thats a huge DIY. especially in your garage! nice job man

great posts like this on the org make people keep on modding, cars great job

great results very very nice, keep it looking fresh!

Congrats on this epic feat! Lots and lots of people were snapping pics of your Maxima and admiring it on Stillen day!

Absolutely love the shaved door guards. Next time we need to mold the hood scoop as well as the other things we discussed. Hood scoop is still pretty bada$$ though as it is!

If you are implying that the job took 80 hours from start to finish, you are way off Taterhead.

Either you have a great camera or I'm one handsome fellow

Wow!!! Great patience! Turned out nice!

love what you did with the front end, but a 95-96 rear? come on man

looks great!!!! tho i can go with out the hood scoop. unless u got an intercooler there mounted on top of the engine.

Don't worry. I'll be sure not to fill in the wave, shave the keyhole, and install a '95 trunk on your car.

Well, actually, I do have one. It's a water to air aftercooler, barrel design. It sits in the engine bay.

Very impressive.Talents!!!!

Sweet job you must be ecstatic. I see you shaved your antenna, what and where did you mount an aftermarket one. Your stock head unit bracket you and the wizard have... What did you guys do to it to have the H.u. sit flush with the dash ? Im have an AVN6620 and It stick out about 1/4" away from the dash. I also followed your foot notes and made a fake face out of my Bose radio. That was a great Idea by the way. So with that being said I need to have my H.u. sit flush so this face will look as real as possible. Besides the fact that I Hate that the h.u. its not flush. Any info will help.

We modified the stock radio bracket.

In a nutshell, we:
1. Took the OEM radio bracket completely out of the car and detached it from the radio.
2. Layed it flat on the workbench and pounded the areas where the bolts go completely flat, thus giving us more useable and drillable area.
3. Used a ruler and marked the same holes about 3/8" inches back.
4. Attached to new HU and achieved the nice flush look!

I'll let Josh answer the antenna question.

Your car looks great. Makes me want to repaint my car the stock color and get rid of all the dents and scratches. Also wanted to thank-you for the scifd. I will need it soon. I printed it, laminated it and put it in a three ring binder.

aahhh I understand I was going to figure something out but thanks for the tip. Your hu stuck out 3/8" originally ? anyhow if it did it looks sweet now. Like factory!

Something like 3/8", maybe a little less. We did this ages ago, so I don't remember exactly.

got ya man. I love your dash kit.. so neat looking and that flush fit for the hu awesome. Soon mine will be flush as well. Thanks again for the tip.

Nice!! LOL at "laminated it"

Josh spent oodles of hours putting that thing together. Nice to know people are still reading/using it.

Not my thing, but I can certainly appreciate all your hard work. Paint looks good.

Yeah it's great. I'm very thankful that he spent all the time on it, it will help me out a lot. I would like to thank-you too (The Wizard) since you helped him with the install. I plan to actually need it in a month or two. I can't wait!

Post pics/info here....

http://forums.maxima.org/audio-elect...ce-thread.html

Thanks for the link. after a few hours of measuring drilling and cutting I got my hu to sit flush Still working on the fake face though now that my hu is flush I have to finish grinding down the back of the face till I get it flush . I'll post some pics when its all done.

is it hard to gut the trunk lid and the hood? Just cut the frame? are there lot of spot welds?

whats the difference between that white and the arctic pearl white on other 4th gens?

Really really nice. Ive never been a fan of white on any vehicles but this works. Not how I would have done things but still very nice job!

Josh where did you locate your antenna too. I was thinking of shaving mine but want to know what others are doing with there's . Thanks.

Again, thanks for all the nice words guys.


What's not your thing? I did a lot of "things".


Thanks for the thanks and appreciate of the SCIFD VT.



It is very time consuming but not really that difficult. The "spot welds" you ask about are more like Jr. Mint sized splotches of this strong rubbery adhesive. You need to take a saw blade and carefully saw through them. Then, use a dremmil and buzz the outer perimeter of what you want to remove. Be careful to never hurt the painted/outside layer of sheet metal. I placed a metal plate between the underhood support/frame and the outside plane of the hood just to make sure I never slip and damage the outer plane. There is a significant weight savings but please note your hood and trunk will be weaker. The hood is fine and still works well with the stock shocks, etc. But if someone (or something) were to rest on the center of the hood, it will cave. As for the trunk, you'll have to modify (or eliminate) your torsion bars because your trunk will open soooo violently after your reduce its weight. I haven't modified my torsion bars yet so I just make sure I am there to catch the trunk when I pop it.

'96 through '98 white was "Arctic White". A lot of people call it "Arctic White Pearl" but I am pretty sure it is only called Arctic White. At least that's what my '96 window sticker says. '99 white is "Icelandic white". I'd say they both have the same amount of pearl in them. The difference is that the Icelandic has a little more cream in it. More of an off-white pearl. The Arctic is white-white pearl.



How would you have done "things" Don?



too = to. there's = theirs.

Sorry for the delay maxprivate. There are a few options. When I shaved my antenna on my '96 years ago, I installed a Fuba roof-mount antenna. It's actually a powered antenna and gets really good reception. It looks just like a VW antenna. I mounted it in the rear middle of the roof. I then later changed it to a Zendar antenna. It isn't powered but works well.

Now, for my '99 which I just recently shaved, I'm thinking I'd like to keep the clean look and not add an external antenna. So, meanwhile, I haven't done anything. Let me point out that if you do nothing and you have the Bose dual diversity antenna, you'll still get o.k. FM reception (no AM). There is an antenna in our back windshield. But, assuming you want good FM and AM reception, which I do too, we'll have to look into an internal antenna. I know Zendar makes one. It goes in the pillar, in our case, probably the passenger side C pillar. Other companies might make one. I haven't bought one yet but that's the way I am going to go. I'll keep you updated with what I buy and how it works.

Good luck.

hood scoop is tight

well put

needs rims and its perfect.

props for doin it yourself tho

great job on the diy project looks great with the conversion and the shaving and all. big props.

Nah. Those are nice rims. He chose those extremely lightweight rims for a good reason: performance. And......they clear his BBK w/o spacers.

haha... performance... if he wanted things to be light for performance he should take the body kit off... that adds alot of weight..

True. The body kit adds weight, but not a lot by any means (<10lbs). Besides, Ptatohed has shaved over 200lb (and counting) off the Maxima, and with over 300 ponies he can afford to add the body kit.

wiz you have a nice max... just thought id say that... what color is it?

No kidding. Even with the kit and larger wheels it would still pull on most other Maximas
Gotta luv boost.

Thank you.

It's Lakeshore Blue, exclusive to the '99 year.

Most definitely. Ptatohed's car has transformed into a beast and pulls like a ****.

Me luvs da boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooost

ive been wondering ever since i joined the org, is josh/ptatohed a teacher? because he's always correcting our non-existent grammar skills.

LOL. Nope, I'm just a lowly civil engineer.

I've....I.......Josh.......Because.............

^^^ lol. well im just a lowly supervisor at Home Depot, dont get me wrong doesnt bother me or something that you do it, i was just asking.

p.s. like always im jealous of your car... someday when i finish school ill be able to build a beautiful work of art like that!