Fastest Max is the 95 GXE? Is this why?
12-10-2005, 04:32 AM
#1
Fastest Max is the 95 GXE? Is this why?
I did a few searches after I found this article and never came up with anything so I hope its not a repost.
http://www.injuryboard.com/view.cfm/Topic=887
"In August 2002, a New Jersey jury ruled that a design defect exists in the American version of the 1995 Nissan Maxima GXE. The ruling extended from a case involving a 45-year-old man who suffered severe leg and head injuries in an accident involving the model. William Ziemer, 45, was driving his 1995 Maxima on a two-lane road outside of Bernardsville, N.J., when a 1990 Ford Mustang traveling in the opposite direction struck his vehicle head-on. Ziemer suffered several fractured bones in his legs and severe brain damage when the car's sill, the lower edge of the body that runs from the front wheel well to the rear floor plate, collapsed, destroying the mounts for the floor plates and throwing the plaintiff forward.
Attorneys argued that a support along the sill, a feature available in all European versions of the Maxima GXE, would have prevented Ziemer's severe injuries. The sill support was not added to the American model until 1996. The jury awarded Ziemer $14.4 million."
http://www.injuryboard.com/view.cfm/Topic=887
"In August 2002, a New Jersey jury ruled that a design defect exists in the American version of the 1995 Nissan Maxima GXE. The ruling extended from a case involving a 45-year-old man who suffered severe leg and head injuries in an accident involving the model. William Ziemer, 45, was driving his 1995 Maxima on a two-lane road outside of Bernardsville, N.J., when a 1990 Ford Mustang traveling in the opposite direction struck his vehicle head-on. Ziemer suffered several fractured bones in his legs and severe brain damage when the car's sill, the lower edge of the body that runs from the front wheel well to the rear floor plate, collapsed, destroying the mounts for the floor plates and throwing the plaintiff forward.
Attorneys argued that a support along the sill, a feature available in all European versions of the Maxima GXE, would have prevented Ziemer's severe injuries. The sill support was not added to the American model until 1996. The jury awarded Ziemer $14.4 million."
12-10-2005, 04:51 AM
#2
Yes, I already knew that and I keep saying it but nobody wants to listen. 95 gxe is the fastest 4th gen due to its weight and emissions. 97+ they have more emissions crap and they are re-enforced for better safety ratings. Ive heard the real wieght of a 95 GXE is about 2800-2900. I could be wrong but I heard it was.
12-10-2005, 10:23 AM
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here's neal's thread
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=401613
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=401613
12-10-2005, 12:44 PM
#13
I think my '95 SE should be pretty light. It doesn't have hardly any options, no sunroof, no leather, no bose, no auto trans, etc. I think the sunroof alone adds 100 lbs., and it's all positioned on the top of the car so it should handle better without it as well. I need to get this thing weighed.
12-10-2005, 02:13 PM
#16
Originally Posted by jwmaxse
I think my '95 SE should be pretty light. It doesn't have hardly any options, no sunroof, no leather, no bose, no auto trans, etc. I think the sunroof alone adds 100 lbs., and it's all positioned on the top of the car so it should handle better without it as well. I need to get this thing weighed.
12-10-2005, 04:31 PM
#17
Originally Posted by UNCDooD
got a timeslip?
It didnt seem my post went through. I had a horrible 60 foot, no traction at all. I believe it was a 2.60. After my new trans, Stillen flywheel, act stage 1, light weight 15's, gutted trunk, TS ECU I should nail a 13.4 somewhere in that area.
12-11-2005, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by SMX95
Ok here it is.
R/T .537
60' 2.463
330 6.282
1/8 9.319
mph 81.44
1000 11.950
1/4 14.275
mph 97.59
R/T .537
60' 2.463
330 6.282
1/8 9.319
mph 81.44
1000 11.950
1/4 14.275
mph 97.59
for 95s....
12-11-2005, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SMX95
Thats why im not going to get into this again. That's a legit slip my car slip. Neal ran a 14.5 with his bone stock maxima, yet to many it's hard to believe that But I do believe it. Each to his own.
Saying Neal ran a 14.5 means nothing. You have to look at his 60', 330', 1/8 mph, and 1/4 mph. They add up, yours don't.
Here is the main reasons why that slip is BS, or a mistake
IIRC you ran 3-4 times the day you got that slip and non of the other runs resembled that.
To pull a 2.5 60' and then proceed to run a 14.2 would indicate fairly big power for a maxima, on the order of 230-240 whp. At the same time the slip shows that you trapped trapped 81.5 in the 1/8 and only gained 16mph after that....showing a car that does not make big power.
I well over 200 time slips with my I30 and also have a hand full of funky slips that don't make sense. Some saying times that I know I could not have ran or some with numbers that don't add up. I would never count those as legit slips because it was obvious something went wrong with the timing equipment, something blew across the track, or yada yada, yada.
12-11-2005, 07:29 PM
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Can any of you gauge monkeys tell me something?
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
12-11-2005, 07:32 PM
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http://forums.maxima.org/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=9
Originally Posted by clive
Can any of you gauge monkeys tell me something?
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
12-11-2005, 09:06 PM
#28
Originally Posted by clive
Can any of you gauge monkeys tell me something?
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
The other evening I was unable to blow off a Cirrus which is merely a 2.5 V6 I think, and I was watching the rpms stuck at 4000, no more, with my foot on the floor. I let him go at 95 since it was beginning to get dangerous. Is 4000 the most I should expect between 40 - 90? This is a 96 auto, fully loaded. Slightly crippled because one of the oxy sensors is bad.
12-12-2005, 02:22 AM
#33
Originally Posted by SMX95
Ok here it is.
R/T .537
60' 2.463
330 6.282
1/8 9.319
mph 81.44
1000 11.950
1/4 14.275
mph 97.59
R/T .537
60' 2.463
330 6.282
1/8 9.319
mph 81.44
1000 11.950
1/4 14.275
mph 97.59
12-12-2005, 02:23 AM
#34
Originally Posted by I30tMikeD
I hate to go though this again with you, but that is the funkiest looking 14.2 time slip I have ever seen. #'s just don't add up. I ran in the 14.1-14.3 range probably 40 different times and know what a time slip from a bolt on maxima running low 14's should look like....and it is nothing like that.
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12-13-2005, 04:45 AM
#35
Originally Posted by SMX95
Yes, I already knew that and I keep saying it but nobody wants to listen. 95 gxe is the fastest 4th gen due to its weight and emissions. 97+ they have more emissions crap and they are re-enforced for better safety ratings. Ive heard the real wieght of a 95 GXE is about 2800-2900. I could be wrong but I heard it was.
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