Props to ludicris for the write up on making your stock wheel graphite.

I did this project over yesterday and today and it looks pimp....i will post pics soon but for the meantime this is the best mod.....trust me!

The car rims look like skyline rims and it gives the car a great appearance.

This easily cost under $40 and really only took 7 or 8 hours. The hardest part was getting the finish off of a non OEM wheel....Last year I had discount tire put in a new wheel cause one of mine wasnt quite round (large pothole) so I bought a new one....well the paint on this was a ***** to get off...took me almost 5 hours and about 10 layers of aircraft stripper and a lotta scrapping off with my fingers....I guess they used a different paint.

Anyways if you have just stock wheels that have never been replaced this look is awesome...for pics see under how to's and once again MAD PROPS TO LUDA!!

second best mod under 50 bux is diamond cut clear corners. amber signals are just plain fugly.

red/clears for $5.

definately clear corners are the close 2nd appearance mod.....seriously....those are a MUST

How about a free mod?...

Corner Lamp Brighter Mod.....too simple

red/clear tails
DC corner lights
AE headlights
rewired lights

It can all be had for under $50 and your car will look a lot better

How about buying some silver paint aint make some interior parts silver... it makes your interior looking AWESOME when done right...

further... Mesh grill, clear corners, clear tails, modding the blinkers to light up soft with the normal lights, and blink brighter when they have to blink. You can do it by buying a few 5 + 21 watt fittings and connect the 5 watt connector to the original light wires, then connecting the 21 watt wire to the original blinker wires. Maybe some foil to tint your windows, if you can do it yourself you could keep it under 50 bucks I guess.

Good luck!

haha clears are . ambers are cool. yeah it looks cool and all but its almost what everyone does the first thing when the get their car. no thanks. ill keep my ambers.

I would not call the fronts amber, they are orange. The rears are amber. That is the main reason that I replaced the fronts, because they don't even match the tails. With clears in the front (yellow/amber bulbs....not orange), and amber stock tails....it looks cool.

NachoNYC making the parking lights brighter is by far the best free mod.....gotta love it

yea red clears look sooooo much better than stock. i think that is the best mod for under 50 bucks

Painting the wheels costs $16 and change(stripper, paint, clear coat). I suggest to anyone who's doing this to buy the stripper in the pour out can not the spray can. The stuff in the spray can isn't as strong.

I must admit the anthracite painted 5-spokes are pure pimp.

How about:

Smoked front ambers and amber cornering lights ($10):


Smoked reverse/turn signals and mostly shaved trunk ($5):


Silver/alum painted center stack with aluminum ball shifter ($23):


Red painted coil cover and handpolished timing chain cover/valve cover ($3):



Still $9 left.


Dave

how is it done?

I agree that most people on the org have red/clears but most maximas that are seen on the road usually have fugly altezzas (gen1). The red/clears are just an upgrade from fuglyness.

Clears would be the best mod..

SE wheels painted graphite look way too much like the graphite Jeep Liberty wheels. But customization is sweet so go paint some wheels! Cheap mods are almost always the best.

i'm buying some G35 rims off of somebody and thought of painting them. but i'm afraid that the graphite looks like the wheel is covered in brake dust. i saw some dirty *** wheels the other day and it looked like graphite color but turned out its covered in dust.

In response to Mr****s95SE about the clears, Ive honestly never seen another maxima on the road that has clears. Just because it may seem everyone on the forum has them, that doesnt really count since we all have maximas.

I agree, however they're more like $30, because the cheapest heat gun I've seen goes for $25 in home depot, provided of course one doesn't already own one.

which g35 rims? the 17s or the 18s. if it's the 18s do NOT paint them. they're god damn gorgeous.

By Far the best mod I did was shorten my shift **** with a hand saw by 2.5inchs and that was free but then i bought a nice looking round shift **** and it was st8.... Great cheap mod. Made the intereor look alot better then the stock truck drive shift ****

Definetly post up some pics dude did you leave the lip polished or paint the whole wheel?

I went back to amber bc i got bored of how my car looked...i dont think it looks bad at all...adds color



my friends think it looks like a ss tho

Whoaaa that is one big notebook car looks sexy as usual dave

It's just an OLD notebook he uses for his OBDII scanner thingy. That thing has 200mhz tops. The scan tool probably cost more than the laptop. I gotta get both btw.

...yeah no kidding.

yeah seriously... it looks good, but everyone on the maxima website has them, so F that

i got some 22k miles old 17s. i like them alot especially compared to the ugly rims that the previous owner put on the car.

yep! ambers all the way...

no need for a heat gun, its all about the oven. It really is 5 bucks. Plus taking the vinyl off the side pillars to reveal the original paint is another cheap good cosmetic mod imo.

I was pretty psyched when I realized I could clear out the tails so easyly. Couple hours and a piece of plastic that cost 5.97

How about tire valve caps with a chrome finish





Can't go wrong for $6.99

Are you talking crap on my 1996 Toshiba Satilite Pro 144mhz Pentium Like the others said, I use it primarily for my OBD II scanner.


Dave

... then I must have the best of all worlds - DC clears with amber LEDs


another cheap and obvious mod - shave that burger!

Ahh dang I wish my car came with amber lights.....JDM. Them smoked stock bumper lights look great.

The look with the clear corners is what attracted me to the maxima in the first place. I think it looks very clean. Once I have money left over from paying insurance, cellphone, cc's, AGH maybe I'll shell out the $40 for them.

Another cheap mod is the emblem shaving mod. Just some dental floss, wd40, and some patience.

wow, i see it all the time. Sometime its the only mod done on the whole car.

You do know there's no such thing as JDM for the Max right?

Dave, I got the 41 bucks i just need the instructions...and with the $9.00 left I will get me a 6-pack to do the mods...