i've been a member for a while now, i've seen all your sigs, i've gawked at the pictures. so tell me, what made you decide to mod your car the way you did? what made you pick looks over performance, or vice versa? for me, i am sold on the idea that you should actually make your car perform like it looks, so i'm definitely going for performance first. another question is... how much did you pay for all your mods? i'm asking this because i'd like to compare the cost of dressing up your car to the cost of making it zoooooom. not like it really matters cause i've already made up my mind, i'd just like to know.

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15k .. looks and performance

 

wow, sprint i'm really starting to believe that you ARE a bot on this forum. i just posted that less than a minute ago...

 

My philosophy when I started to do the mod thing was to avoid being "All show and no go". If you have the looks you'd better have the power to back it up. Good luck!

 

 

Exactly. Or else it goes to waste.

SuDZ

 

i always wanted to look good, so thats where i started, it wasnt until i looked good that i realized people would wanna try me, so im now working on performance, while i looked stock i had no need for performance, simply bc who would wanna mess with a factory maxima?

 

I started out with looks, because there are some things that just need to be done..ie clear corners, tint, rims..... But lately I've gotten more into performance because I'm realizing that some day I'm gonna race a car that actually deserves to race me....and I'm gonna lose. Too bad performance mods are so damn expensive.

 

for me it both, but since I have a auto , speed is not a big thing for me because I will never be as fast as the 5 gear boys on here. If I did have a 5 speed , then I would do more performance but I am fine with the looks because the car is fast stock.

 

Looks , Luxury and PERFORMANCE. If your car is parked all ppl see is how it looks. We go REAL SLOW so ppl can see the tvs INSIDE.. But then again its a PERSONAL opinion so do watever you like :-)

 

Here's my take.

Ancient Chinese Proverb: The Silent Dog Kills

Taken many rice boys by surprise when they see a I-30 Luxury Sedan.

When you have all looks and no performance, it's like struting around in a black belt uniform and knowing zero marial arts. Your gonna get your butt kicked

Ancient American Proverb: Speed cost money, how fast do you want to go?

I've probably spent way too much money on this pig, but it's like crack, after you do your first mod, you gotta have more. At least I know when I sell it, I can take the mods off and sell it to you guys!

 

hehe

well i started with performance first then im going to worry about the looks. and on the performance side i am building the suspension first before all else.
reason i take passes in the mountains not to crazy about drag so suspension is a must for me.

 

What started me on the modding trail was when I tried to pass a Navigator on the highway...boy did I feel stupid for trying!

 

Nobody wants to be the slow and the curious.

 

how about just curious?

 

Don't just look fast when you can be fast.

Then you can smoke those who just look fast.

 

looks/sound=king dont waste your money on performance!

 

I chose to go the performance route. Very few of my mods are looks related. In fact, my shaved trucklid, wheels/tires, and GReddy cat-back are the only obvious mods that one would notice different from stock... unless you include its distinctive exhaust note.

I like the sleeper aspect of my mods. The car looks stock, but it'll blow away a stock Maxima in just about every performance category, including MPG! While I don't condemn those who opt to focus on looks, I prefer to keep a low profile, and let my car's performance speak for itself. If I had to choose between having bigger/shinier wheels than someone else and beating them down the 1/4 by 2 seconds, I would choose the quicker 1/4 everytime. And if my car looked "more stock" than theirs, so much the better! Besides, who wants to drive a cop magnet...? Good luck.

 

Once you do one, you will you will do the other. First i would get y-pipe, intake, and clear corners are a must. Depending on which companies you chose you can get these parts for around $350 brand new.

 

Definitely get ther performance edge first. Easy start is air flow - Intake, ypipe, RT Cat (may not give as much power as they claim), Exhaust. Whole set up should run about $950 if you can get it all for low prices. Pop charger, budget y, cat and a b pipe with hi flow muffler.

I personally have the rare HKS Super Mega Flow intake, Ypipe (hoping it fits well) in about 2 weeks, RT Cat and catback soon to follow.

If you go looks, it generally adds on a lot of weight and Max will feel more and more sluggish, especially with a nice sound system, heavy rims and body kit.

I'm trying to take it a step at a time and doing some looks with some perf so that it balances out.

 

awesome. yea, like i said, i have already made my decision of what i'm going to do. performance all the way!!! i like the sleeper look too. even though my wheel BRAND definitely isn't sleeper(momo corse), it looks like it because they are 16's and aren't chrome. they look like the five spoke factory SE's but skinnier spokes and flatter too. i love the wider tires though, for both handling AND looks. but alas.... i'm going to sell my max this summer.....FOR A FIVE SPEED OF COURSE!!! i had a 4 speed 1990 sentra before, that got me hooked for life on manual. even that little thing had a lot of grunt. i just rushed into this deal because, well, it was a DEAL. besides, my friend has a lex is300 that he likes to throw around....i gotta show him what's up. so... for right now i'm working hard on paying off as much as i can for this one so i won't have to pay so much for my next one. besides, my dad is cosigner, and we just bought this car this summer, so he's not too keen on me getting another one if i haven't even paid off the first one. but i can think of enough "economical" reasons of why i should get a stick, so it'll be all good.

....KEEP KICKIN A**!!!!!!

 

Well, i really have no significant mods... but so far it's for looks and handling and stereo... I don't really care for Speed that much, the maxima is no race car. It's famly sedan with some ***** and a good bargain for it's looks, engine etc.. I am happy with the VQ performance, even stock.. For now it's enough for me.. I don't race, (only on rare, rare occasions) and i live in NYC, what am i going to race for? first to reach 35 mph in traffic??? I got nice quiet grippy tires, nice looking rims, Front strut bar, getting a rear sway bar, eventually a front lip, window tint, stereo.. that's about it... it costs a lot to mod a car, and i can't afford to mod everything, as much as I'd like to... some day though, some day...

 

I would choose performance first personally...I have done! You don't want a$$es trying to race you all the time and the cops targeting you for being a racy looking car.....Wouldn't it be shameful if you look good but can't perform the way people expect? Hehehe!

 

my steelies own you right now

 

if i had the money - i wood absolutely love to spend like 100K to turn the maxima into a 10 second car or less.......but since i dont.....i have set aside about 8K to do everything....gonna wait until the summer comes...... and then imma gonna go pretty much 80% performance and 20% appearance

 

boy can i ever testify to that

 

Just don't pop the hood and nobody would know.

 

if only i had some mods!!!!

well the thing is i had a heavy foot when i started driving and so i decided that i'd rather look good and catch the eye that way, because no can stare if you are doing 0-60 in 4 seconds.. if you guys consider performance Intake/Ypipe/Exhaust then i have some performance.

you can only go so fast for so long without getting caught, but i can bounce around town with my bags and listen to my amazing stereo and be all comfy in my infiniti seats while playing ps2 without being hassled. if i get hassled?? there isnt a damn thing they can do, because at most i was doing 10 over..

ive spent about 13k on the car so far..

eventually i'll have the turbo and all that nonsense, once i go deaf and get headaches from hitting my head on the ceiling when i drop dat ***..

 

Well I threw the tint on first before doing any mods....I mean it's not like the car is slow stock....after riding in my friends car just like mine with an exhaust and intake it made me wanna mod.....

 

Ask a female what she prefers in bed........


"I'm a all nighta shoot all fira twankz rotate and
balance all tires"

 

Your welcome

 

both.

 

I rather spend my money on speed than looks. My .02 I like eating rice..

 

Rice can be yummy.

SuDZ

 

 

I would say performance. However, even with a SC, I wasn't satify. So, I sold the SC and now just going with looks for awhile. I plan to just go with looks now because I plan to finish school first and then buy a real sport car that is fast from the get go.

 

well fine, as long as it isnt made here

 

I went with looks first. I've taken it about as far as it can go w/ the new paint, custom bodywork, kit, custom interior, 19"s, etc. Now I'm going with the performance. All the car has right now is an intake/exhaust. But the NOS kit, SC, Y-Pipe are all sitting in my garage awaiting install. I'm also having an LSD custom built for the auto as well as custom axles. I'm trying to buy a spare tranny right now to work on also. After the performance is done, I'm going to finish up the stereo. I'm almost done with the trunk right now, neon, plexiglass, is almost all in. I still need to put the TV's, VCR, PS2 in though.
After the stereo gets done, I do have a few plans in the looks department. New mirrors, custom wing, custom hood, headlight/taillight conversion, widebody, oops did I say that?
And after that gets done, I want to buy a spare engine to build up to see just how much power I can get.

Right now, the car will have over $30K in mods after the SC/NOS and stereo are finished being installed. It's like an addiction. Once the car looks good, need the performance to match. Then once there's performance, the car doesn't look good enough. And of course, there's the stereo which needs to be on par with everything else. But for me, this is part of my business, so it all has a purpose. But in the end, I would say get a balance of both. You're not going to be happy with just looks or just performance. And on a Maxima, looks are more expensive than performance. There's unlimited possiblities in the looks department, but only so much you can do to the engine.

 

 

That's a lot of money man....if only I had that much.