anybody know of any ways to reduce weight on early 5gen max? i just recently got a 00 se and was wondering if there is anything that can be done....beside removing spare tire of course...it's definitely heavier and less nimble than my old 98 se..

 

.. cheapest and easiest mod is for you to loose some weight..lol..

car wise... take out the back seat?
you want to go more advanced?
Carbon Fiber hood, Under Drive pulley,
ligther rims..
you can even get a CF trunk...

 

i actucally thought of those mods for weight reduction already...i guess i just have to live with it, oh i'm 165lbs so no need to loose weight...haha

 

Whatever scopium said plus power steering, Leather seats, carpet, spare tire

 

radio, door panels, dash board, washer resevior, carpet, rear deck, trunk carpet and lining, removing the exhaust braces (the ones under the exhaust pipe not connected to exhaust), heat shields, replace headers, roof lining... hmmmmm... i know there is more somewhere.

 

the lighter rims will do many wonders for you. other than that everything else was mentioned earlier. just be careful not to get a flat tire after stripping your trunk of the jack and spare (like i did )

 

This is how ya make the car much faster ! Go out buy a Bosch sawzall and go to town with it baby !

 

haha i saw that...that white go cart is actually a sentra stripped down


...how about seats?

 

I wonder what a gutted out Maxima would do, I mean to the same degree of stripping as that sentra got. The whole story behind that article was- the car was a factory car, and after the factory gets done with their testing on it, it has to be junked. It can't be resold to the public, one of the editors for SCC is a good friend of mine and works for Nissan America as a engineer.