NZ Max

This is off the topic but the general forum is closed.
Okay, this guy comes up and is by himself in a Honda Ra***a. If you don't know what this is, its a family sports car with a north south 2.5 5 cylinder but is front wheel drive. Weird??! Anyway, this one was a manual so I thought it would be a hard challange since I have an Auto 95 with the 2.5 VQ. So we drag off and he stays even till 80km where I pull slowly. (ps I had 2 other people). next drag the same except this time I load the trans up, but it still bogs terribly. third time I do a neural drop from rev limiter which is the only way to stop bog, and by the time he hits 60, we're neck and neck, but I gain while he changes to 2nd. his shifts were perfect, but there was enough for me to gain. Anyway later on we weigh the cars (there is a weigh bridge at a factory near the town that is left on sometimes, I come in at 1390 kg with fulltank, no people, 1650 with three people. The Honda was 1350 (car) and 1430 with driver.

Canuck

On the third launch, did you leave your tranny at the light?

Cause if you keep doing neutral drops, you might as well, cause its gonna be f*cked up.

1/3There2/3ToGo

Yes...please elaborate on how you did your neutral drop at the limiter and didnt blow your tranny.

Kirk

NZ Max

hmmm. I knew it was bad but didn't think it was THAT bad. Id look quite a fool at the lights with broken tranny under me...

1/3There2/3ToGo

Its all good, just dont do that anymore...When I go to the streets or strip to drag I torque brake it. I push hard on the brake pedal with my left foot and rev the engine up to 2000-2500 depending on how smooth the surface is where I will launch from. Tires will spin a little, but then grab and you shouldnt have any bog.

Kirk

NZ Max

I do that and get lots of bog. Isn't there a torque converter mod that helps this? I was talking to this auto trans guy about a vb upgrade and he was saying something about stall speed but i didn't really understand...

dmontzsta

iTrader: (8)

I did a neutral drop...And $1400 later I have a new trans.Of course that was 3 years ago you learn from your mistakes.

NZ Max

Isnt loading the tranny bad too?
my 1st car was a Mitsi Sigma 1.8 diesel turbo auto.
I used to do that all the time to get the turbo going so I could keep up with the likes of geo metros and anything under .8 litre. i ended up having only 1,2,3, no OD, No Rev, Park was 1st gear, Neutral was 1st gear.... buggered

1/3There2/3ToGo

Hmmm...havent heard a single bad thing about it yet...what were you loading it up to rpm wise?

Kirk

NZ Max

till the turbo kicked in with its .1 pound of boost at 2200
(the .1 is probably what it did, it was that crap, but hey, 1st cars are always the ones you have the most fun in i think)

1/3There2/3ToGo

Thats odd...I launch at 2000-2500 all the time. Maybe it was just a weak tranny?

Kirk

dmontzsta

iTrader: (8)

The trans is not meant to be abused like that. I did it a total of about 7 times in a week and on a saturday the final time I did it I lost OD,3,and 2nd I drove home in 1st very sad.You are putting some much strain on the trans by doing this.An auto isnt built to handle that many RPM at once.

NZ Max

Yes, thats what I did, except i did it about 30 or 40 times, the guy said it was like riding the clutch in a manual box and it had worn down that one of the many clutches in it had welded itself together causing the 1st gear in P,R,N and no OD.

Then I scrapped that car, got a mitsi tredia, burnt the clutch in that (4 speed supershift), got a toyota cressida, didnt like that, traded the cressida and tredia which was still drivable in on my 1st max, 89 se auto. then it blew heater core which stuffed ecu, so fixed then tradedit on mitsi magna 3.0 v6 5 sd. traded that on toyota corolla, 3 wks later hated the corolla so got the 4th gen. And Im only 18.

1/3There2/3ToGo

Damn yo, Im on my second car, first was an '85 2nd gen maxima SE 5-speed, and im 19.

Got rid of the 2nd gen cuz the are very few mods for them.

Kirk

NZ Max

what did you do with your maxima letters?
I will buy them if you want to sell.

Well actually, I only need the M A X M A as i already have an I from the CEFIRO. but theyre probably different lettering anyway. what do you think?

1/3There2/3ToGo

I'd sell them but both M's and both A's got bent when i took them off...sorry...and the I is somewhere at the dump since i didnt think having one letter would do any good.

Kirk

NZ Max

Thanks anyway.

1/3There2/3ToGo

No problem. Try going to the local nissan dealer and ask them how much it would cost to have them order the letters...or go to a junk yard and take them off a maxima...unless there arent any around you. (Maximas that is)

Kirk