So heres the situation. I have $5000 saved for upgrades for my Maxima this summer. She currently has 230,000 Km on her hasn't had a transmission rebuild or even problem but I'm sure one is due in the near future. After this winter its going to be my summer project car so no more winters . My question is, do you think that it would be better to do the 3.5 swap or Turbo/SC the beast? I'm not sure $5000 will cover everything I need for the turbo / SC. Ive looked at the sticky about doing the 3.5 swap and it says ill spend about $3000 doing it, so are there things that I should upgraded on the 3.5 engine before I throw it in with the other $1600 or should I upgraded my suspension, brakes all that stuff first? 3.5 or Turbo/SC that is the question lol. All opinions are welcome I need all the info I can get. (Maxima currently has CE y-pipe , Greddy SP2 cat-back, and Injen CAI.)

Thanks,
Jeff

 

I would go with the suspension and then the 3.5 swap... then maybe do a retro T/C on that, down the road of course. So yeah do the suspension and wheel set up and then the 3.5 swap. Just my .02

 

Suspension then Swap

 

So how come the suspension then the swap? I can do them both at the same time cant I? or can i not get suspension for $1600.

 

please dont spend that much on struts/springs or coilovers! thats rediculous if you ask me, even if you have the money! you can get a really good strut/spring set up for at most $600. You can get the swap done(if you are doing it yourself for anywhere between $1200 I think was the lowest I saw and i'd say 2g's) So for $3500 you can do suspension and motor swap. save the other $1500 for when something breaks. If it were me, I would not spend it all. I just did a de-k swap for like $1100 I think, and spent another $700 fixing my tranny and getting a new axle. Spend your money wisely!

 

spend some time in the all motor and suspension forums..ok a lot of time reading up on this stuff.

 

With an extra $5000 lying around, I would consider selling the max and buying something else. But assuming, you're keeping the maxima:

Suspension upgrade is less than $1000 (coilovers (or GC/Koni), strut bars, and rear sway bar).

VQ35 swap is less than $1200 if you do it yourself. Use the rest for a transmission rebuild with Quaife LSD (rare gem is on its last production run, check group deal forum).

 

3.5 swap, and get some suspenison upgrade