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story of my maxima... life, hospitalization, and resurrection!

Old Sep 10, 2008 | 11:53 PM
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story of my maxima... life, hospitalization, and resurrection!

im so excited!! dude i just got home from friends house. he helped me install my new progress rear sway bar! im so stoked! its been a while since ive done anything to my car. mostly cuz a little accident i got in that forced me to use money for repairs just to keep it running. its running strong again and i hope ill be able to get it back into top form with new performance parts

mods so far (in order of installation):
- 17" eagle alloys
- tein h-tech's
- kyb gr2's
- stillen hi-flow intake
- apexi ws2 muffler
- 235/45R17 kumho ecsta spt's
- progress rsb

i know i havent done much, i quite frankly wasnt planning on doing anything to my car in the beginning. my uncle gave it to me 4 yrs ago as a high school graduation present. it came with the 17" rims and some generic tires. had falken ziex's for a while and that was my only mod until the driving bug bit me a couple years ago. i went out and did a bit of research, and since at the time i worked at mcdonalds i was only able to afford springs and struts. i went the a subtle drop from the tein h-techs and the relatively stiff kyb gr2s.

not long after i had made the mistake of teaching my girl friend how to drive in my car... and thats how the accident happened. we went straight thru a wall! sigh needless to say i was very sad for my maxima. biggest regret of my life thus far. anyways so my car was in the shop for about a week. they replaced the windshield and searched for other possible problems. the bumper and lights and everything was still intact... only a bunch of scratches and dents but overall the car still looked good for having been rammed thru a brick wall. at first the car seemed fine. but over the course of the year, many problems came up and i think i put in about $3k worth of repairs. now i know that doesnt sound liek a lot, but for a poor college student who can only work part time.. thats A LOT.

well $3k and a year later, my car is in pretty good running shape again. and since then ive added a stillen intake, apexi ws2 muffler, went thru a few sets of dunlop direzza's (really good tires but i decided to go with kumho ecsta spt's this time around), and now this progress rsb. i previously was planning on saving up for a down on a new 09 altima... but since my maxima seems to be running strong again i want to stick with it for a bit longer. besides im really attached to it still hahaha.

basically im planning on a warpspeed or budget y-pipe next. any thoughts? suggestions? comments? feel free to reply or pm me! i would more than appreciate some advice and guidance from my fellow maxima enthusiasts
Old Sep 11, 2008 | 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by rocklee2029
not long after i had made the mistake of teaching my girl friend how to drive in my car... and thats how the accident happened. we went straight thru a wall!
.. surprised how the maxima is still good, after some repair. Good to hear everything is okay now. good luck modding..

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Old Sep 11, 2008 | 05:48 AM
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sometimes a Maxima is hard to part with and mods are fun good luck
Old Sep 11, 2008 | 06:31 AM
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Hopefully you are still with the same chick...

But honestly, what is the point of this thread?
Old Sep 11, 2008 | 07:32 AM
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Hopefully you are still with the same chick...

But honestly, what is the point of this thread?
.......i hope you he takes care of the car.
Old Sep 11, 2008 | 08:33 AM
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Old Sep 11, 2008 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by rocklee2029
not long after i had made the mistake of teaching my girl friend how to drive in my car... and thats how the accident happened. we went straight thru a wall!


That's one crazy story. Glad you're keeping the car alive. Good luck!

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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 08:42 AM
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thanks for the support guys. it means alot. =) i cant wait to continue with my maxima's restoration. there really wasnt much of a point to this thread... it started out with me being all stoked about the progress rsb and turned into a rant i guess hahaha.

here are some pics from b4 the accident:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/P9210041.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/P9210042.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/P4180014.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/P4260027.jpg

Some pics on turnbull b4 the accident and after installing the tein htechs and kyb gr2s:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/PC010029.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/PC010030.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/PC080057.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/PC080061.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t/PC080062.jpg

now the pics of most of the damages after the accident:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics017.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics018.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics019.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics022.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics023.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics024.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics026.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics028.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics038.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics041.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...entpics040.jpg
Not bad for a car that rammed thru a wall eh? haha. my friends call my maxima "the tank" LOL

a couple pics at turnbull a few weeks ago:



btw, in case yall were wondering who crashed my poor maxima... this is the girl:
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 09:26 AM
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Asian women= worst drivers. You should have seen this one coming...
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 09:59 AM
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LOL! yeh true >_<
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 12:03 PM
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Asian women= worst drivers. You should have seen this one coming...
bwahaha
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 12:11 PM
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bwahaha
LMAO CAR RAMROD....urs sig...lolz at that movie...lmao at the statement said about the chick.....lmao cruel ppl....
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 05:19 PM
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Asian women= worst drivers. You should have seen this one coming...
LMAO so true! I couldn't say it better myself, so I quote it for reiteration.
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 07:50 PM
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That's one crazy story. Glad you're keeping the car alive. Good luck!

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your mccain sig is gay just like his old *** that cant lift up his left arm to shoulder height, lol, him and his big ooooooo jaw bone.
Old Sep 12, 2008 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by GStrength
your mccain sig is gay just like his old *** that cant lift up his left arm to shoulder height, lol, him and his big ooooooo jaw bone.
here we go....


IBTL
Old Sep 13, 2008 | 12:33 AM
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here we go....


IBTL
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Old Sep 13, 2008 | 08:31 AM
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your mccain sig is gay just like his old *** that cant lift up his left arm to shoulder height, lol, him and his big ooooooo jaw bone.
omg... dont be a total douche... i wanna see you go thorough torturing in vietnam and even live to tell the tale...
Old Sep 15, 2008 | 11:33 AM
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omg... dont be a total douche... i wanna see you go thorough torturing in vietnam and even live to tell the tale...
Don't be too hard on him, they probably haven't covered the topic of Vietnam in class yet.
Old Sep 15, 2008 | 11:51 AM
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Don't be too hard on him, they probably haven't covered the topic of Vietnam in class yet.
lolz, probably doesn't know where 'nam is anyway
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all they were doing was smoking weed banging hookers and playing with opiates. i def would have made it back ...
Old Sep 15, 2008 | 03:40 PM
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all they were doing was smoking weed banging hookers and playing with opiates. i def would have made it back ...with an std


fixed
Old Sep 15, 2008 | 03:43 PM
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hahaha wow how about we continue the political topics ina new thread =P

i mean i dont mind haha but if you guys wanna bash on or support mccain, should prolly do it in a thread like "who you voting for and why" or something like that hahaha
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