Anyways, just looking into my options to add a few extra horse power to my '00 SE. I currently have Tein S-Tech springs, a Progress rear sway bar, camber kit and that's it. I want your guys opinions on what to do next for more power. Intake? Y-Pipe? Exhaust? What gives you the most bang for the buck and what brands should I look into. What's the route most people go. I'm a new Maxima owner and would appreciate some helpful insight. Thanks.

 

Y-pipe gives best bang for buck, try reading the stickies it's got a lot of helpful info to help you decide on what you want.

 

Anyways, I'm looking to add a few more horsepower to my '00 SE. Any suggestions on what to do first, next, etc... I have a set of Tein S-Tech springs, a Progress rear sway bar, and Eibach camber kit. But what I need is a bit more power. Intake? Y-Pipe? Exhaust? And what brands? Any help would be much appreciated. Let me know.

 

Nothing.... everything your car has, it has for a long, efficient life, altering the disign(short of using better parts factories cheap out on) will shorten that life... But turning fast is fun, HUH?

 

sell your S-Techs, and get a set of coilover shocks- like Tein, JIC, D2 or Cattman. Chances are your stock shocks are already blown. I would do a Ypipe, Underdrive pully and thats it if you only need a few more HP.

 

My car has 224k on it with many aftermarket parts, and still running.

 

My car has been dropped for about 3 months, and my struts are the originals, but they only have 22,000 miles on them. Yeah....they're almost dead, but I would rather concentrate on adding a few more horse power than changing suspension again, and not gaining any more power. Thanks

 

i noticed that you had a camber kit on your suspension, when you drop your car with tein stechs is it necessary to get a camber kit? or will an alignment do?

 

Intake and Y-pipe

 

get either the injen cai, or frankencar or berk intake. then go for a catback exhaust and y pipe. that will give you decent hp boost

 

alignment.

 

Well, when I checked the alignment readings, my camber was a little out of the recommended specs. Not a lot, but still out of the " recomended */- specs. With the camber kit I was able to bring it back within spec.

 

camber kit- meaning crash bolts or camber bolts ? Ones that go into the steering knuckle/strut ? Don't waste your $$ on Injen intake if you wanna get a CAI, Place Racing is the only intake to get. Exhaust doesn't really give you much HP- maybe 5HP from a expensive Greddy that is kinda loud, or 15 WHP for a Ypipe. I would go with a Ypipe, Berk intake, and Underdrive pully. Sell them crappy S-Techs for a real suspension setup that doesn't ride on blown struts. Blown shocks/struts are not safe. Driving faster with a broken piece of suspension can lead to devastating results. BTW I have 100K miles on my 01 Maxima and its still runing fine even after NOS, and no break in period. Aftermarket parts do not shorten the life of a car, unless ya blow up the engine or something then yes.

 

so, S-tech is not a real suspension???????
you talking about TEIN, one of the biggest company out there...... what is the real suspension for you?


thank you,

 

S-Tech give the Maxima a ricer look- LOW but they blow out every kind of strut out there cause- it will bottom out ! TEIN is the biggest suspesnion company out there- yes, but if they also supplied us with some good shocks that had more travel it would be nice. S-Tech are also too soft. REAL suspension is when shocks and springs work in a good harmony. Not when you see a ricer going down the street bouncing like on a pogo stick.

 

Wow, I guess he doesn't like Tein Suspension. I never knew that it was so crappy?! I guess the thousands of other Tein owners better read his post to learn about getting " a REAL suspension set-up. " I'm not sure why he's so set on ME getting rid of MY suspension, when I was looking for some options to add more HORSE POWER. True, suspension affects how you put power to the ground, but SHEEZ!

 

My car is stiff as a rock, it doesn't have any body roll at all. When you do suspension you also do shocks, no just springs. Lowering a car is one thing, but I bet you right now a stock suspension SE would handle better than your blown strut Tein lowered car. I race my car, road race it, autoX it. I guess there are Maxima drivers out there, and then theres the ricers who wanna bounce around in a unsafe car.

 

I'm thinking about doing some springs/struts (at the same time) next summer...what about going with a Progress/Illumina combo? I know that just slapping some lowering springs on your stock shocks will kill em, but how about going with a combo like I mentioned? Anybody here have the Progress/Illumina combo on their car? I'd love some advice.

 

People have already mentioned this. Get a Y-Pipe. Best HP/$$$

 

i would get a nice intake, its got a nice sound on max's, its cheap, and you can feel some increase in HP but what do i know?

 

Well, I have gone the same route that you've gone. On my last car, ('97 Honda Accord) I too had Koni's, Ground Controls, a Z Speed upper Tie bar and sways also. Along with a Weapon R Intake, DC Headers, and a Tanabe exhaust. But, you know what, that's in the past. I'm simply looking to add a little more power to my car. My car is not my entire life. I do not spend every second of the day dreaming of what mod to do next. I have other things of greater importance going on in my life. Quite frankly, I don't really have enough time in the day to worry about what mods another Maxima owner decides to do to their vehicle. It's great to be really passionate about something, but that doesn't mean that anybody else's opinions don't matter, or are wrong. There is life outside of your car.

 

But what brand. I've heard mixed reviews about the Stillen piece, and at the same time, I've heard multiple good comments about the Cattman. Anybody ever had both? Which is better? I can see spending more if it's worth it. But would I still feel a difference with my stock intake and exhaust still on?

 

Some people do live life outside of cars, but with blown struts your life might end in that car. Cattman stuff rocks. As far as Illuminas and Progress, its a good combo as the springs do not slam the car, and Progress does quite a bit of research in terms of suspension. They won't put out a product that will blow out even the aftermarket shocks in short amount of time ( ie Tein S-tech).

 

I guess I pay insurance for, fill up gas in, and change oil in, wash, go to work in......my Maxima. But I guess I'm not a " Maxima Driver." I guess there's no in between. I guess you're either hard-core, live,eat,drink,sleep,breathe Maxima or you're nothing at all. Either you spend every last dime of yours on your car or don't spend even one, huh. I guess I'm just a "ricer" then. Poor me....Oh how I wish I could be a "Maxima Driver!".......SIGH!

 

cattman has a good y-pipe.... look budget y-pipe too.

ilumina with teins will be good!!!!!!

 

For more HP, get a SUPERCHARGER!!!! The other bits will yield less gains. Personally, I can't notice a 5,10,20 HP difference. 90-100 extra HP IS noticable.

Otherwise, be happy with what ya got. These cars are pretty good out o tha box (except for the handling, ick!)

 

To answer your question, get the y pipe most bang for the buck.. and dont believe everything you hear about the tein s techs. My car runs fine and looks great with the tein s tech/illumina shocks combo... good combo with a nice drop and withought a ricey bounce.. its more of mean and aggressive look...and has a good quality drive...

 

Get the the Cattman Y pipe, Cat, full exhaust system, and headers, that will maximize your HP from the exhaust. Then add a CAI and you are good to go!!

 

Headers come with built-in/connected y-pipe.... so ya don't need that separately... I'm not being an jerk, I just learned that a couple weeks ago...

To answer the original question of this post.... headers or y-pipe, cat-back, intake... in that order....

 

Chill man... BlackBird gave some pretty good suggestions and constructive criticism... and you'll see that everyone has their own opinions about springs/struts combos and ride quality... so you're gonna have to decide on your own what you like and what's best for your purposes...

 

Duoh You are right, my bad! Get the Y-pipe/full exhaust, or, get the headers and full exhaust. Headers will give you more performance, but are a bit more $$$

 

Heheh... I know how ya feel... anyways... I think with header's its also recommended that ya get an SAFC or eManage or something like that, but I don't know enough about that yet....

 

F&&& the y pipe, just get the supachager

 

teins s are to low

 

you can never be to low

 

Go w/ Catman.

 

nitrous kit

 

I am Chill.... Blackbird gave his criticsm, and i also gave mine, let the people decide for what kind of suspension they want without juding the decision they made. i made my decesion with stechs/illuminas, so dont judge my decisionss thanksss

 

I feel you. I thought i posted that thread for advice on Horsepower, not what suspension I had. Yeah, Tein's may not be the best spring out there, but who can TRULY say which spring is " best ". I was looking for something with a low drop ( lower than 1.8" ) ,something comfortable, and something fairly inexpensive. You know what, I got all three of those things accomplished the day I installed my Tein's. In my opinion, that's a good choice if I fulfilled ALL of MY requirements. Just a thought! Now......time to start researching the Y-pipe issue. Anybody know if Cattman sells the header ( exhaust manifold ) separately. I've seen the header/y-pipe combo, and I've seen the y-pipe, but can you buy the header separately? Let me know.

 

Thanks for you support bran808, But for the ? on the y pipe you can not buy headers sepreatly then the y pipe. its either y pipe or ypipe/header combo. its a decsion you choose to make that suits your needs the most.. the combo does cost extra then just the y pipe, but good luck with your decision... somethign that suits your needs the most..