zzeeoo

Anyone race a legend yet? I don't race but my friend has a 93 auto Legend and wants to race me. I have a 5spd maxima. Do I have a chance of betting him? Welps, I wanted to know some inputs before I race him, any will be fine.

zzeeoo

We are both stock!!

BriGuyMax

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I used to own a legend.....unless he has a Legend GS 6-speed manual...which he doesn't, and you don't miss gears....you'll most likely smoke him.....my Max is MUCH faster than my old legend was.

Nealoc187

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you will annihilate him... only the 6 Speed GS will give you a run...

Neal

_DRU_

i used to have a 92 with the type I engine. it was a tank off the line but was pretty strong on highway battles. as for your friends 93, he may have the type II with an extra 30hp over the type I. i think you will take him off the line but he might catch up, thats how my race was when i raced my friends 5spd max. he would take me by 1.5-2 car lengths but i would pass by 60ish mph. give it a try...

pimp

Lest we forget a 6 speed coupe also that will smoke your grocery.. oops, I mean Maximas.

BrianV

iTrader: (9)

Ahh I can answer this one. This girl I'm seeing has like a 92-93 Legend, the one with the 220-230 HP motor. Although it has 140K miles that thing runs so smooth. Anyways off the line it's no match for the Maxima. However, one time my other friend was driving it on the highway and it boned out pretty good, I caught up shortly, but still I didn't smoke it just gradually pulled.

Another example:

One time I was driving home and she decided to bone out. I was going 15 and just shifted into second, so at around 20 MPH I gunned it after her in second. So my engine wasn't in the power band. She pulled quite a bit away from me but by third I rocketed by.

Lito

I own a 91 Legend 158k miles Auto 4 door(runs great though).
I also own a 96 Maxima 71k miles Auto.

Don't need to wory about it, you will smoke him easy. And my is an Automatic...Unless he has a Type II engine, that is a whole another story.

LucentAUTO

u will win no doubt. legend was like the current RL series. very heavy car. just smoke him..

Dv8

I dont know what Legends you guys have been racing, but maximas dont have a good time around THIS legend owner.

I have an Auto Legend 91 type II although the extra 30 ponies dont really do much over the type 1. i wish i had a 5spd or the 6spd, but i cant have it all.

All in all the races would be pretty close unless u match up an SE manual 222hp max to an auto legend, the max would naturaly win.

match up auto to auto and manual to manual of any year and youll see a close battle.

didnt you guys run 190hp previous to the newest max?

~Hybrid

Gary95

I think the Legend coupe style is really sharp and masculine. But what a heavy inefficient car! If it was more like the Maxima in performance and fuel economy, I'd have picked up one of the last years of Legend coupe.

Did anyone here ever drive the GS model with 6 speed?

_DRU_

did you do an engine swap or something, because to the best of my knowledge, the type II's didnt come out til 93. i used to have a 92 auto coupe and it was a type I.

Dv8

Yea ive done a transplant.

I just broke into the 13's

man i am so excited.


the legend is quite heavy, however the legends engine is quite the work horse. at the track last night i say a previous than recent max in auto trim running 15.7 which is not bad. a dissapointment was a new max se 5spd with stillen kit and mods only pulling 15.1, which is to my knowlege what the car should be running stock off the show room floor.

~Hybrid

_DRU_

wow, when i used to have my legend, 6+ months ago, i rarely saw anyone running in the 13's, especially an auto. there was just no aftermarket support. you are sort of like "Don in Texas", a member here running all motor in the 12's, i think...may i ask what you have under the hood? any custom work or all bolt-ons? btw, are you a part of the legends forums? i used to be on there a lot when i had my legend and "Dv8" sounds really familiar...

Dv8

Yea im DV8 at the forums

Ive installed a type II, which is really not much more powerfull in auto sedan form than a type I

CAI, Greddy exaust, Chip and Apexi SAFC----85 shot NOS

and a couple of trade secrets to launch a 3720 lbs car into the 13's

check here for a timeslip

http://forums.legend.org//Forum1/HTML/010337.html

~Hybrid

vmok

looked at the timeslip... that's pretty damn awesome. any big sedan getting into the 13's... especially an auto and what looks to be a daily driver on street tires... is pretty bad****...

-V

1997 Maxima SE

I always lose to my freinds legend... didn't beleive that his auto broke loos when it shifted to second but a ride in that thing showed that he did it w/o effort. I know im a way better launcher than him cuz he can never catch me down the 1/8th till the very end when I shift into the autos 3rd, thing is you dont win the race unless you are ahead at the end of the race. stupid legend