. cant take the chance of fliping my car. i dont even know why my tires are rated for top speed.

 

Ive gone past 140... but Ive only got 130 on film. Click the link in my sig.

 

This has been discussed many times. Yes the speedometer is off but there are other ways of knowing how fast you are going(RSM). Also most cars dont have a govenor(SE and GLE) and the top speed does depend on gearing because i know my 5speed can go a lot faster top end than my auto could. Its the difference of an extra gear and shorter gears for that matter. Now it has been proven that on a dyno a max can get to upwards of 170 so on a straight away on the road who knows. Why dont you go try and and try not to get a ticket.

 

i have a 3rd gen..ask any third genners...we dont have a governor...

 

Wtf is the fastest a boosted person in a boosted max has gone? Anybody thats boosted ought to answer this....

 

On a dyno there is no aerodynamic drag to work against the car, so that 170 mph just ain't happening in the real world. 135-140 mph is the normal top speed for an N/A Maxima.

DW

 

I agree. That’s the law of physic you talking about. And that’s very true about any car.

I would say if you even get to 170 on the Expressway or any other road. your car RPM would be around 5000 or 6000, and if its windy out side. as soon as you get some aerodynamic against the car. your engine needs to keep up with that speed. so the RPM goes higher. and you might redline the engine.

 

Think about this guys, we all talk about "our cars", but even if you take stock 4th gen SE's, obviously some of these cars are getting a bit old now, and people treat them differently. So we might be able to talk about 95 SE top speed, or 97 GLE top speed, right off the assembly line. But there's not going to be any accuracy in making a statement like that now.

It's meaningless. If you want to know your max, take all that junk out of your trunk and those pathetic ghetto subwoofers and hit the road. Otherwise just be happy with knowing that depending on your car care ability you've probably got somwhere in the early to mid one hundreds.

 

200k miles plus easily, even if you drive it hard. I had a 220k mile Stanza, 180k mile Altima, 160k mile 240sx, and drove the hell out of them. Plus the fact my dad owned two of them before me, and never changes the oil, and my sister is still driving the Altima past 200k, and everyone of these vehicles passes emissions testing...so the engines must still be doing damn well.

Nissans...the hard you drive 'em the longer they last. (I personally haven't proven myself wrong on that one.)

 

Incase you didn't notice, the title of this thread was TOP SPEED dumbass

 

I dont care what any one says but over 140 is bullsh!t in a mild modified maxima with sock wieght.i had mines at like 137 and the needle was barly moving, in other words alomst toped out . 140 is possible if you got the road . And if you speedometer goes past 140 them it need to be calibrated.

 

Car and Driver (search Maxima articles on the internet) claimed 2000 Maxima top speed at 142. So 138 is probably a damn good estimate for a 1999, with only 17 less horsepower. Lower it, y-pipe, and Mevi, and you can probably claim you can break 140.

 

Are you sure about that?

The bigger the gears, that higher top speed you'll have but slower acceleration. The smaller gears you have, the faster acceleration and you'll have with a lower top speed.

 

It takes 8 times as much power to go twice the speed. So, theoretically, if it takes 20hp to go 60mph (that's just to overome the aerodynamic drag, not to accelerate), it will take 160hp to go 120mph.

 

Most people shift out of 3rd before hitting the rev limiter in a stock max. I've had my car to 140 when it was stock now I have a VI and I'm think about 145 give or take a few but no less than 143.

 

Look at cars tested in Car and Driver and Motor Trend, and notice when top speed is reached in 4th gear, that same speed is reached in 5th gear. For example, 5th gear and 6th gear in some Firebirds and Camaros are both overdrive gears, and dispite having different ratios the car reaches the same top speed in both gears. Now it might take a little bit longer to reach that speed in 6th vs 5th, but it proves gearing has little bearing on top speed. Now in the extreme cases of extremely overdriven wheels....you get the point.

 

The automatic maxima has taller gears than the 5spd, this is why it gets better gas milage. So theoreticaly it should have a higher top speed that the 5spd, but because of lack of hp it should not do over 140 stock (but anything is possible). I don't think a 5spd would do 170 on a dyno but I'm not positive, it just seems that if at 140 my RPM are at 6k the car won't have enough RPM before the rev limiter to reach 170. Of course my clutch could be slipping but I doubt it.

 

Theoretically with no aerodynamic resistance it'll go faster if indeed the final drive of the overdrive gear is taller...say on a dyno. But if anything an auto Maxima will have a slower top speed because it loses a few HP do to high drivetrain losses, but probably no more than a 1 or 2 mph difference.

 

On the Automatic Maximas, we only use 3 gears. Forth gear is an overdrive gear(only when you push overdrive button) and it allows the forth gear to open up. I have gone 120-124 mph still in third gear, I shut it down becuase I did not want to get in an accident, and it was really windy. With full exhaust I am sure you can hit 150 in an auto, I have no idea about 5-speeds. I have catback and pop-charger, and I am pretty sure I have no govener.

 

Sorry but some of you guys are morons with all your "theories". If you have an engineering degree, then maybe-maybe you have some credibility in a "theroy" otherwise you sound foolish. Unless you actually went out WOT until the car stopped accelerating how would you know. And yes the speedo is off a smidge at that speed (according to my GPS). But my 5 speed Maxima STOCK would easily pull 140 and then trickle past topping out around 142/143.

Also for you magazine racers-top speeds quoted in mags are not always correct. Many times they are only estimates.

 

Actually I do have a degree in engineering.

 

Ok this is my story...One day on my local highway after i sped by a radar trap at around 180km/h i decided to push my car a little further to make some distance so that i do not get arrested. I looked in my rearview at 200 and saw a car with HIDs right on my ***. Turns out to be a 2003 maxima...I assumed it was auto cause this was before the 6 speeds were due in canada...Anyway he pulls to the right lane and passes me as if i were a civic....then i top out at 220, and for some weird reason it seems he does too....220 was the limit and he nor I were going to go any faster.

Then on a separate night after i installed my intake, the max went to 230, it was clearly at least 10km/h past the 220km/h gauge and i know the gauge is not that innaccurate at high speeds considering the speeding ticket charges i obtained well into the 170s. Anyway this story translates that MY maxima can do 143MPH. (maybe with the wind at my back) I can say that yes i think i got lucky that day, and even i was in shock at the speed i was doing.


Disclaimer: This story is just a story and is may/may not be true. I do not promote high speed driving let alone racing. I more than likely have made this story up.

 

When Car and Driver puts down those top speed numbers in each gear, it's just to give you a better idea of how the car is geared. Most cars can't reach their top speed in their highest gear, usually 5th or 6th gear because the are overdrive gears. Just like the example you gave in the Camaros and Firebarids, they will never reach the top of 6th gear. The automatic Maxima has it's top gear, 4th, geared to reach 170 mph. It will never happen. And even thought the 5 speed is geared smaller or closer than the auto, the 5 speed will reach a higher top speed than the auto, because the gearing is working against the auto. Top speed is simply deteremnined by horsepower . . given that the car is geared optimally.

DW

 

...if I went over 80 mph in my 137,000 mi '95 Maxima, the damn thing would fall apart all over the highway

 

I don't get the point because overdrive gears are big and if any car had enough power to push the gearing, the car would go faster than if it was in the was just left in the gear that would use the power better.
Think about it.
Let's use the case of a 5 speed transmission. Normally a car wouldn't hit top speed if it was in the 5th gear like you described but the gear is still physically bigger. This goes back to what I described earlier.

 

Over drive is the 4th gear on Automatic transmision. if you turn it off you be in 3rd gear all the time. its good if you wan to race someone.

 

I know this already.