The stock 95 max was recorded by motor trend at 142 mph.When I first bot my car it was completly stock and I got it up to 138 and it was still pulling but I had a corner comming up.After my mods I have burried the speedometer to some were around 145-150 mph.The engine actually tacks out at 157 mph if you have enough power to get there.

 

I wonder if the 99SE 5spd is slower then the 95SE ?? When I hit 127 I had to slow down, cause traffic was catching up. But I'm not sure if she could have gone much higher. She wasn't accelerating, just coasting.

 

are you sure about that 145 man? I was racing an M3 one time and i maxed out on a straight away at 132. She wouldn't go past that. I don't have any mods so maybe that's the difference. What do you think?

 

that is the fastest i have gotten......it was on the way back from dallas on I-35 and I was racing a legend and a 328.....the 328 just smoked me like i was stopped....the legend slowly pulled away too......hmmmm

 

Are you a 5 speed or auto? I wonder it that matters? Probably, different gear ratio's?

 

The 5spd has 5 gears (duh) the Auto actually has 4 so the ratios are definitely different. My old man drives a '98 I30 w/auto at around 75mph he pulls about 300RPM less than I do (me in 5th). Final gearing would make a difference in top speed.

I've seen 135mph on long stretches of interstate in Texas. However I don't really trust the speedometer about 115mph, you're definitely getting into an area where there is some significant error involved with the gauge. Anybody got a radar gun?
-Krell

 

Hey there Max people,

I dropped onto this discussion of top speed and could not resist putting in my 2 cents.

I recently bought a 98 SE 5 speed with 33K miles on it. I took it out for a top speed run and couldn't get my car past
130 MPH. I'm like, this car has GOT to do better. Something was up, but I didn't know what. SO, I did some minor maintenance, specifically, I changed my fuel filter and replaced the air filter with a K&N Panel filter.

KABLAMO. My car ROCKED to 135 and beyond, I touched 140 on several occaisions. Still do. What did it?? I'm pretty sure it was the fuel filter. The K&N Panel filter only helped my car breathe a wee bit better, but not much. And this K&N is not the POP charger or anything fancy like that, just a filter shaped just like the stock Nissan fileter but instead of paper, its the K&N oil soaked cotton stuff media.

So guys, if you think your car can do better, change your fuel filter, you will soon see what you've been missing:-)

DW

 

I HATE my 95 GXE's speed limiter. 117!!!! I have gotten my wifes KIA to 110!

 

Go get an upgraded ECU from Jim Wolf.

My stock max did 135+ back in 1995 at 3000 feet.

 

I was just wondering why some have limiters and others don't? There are some people on here that say they can get their 95 to 140 MPH, but then others say the limiter kicks in at 117 MPH, is the difference because one is Cali spec or something? I haven't tried to take mine out for a top speed test, I have already had too many experiences with the law when it comes to speeding.

BTW, When I was getting my tires mounted on my car a couple weeks back, the guys there were talk about this new BMW that some lady brought in and was complaining that at about 95 MPH something didn't sound right. . . She told them to do what they had to to figure out what was wrong and when they tried to test it, it was limited to 93 MPH, they had no idea how she could get up to 95. . . I thought that this was interesting. . . Anyone else know if BMWs are really limited that low?

 

Something I heard about lower speed rated tires on the GXE's. I don't think any other years have one.
I would get an upgraded ECU but I don't have $600 to spend on one. ( Plus a week or two down waiting to get it back...)

 

I've hit 135mph going north of Cross Island Parkway in NYC twice. Where?! There is a straight a way( sort of) from the LIE exit to the Bell blvd exit, and then, there is another one from Utopia exit to the Throgs Neck bridge exit right before the 90 degree turn. This is the only place where I never seen a car pulled over and it's the flatest and straightest freeway I know in the Queenz area. Anyone else in NYC tried to hit top speed on the Cross Island Parkway??

 

maybe the gle - don't quote me on that one, but all year gxe's are limited. At least all the 4th gens. This is because they come with lower rated tires then the SE's do.

Chris

 

Gxe's without the Security and Convience package (aka "da_key fob") come with cheaper tires and a speed limiter.

 

All GXE and GLE are speed limited to 118mph. They come with "T" rated tires which cannot go more than 118 SE come with H rated which can go 130+ This is how it breaksdown:
S- 112
T- 118
H- 130
V- 149
Z- 149+
As for the BMW question, they are all speed limited in one way or another. Only the europeans ones are allowed to go to their full potential, but the lowest speed limiter I've seen is 128 on a BMW 3 series, so I Don't know about that 93mph.

 

I got my 95 up to 115 at 5,000ft....I KNOW i had more in it...but ran out of road...hehe...but i remember in arizona we got it to 125 one time...going fast is fun!! Just dont get caught!!!

 

My brothers 98 Sentra SE was limited
to 109 until his ECU upgrade (JWT)

 

i kind of find it interesting that the 4th gens can't muster more than 140 stock. 3rd gens are electronicly limited at ~134 or so for the VG powered ones. if there was no limiter i think she could pull 140 if there was enough room...

Fro

 

I've added a catback and JWT intake since then but I don't think she'll go past 145. I wonder if I dropped my car if that would help the aerodynamics. PS. it took forever to get to 140 the first time now I get there considerably quicker but the wind just slows me when reaching 140.
Laters

 

I know for sure that lowering the car even the least little bit can help aerodynamics and speed!! Every little bit counts i guess...hehe

 

what the hell..a limiter???..my auto max 95 gxe..gets pass the 130 mark..and i get to 120 like nothing all the time..i changed my tires they are h rated....i doubt my max has a limiter..i had trouble passing 110 when i 1st started speeing in my max..now i pass 110 like im passing 50mph.btw thats sadd if a max cant pass 115mph..cuz my girlfriends honda accord ex(modded)gets up to 135mph...maybe even higher..

 

That is unless a previous owner upgraded the computer..
Sux don't it....

 

the previous owner of my 95 gxe max..was a mother of 2 kids....i seriously doubt she upgraded anything in whats now my maxima. maybe its different state to state....

 

Not all GXE's have a limiter. It only has a limiter if it's a 5spd GXE. If it's an auto, it's not limited. The auto's just don't go much past 130 anyways because they're just not geared for it. The gears are too high and the car doesn't have enough power at 130 to overcome them. If you're modded, that's different. I've taken mine up to about 135 or so (at least that's what the speedometer said) racing a nonturbo Supra. That was just with an intake.

 

Why would only the 5spd GXE be limited and not the Auto??

 

and the damn fuel cut...damn THEN the bmw was walking away from me.

 

Yeah, that's true

The 3rd gen SE and 4th gen both had 190 HP engines, the 4th gen having a more mordern all aluminum block and head, the venerable and mighty VQ. So up at top speed, horsepower counts the most, and there wasn't much of a difference between 3rd and 4th gen, as you noticed.

At speeds above 120, aerodynamics is king of all the drag you down factors. In that aspect, I gather that the 4th gen was better than the 3rd gen, but not by that much. Therefore, the top speed only rose a little, but I think the time to get there descreased alot. Anybody have a 0-130 time to compare a 3rd to 4th gen??

The 5th gen benefits from a much sharper forward windshield gradient compared to the 4th gen, and its top speed has climbed a few mph to like 143, compared to the 4th gen's manufacturer claims of 135.

 

I believe people here when they said that they got there speedometer up to 140 and above, but that doesn't mean that you were really going 140. Once you get to 125, aerodynamics becomes a huge part of the speed of the car. Road and Track has done testing for top speeds with lots of cars and most of the cars just reached 140-150 MPH (true speed) and I'm talking about mustangs and camaros, etc V8's. So even though the speedometer says 140, your probably not really going that fast. I'd like to see the true top speed of a maxima before and after mods.

 

142MPH I don't know were you got 135 from,also the Drag Cofficience of a 4th gen is .31 stock,not sure about a 5th gen probablyy .30.

 

Yeah, that's Motor trend. Nissan said the Gen 4 can do 135.

 

I have the Article were it was tested and in the picture the Max has all this fancy gear on it.Also Nissan is usually conservitive with there numbers thats probably why its only 135.

 

And that's the same MT where they couldn't get any V8 Mustangs to get to 140+ without some aerodynamic modifications (tape).

 

i've got a 95se manual. with 4 others in my car, i hit 120 (accordin to speedometer) with accelerator to spare

 

I hit 110 on MassPike, I was approaching State Police Station so decided to slow down.

 

i've gotten my 98 se AT up to 135 on a few occassions coming back from vegas. it was still pulling as well, but traffic was coming up. and that was back when it was stock. since some of my mods, i've got it up to 120 briefly on the local freeways a few times, but again had to shut it down because of traffic. the motor just purrs along, and i'm fairly certain that the next trip to vegas, 150+ will be easily attainable, including being hauled off to jail for reckless driving. i love this car!

 

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still have some in her (dunno how much)
but I do not feel like doing more
yeah I was pretty damn stupid that time when I decided to do
it....no more..I know what she can do and that should be enough

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the GXE and GLE have basically the same suspensions and everyhting else--same tires size--only the GLE gets the alloy and teh GXE gets the steel wheels?
So based on that shouldn't the ECU from the GXE and GLE be the same--and they should run about the same speed, when max'd out?

 

I have two Maxs (both I bought new)

95 GXE 5 spd=117 mph limited top speed

99 SE-L 5 spd 144 mph bone stock and still pulling
I was on I90 in South Dakota with three of us in car and sunroof open (it would close after we hit 130 b/c of the wind suction). 130 mph came up pretty quick and 135 took a few seconds but getting to 140 took forver and it seemed like I gained one mph every 1/16 of a mile after that. I may have been able to hit 148 or so but I had it floored for a couple of miles and no wind on a flat surface (with open roof).

 

112, then hit the limiter...I gotta get an ECU.