Ive been thinking about doin the same....that or a NX

 

i'd love to have an egg with a VE in it or just put a VE in my SE-R. then my beater would be faster than the maxima.

 

I will drive this car into the ground and rebuild it before I let it go. I plan on buying a much nicer car in a few years but I will keep the Max as my toy/project.

 

when i'm done with college, I'm going to keep the car for a bit and buy some realestate..and then probably some nice bmw...probably a used m5 because I like the old form so much. Or a stick mercedes.

 

I guess you are what they call a mature student, given that your profile says you are 59.

 

yeah i think i remember tilley telling me you had one.... i love that car, and i know its fast for what it is, but after driving my maxima, the se-r feels like a dog..... i can get a turbo kit for it for 400.... but the problem is i bought it to be more economical than the max for my 25 mile commute to school (one way).... but bijan, anything with an sr20 is fun to drive, although i am more fond of the sentras than the nx2000's.... its all good though!

edit: and tilley wants to make some b13 (any b13, not necessarily my sentra) vq-powered......

 

yeah and his car is from 2050

 

I think he meant that is the year he expects to graduate from college.

 

I'll keep my Maxima forever. I just payed off my Maxima and bought a Titan. I love the feeling of being high in the truck one minute and then practically sitting on the ground in the Maxima the next.

Maxima = Daily work commute/beater
Titan = Fun vehicle/gas guzzler

 

My car get me from point a to b with a decent mix of comfort/speed. However once finances allow, it will be gone.

 

for $400?! if so I'll buy it!

 

whatever i can sell my max for right now, its not worth all the time i have spent on it. Im keeping it till the end also! There will be nothing more beautiful than a 97 maxima 20yrs old and still looking gewd.

 

lol it needs a new turbo, but i can get one for i think around 200 for a ball bearing... the kit is the one tilley had on his when he ran a 12.57 on stock internals if you are serious i can ask the guy if he still has it....

 

I spent a ton of money on cars, I've probably wasted 13,000 or more on cars. In reality I should've listened to my father and used it for a condo as a downpayment, and lease it out. Maybe it's something to think about for everyone else who's investing in a car which depreciates so fast. I'm preaching like an old man to you hahaha..**** I'm getting old...

 

BlackbirdVQ beat ya to the VQ-powered b13. And I'm about to beat everyone to the VQ-powered s13.

 

Woulda, shoulda, coulda! The easy money has been made in the housing market and your strategy might have worked had you used it a few years ago, but is very risky at this stage of the housing/economic cycle.

The money you have spent on your Maxima is now a sunk cost and the only way you will recoup what you spent is to continue to maintain your car in good condition and keep it for a number of years.

 

I will keep breathing life into my Maxima until I can no longer get parts for it. This one is a "keeper."

 

Exactly why I'll never sell it. Outside of the .Org, no one cares about my y-pipe, or suspension, or intake. VI will be going on this weekend, and it wont add any value to my car. Dudes with the 3.5, no one will care there is a 3.5 in the car. Once you start getting into modding, you will never gain any money if you decide to sell it. Perhaps you could part the stuff off on the org, but thats the org.

 

I'm happy to report I recently beat a Mini in auto-x. He had a tuned suspension, I was totally stock sans a K&N filter. It was all driver, he couldn't drive as good as I could, period. You can race anything, look at those Mazda 6's winning races on Speed Channel (FWD no less). A stock 4th gen could keep up with a new (but stock) Mazda 6.
I think Maxima's are good platforms to learn on anyway, it trail brakes fairly well, and it doesn't torque steer all over the place either. I have trail braked out of turn 1 at Pocono into the infield at 90, it was fairly easy to handle. Plus, one of the things I like best, is Maxima's are somewhat sneaky, a 4th gen can either beat or keep up with a lot of things new or old on the road right now.

 

haha, yup. 4th gens are sneaky. I raced this dude in a mustang, and beat him. He became so upset that he is selling his car to buy an 05 GT. Said "I CANT BELIEVE I LOST TO A MAXIMA!" He was looking in my trunk for nitrous, and all under my hood. Couldnt believe I had just I/Y/E. The looks on peoples faces...priceless

 

What year mustang did you beat?

 

03 v6 with headers, intake, 70 MM TB, and dual Borla exhaust. It's nothing special, but he must have thought it was. I beat him by 2 cars on a road that measures exactly 1/4 mile. And that was with my heavy a$$ 17s on

 

stock 95/96's i know can beat up to 98 gt's that are stock

 

HAHA......those things are slow. These kids who put exhausts in them thinking they're the shet are on denial. He desereved to have had his *** handed to him by a Maxima.

I keep up with those guys and that's with just a stock intake with K&N and Flowmaster but I'm a 5 speeder.

 

If i was 5 spd, i would have murdered him. He is auto as well, but his car still chirps second gear. I first thought it was a GT with the exhaust out the back, but then he popped the hood, and i chuckled to myself. Shoulda put some money down.

 

With my new 5th gen clutch, I chirp second as well. Not sure if I can do 3rd. This is the thing that I really noticed on this clutch, 2nd is very strong.

 

yes, please do find out.


last time i talked to him he never actually got it up and running. he just had the motor dropped in but no more than that.

 

let's not get carried away here guys

 

'til death do us part

 

get carried away with what?