oTranscendental

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When you hit 70MPH you are exactly at 3000RPM. Thats in my case anyway.
I wonder if each mod affects the rpm/mph ratio.

SteVTEC

If your mod affects the gear ratio, yes. Otherwise no. The only thing that would do that is going to non-factory tire diameters.

i30ds

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THANK YOU..... I can't believe how many people think that the sticker in the driver's door area is the actual weight of the vehicle!! I got into an arguement with some little dumb **** with a Honda Civic about this. It is the MAXIMUM vehicle weight rating (including weight of car). So 1200 lbs. of people and other crap seems pretty acurate.

toofast240

Kevlo,

Look it up. You will find stats ranging from 6 flat for the type s all the way up to 7.1 for the base. Most sites that I read showed the bosxter type s 0 - 60 around 6 - 6.6(as per porsche). Quarters go from 14 flat on up to 16's! I was shocked when I looked it up. Appearantly, they are just not that impressive for a porsche.

DAVE Sz

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My fully loaded 1996 SE auto(leather, roof, bose) all the crap except ABS hits 60mph in 6.99-7.1. That's with a y-pipe, APEX WS, and a home made hybrid intake. My 6'2" 250lb *** is in there too along with a 160ish lb buddy of mine. I think I have the video. This is just launching from regular idle.

ogparjay

so how does the torque converter upgrade with the valvebody compare to the 5spd?

Cool J

how was the 0 - 60 time measured?

Midknight MAXX

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6 spd Boxster S per Porsche:

From HERE

SteVTEC

LOL, this is almost as bad as the Honda guys. They race against a significantly quicker car once, just assume that the other person was driving the car to its full potential, don't do too badly, and then double ASSume that their car is as quick as the other car when it just isn't

I really really really hate magazine racing too, but due to the lack of any other convenient data, here are some stats on the Boxster.

http://www.autosite.com/new/grabbag/perform/3814.asp

The Boxster S will do low-5's to 60mph, and high-13's 1/4 mile times. That's the 6spd. And even the automatic will do high-5's and low-14's. Your Maxima with those mods is not going to touch that. Or maybe it was a riced out Porsche and really had the base 2.5/2.7L engine. That would be more believeable.

MaxSpeedSE

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Anyone know the web site that you can enter your 1/8 ET and MPH and it till estamate your 0-60 times, for people that want to know there current 0-60?

-Chris

SteVTEC

Stuff like that isn't going to be very accurate because it doesn't take gearing or anything else into account. It's just an extrapolation. Even a G-tech would probably be more accurate as long as you have a flat piece of road to work with. 0-60 is something that isn't easily and accurately measured by regular folks. Track 1/8th and 1/4 mile times are about as good as it gets.

CystumMax

I have noitice it when the out side temp is around 70's my car always shift above 6k RPM when I WOT. I have 99 GLE(auto), the Tranny has a hard kick to it. it almost feels like the VB mod is installed in it. I don't have the VB mod. But when it gets really worm out side, the tranny becomes slow, and it shifts much quicker, around 5500 RPM. Honestly I don't care how much slower for faster my car is from a SE. All i know is that, when I press my gas pedal to the floor, my speed OdM gets to 60 fast enough. I am about 185 pound, I have heavy system in the trunk. I like the way my car drives.

ChiTown Max

My 95 GXE 5sp with 122K miles and a badly slipping clutch does it in about 6.9-7.1, so with a good clutch, it should be back down to the low-mid 6's. The bad clutch is costing me about .5-.75 seconds between 1st and 2nd gear shifts.....

DAVE Sz

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Well, I put the video on my PC and went to work. Started counting when I saw the car start to jerk or when the speedo started moving and stopped at 60.

nissanguy

I will check if my RPM's are at Exactly at 3000 while going 70 mph with my 5 speed, but as far as a boxster S, they will do mid 5's to 60, you have to consider when most of these magazines test their cars, they are loaded with gas, and some testing equipment and average of 180-200lb driver.

I look at it this way, with regards to my maxima, imagine putting 17 one gallons of milk in the trunk and having like 1.5 gallons of gas left in your tank, that is how much the full tank would weigh.

Now if I went out and ran 0-60 and it had like 1 gallon of gas left and I weigh 160lbs, I would have an advantage with weigh and you can feel the difference.

I usually see car and drivers testing numbers as most reliable, I guess its because I ve been reading it since 81.

SteVTEC

C&D only managed a 15.0 out of the new 6g maxima 6spd.

http://www.autosite.com/new/grabbag/perform/3422.asp

One or two people here have gotten 14.4-14.6, and even the automatic guys have done that well repeatedly also.

I take mag times like a grain of salt and only use them for a very loose point of reference. Sometimes it's all you have to go by in which case it's better than nothing, but there are still much better ways to analyze and compare cars. You just need access to the right data.

es_amixam

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This site http://www.nissanx.com/old/htdocs/buy.html has a few different tests of the Maxima, both auto and manual. Here are some 0-60 times:

Car and Driver:
95 SE 5-speed when new: 6.7 sec (topped out at 137 mph)
Same car as above after 40k miles and new clutch: 6.6 sec (top speed now 140 mph)
95 SE auto: 7.3 sec
95 GXE auto: 8.1 sec (seems to be on the slow side)
98 SE auto 8.1 sec

One point to keep in mind is that not every car will perform the same. Some cars run may run stronger than others. Notice the .8 sec spread in the two auto 95s. So two different cars, even if they are driven the same by the same driver may put out different performance numbers.

SteVTEC

That's another myth, imho. These cars will perform and dyno very consistently. There is NO WAY the "true" performance of cars coming off an assembly line are going to vary almost a full second. What you're seeing is different magazines testing with different drivers and different test conditions and different facilities and different pretty much everything. All of that variability adds up. The range of times you'll see will in fact vary by almost a full second, but it's due to all of that variability not associated with the car.

Somebody who knows how to shift and launch extremely and who has a favorable track and weather can run a 14.7. A novice might run a 15.6 in the same car. Ditto for the autos. Stock times are as good as 15.5-15.6 for somebody that really nails the launch and shifts manually. A novice that blows the launch and lets it autoshift might get a 16.2 all in the same car.

It's not the cars. It's everything else.

toofast240

Don't get me wrong, I don't claim to be faster than a type s boxter. I just claim to be faster than that one with that driver on that day. I have been racing cars for 15 yrs now and know a thing or two about racing. I also know when I hear a gear redline and a hard shift following. The guy was racing. Like I said, I don't know how good of a driver he is because I was paying more attention to my car. The boxter said type s and had the nice brake kit. Could have been a base boxter modified, but I doubt it. I think this was the guys mid life crisis car and he didn't know the cars limits. However, for comparison purposes, I could see how a stock max 5 speed could run in the mid 6's.

As for your data, are you sure your data is for the 01 boxter type s or is it the 04. Please verify for me this data because everywhere I looked it was a 6 - 6.5 with a 14 in the quarter. I would be interested to know some true numbers on this car. I also remember the commercials stating these numbers as I remember it being slower than a wrx in a 0-60 race, but the same in a quarter mile race. Anyway, I would like to know. Please double check on the 01 boxter and if you find data different to mine, let me know where. Thanks.

SteVTEC

i posted the link to where I got the data from. just click on it.

osclude

Ok check out this link it has some good data.

http://www.autosite.com/new/grabbag/perform/3422.asp

SteVTEC

I already did check it out. Post #56

http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...9&postcount=56

toofast240

Thanks for the links!

Corey_25

June 1995 - Car and Driver 0-60: 7.3
1/4: 15.9@87
123 mph top speed
automatic

DenimDan

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The real question is, why would you want to go to redline. The power band is between 3000 and 5500. The hp drops off above 5500. I will say that i have a 95 GLE and I seem to have a pretty quick upshifting auto tranny, however it does lag downshifting especially on the highway. This lag almost allowed a civic si to get by me. I have used a stopwatch to time my 0-60 and it might be off by a few tenths of a second but i got 6.99 seconds, so i will add a couple of tenths of a second and say my car did it in 7.2.

Midknight MAXX

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Well in a 5spd redlining it in first sets up the 2nd by not dropping out of the power band. I'm sure it's something similar in a auto. Never owned one .