Do a dyno with the 00vi before you go 5 spd. Wanna see what the gains are compaired to a mevi. All this talk of mevi owning 00vi and vise versa. I plan on the 00vi just because it's less common. Not at the moment cause all I can do is spark plugs, but one day.

 

your fine all set, the problem that is most likely giving you doubt is your standard autotragic lag between gears..your acceleration was perfectly normal.

 

I did dyno on the auto, i got 167whp and 165wtq, the VI opened too early on both runs so I lost some power, i probably could of got 169tq and 170whp if the VI opened later on...

Im running rich 11.8:1 so im losing power, but I gained about 35whp over the USIM at 6200rpm, (friend with same mods and auto went to dyno with me)

so the VI was WAY worth it, dont know much about MEVI except what others complain about, midrange lowend loss.

 

Works now, and yea thats normal like some said. For some reason though when I used to drive my brother's auto max it seemed pretty quick, esp compared to that vid. Who knows, factory freak?

 

Did you see the dyno Zack(forgot the sequence of numbers) did with a mevi and stock ecu? He did not lose any low/mids. I'm begining to think it's the 99 cali ecu doing this. I wish there were more 99 calis with mevis installed so I have more proof on this theory. Because there still isn't a plug and play ecu upgrade (without problems) for the 99's, not many of us have a mevi installed. The general consensus is, a VI is worthless without a raised rev limiter. But seeing his syno, gave me a bit of hope. If what I think turns out to be true for all 99 ecus and how the mevi is received by it, it will be a must have, at least for me.

bah nvm, going way off topic here.

 

yeh I saw his dyno, very impressive #'s for stock ECU I dont think he ever did a before and after dyno of the MEVI, if there is any lowend loss he woudlnt notice it with his mods :\


MEVI is MUCH simpler to install than a 00VI tho

 

seems normal for an auto. 0-60 seems to take about 8 seconds.

 

killer deleted his post??? Killervq30de or whatever, that vid is sexual, theres somethign in the ECU because I see you have some powah

 

Thanks man The reason I tried recording in the first place is my Auto has pretty good get up & go.. I will post a better clip when I can

(clip doesn't play for me, but did for S0ber so reposting just incase)

Short clip, but I like my intake
Click here to watch MOV0137523

 

Looks normal to me....
1st gear goes up to about 40mph

 

mine seems slow too until 4000 rpm. i hate it, i've been trying to learn how to do that power braking. But once i get up to 4000 there is definently some power there all the way until just under redline.

 

That's strange. Everyone else's vq is great from 3k to about 5300 then dies the fok out.

 

Thats how my max accelerates WITH a broken Knock Sensor on a cool weather night. Maybe you should look into your knock sensor again. Mine is ordered BTW....should be here tommorow or friday, cant wait to get my 25whp back!!

 

WOW...I'm so embarrased I ever backed you up..your turning out to be quite a dumbass..There is nothing wrong with his tranny.


BourneJ... you need to put your STOCK INTAKE back on. trust us all on this one.

 

heh my shortvid above is with dead KS too gonna cut my hands up tonight and replace it

 

I think my friend's auto Integra is faster than that (and it's stock).

 

how dare you!

 

I dunno what the stock intake has to do with accelerating at WOT. If he was feeling lag during regular everyday driving, I would suggest the stock setup, but not the whole thing, the mid-pipe is what brings back the low end response.

 

3 k is a little low the power kicks in maybe around 3500.
i have hacked airbox and a y pipe. i think the hacked airbox is depriving me from some low end. and ever since i got the y pipe i feel more high end.

 

By the sound of the video, he has an aftermarket intake, which we all know (except you) reduces power for the sake of a mean growl.

Please don't make me find the threads for you. (it has been discussed to the point of being sickening)

 

Again, it's the mid-pipe that kills the low end, not so much the whole setup. It does not kill the power, more like transfers it from one end of the power band to another. Humor me and find the threads for me.

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....t=stock+intake
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....t=stock+intake

There were 99 pages of threads with "stock intake" in the title

Agreed, the mid pipe affects it the most..

So what's your point in jumping on my *** in the first place?

 

I never jumped on you, you were overly sensitive to my question.

 

Yeah, I guess your right

 

It seems kinda slow to me. Mine hits 40 so fast. When floored my car always shifts at 6.5k

 

nothing wrong with the shift points or the acceleration after 3000rpms in that vid.
just seems like it's bogging on the lower end of 1st gear. that's just how our autos are.

you said you had a hacked airbox. what exactly did you do to it? my car used to accelerate like that when I had the top of the airbox off with a cone filter. I put the top of my airbox back on and replaced the cone with a K&N panel and got a little more pep back in the low end. maybe you should revert back to stock intake also.

either way, it's not going to make a HUGE difference.

 

I have a K&N panel in the stock box but I have 3 holes drilled in the bottom part of the box....

 

It might have been helpful if you had stated that in your original post. Ditto on the holes in the air box. Thanks to those holes, you have definitely lost your low end power.

End of story.

Plug them up, leave the shifter in D, floor the accelerator, and do the video again, please.

This time around, if you have a tripod, try using that instead of holding your camera by hand. In the first video, your speedo did not show up in the initial takeoff.

I think we'll all see the difference once that is done.

 

that looked and sounded just like mine i think.

 

Dude your car seems fine, but I don't understand why do you have to manually shift gears. leave it in drive and report back.

As for the low end power, and if you feel hesitation, you might want to check the KS and clean up the throtle body. Other than that can't expect much more from an auto.

 

From the gauges, it looks like he has a SE, but he never said what year is his Max!!!

Anybody know?

Although my whip is not exactly like his (I've got an I30, circa June 1998), for reference purposes, I'll do a video tonight of my gauges during a 60ft and post it. Oh, and my mods are a y-pipe, a stock intake w/ K&N filter, and three holes in my head.

Hey...why don't we collect a lot of videos and start a new TV show called, "America's Funkiest Acceleration?"

 

If you have crappy low end acceleration up to about 3000 rpm then your knock sensor is probably bad. Mine's bad and it dragggggggs up to 3000 rpms, and also the ks being bad wont always trip the cel.

 

My knock sensor is fine. It was just replaced.

dr-rjp - what difference does it make if it's an SE or not? Or what year it is???
Yes it's an SE and it's a 98....

If you have nothing good to say, there's a million other threads here so go and try to find a friend in a different thread.

 

I made a little video, im just as slow, god damnit I hate this auto crap... lol good thing im almost done finding parts for the 5spd

http://media.putfile.com/1stgear

 

also as you can see it shifts around 6300rpm, sigh, another reason to get 5spd to get more out of my VI, i have alot of power up there and im short shifting it, 7200rpm limit would be AWESOME Too.

 

Yes, i'm still thinking whether to convert or not.

It's very cheap here.
I drop off my car & when I pick it up from the shop, it's a 5spd - cost $500 for everything....only thing is they take my auto tranny (which I don't need anyway).
But my wife loves the auto so I don't know if i'll get to convert.

 

holy crap...thats like honsetly twice as fast as my car.... wtf1!!!

 

which one? sober's or mine?

 

both of urs.. i dunno something is seriously messed up with my car and i cant figure it out...

 

my o2's are going out, gotta change that...