I have a 01 max with 75000 and i want a supercharger , Do you all think i should get the supercharger ot should i just trade it in and get an 02 or 03, What do you all think?

 

supercharge it.

 

Can i supercharge a 01 auto because i always see people with 5pd sprcharger

 

supercharge it.
and kick some 02-03 butts... j/k

 

what mods do you have NOW?

if none, why not go with exhaust, intake, headers and you'll have the power of a 5.5th gen....much cheaper and less trouble than SC

 

right now i have none just those 18" 350z wheeels and a 1.5 drop ... what kind of exaust can i get to make it look and sound close to stock .Iwant to keep it lookin stock but want to be as fast or faster than 5.5 gen..But i can supercharge an 01 auto right?

 

how much hp will exaust intake and headers give me

 

if you were to do a complete intake/exhaust system, each component is "worth" more HP....if all together:

intake: 5
headers: 20 or so
full exhaust: 10 or so

so +35-40

 

Not transmission to transmission, still won't be up to a modded 5.5g ..

I have yet to see a 5g auto put down 220hp.

H/E about 15-20whp, I think BlackBIRD would know best here.

 

I wold invest the money, after talking to BlackbirdVQ, to NA the thing.

Seriously, though...and SC will cost around $7,000+ when you are ready to drive it home.

 

i think im still goin to get that supercharger as well as the header and kill all 5.5 gens

 

But thanxs everyone

 

damn 7000 oh yea i think i might get that 03 thanxs alot

 

wrong with you ? Where did you get that figure?

 

Supercharger = $4k
Labor @ $65/hr x 30hrs min. $2k
Misc. = $1k

...no?

 

Oh. I wasn't counting the labor Sorry about that.

If you really wanted to get a s/c for relativley cheap, you could get a used one, and save, talk to Broaner, he's going that route.

 

Yeah, d00d. I would happily plunk down $4k for an all-inclusive SC deal!

 

people all over the org who can help with the install.

 

Good point.

Hey, PearlDiamond, we have a Turbo/Supercharged forum here on the .org. Go check it out, they can probably give you a better idea as to what you can expect. Also, they have some kick-@ss stickies there, read up on them.

 

SCed auto ? No thanx. I would reather own a 3.5L AUTO than a SCed 3.0L AUTO. Stillen blower needs to be reved up high to make power, down low you aint got nothing. Automatics need power down low, and with them shifting only 4 foward gears they loose alot of power between shifts. SCed AUTO will run like low 14s at best right out of the box, where a 3.5L will run low 14s with just a intake, timing advance, weight reduction. It would suck for your auto to line up with a 5spd 3.0L like mine and get destroyed after putting 4-5K dollars worth of SC parts on your car.

 

Yea I'd say trade it for an 02-03 5 speed and put the goodies on that!!!!

 

Those #'s are alittle overestimated. I would say with all those mods maybe 25hp. Just trying to help shoot the guy straight

 

Get the 5.5. Of course, I'm biased...

 

Your car is slow . I enjoy my car and it is a auto. My car ran a 14.3 at 99 on 9psi, 19"rims, no vb mod, untuned, and ypipe back 2.5" exhaust. Now with my mods in my sig i am putting down about 380 whp and i plan to run possibly high 12's once i get some slicks. Then its on to nitrous and my built tranny this summer. Can you say 11's!!!!!! .

Honestly it is a tough decision, but the supercharged auto can take down almost any 3.5L you put in front of it. I got my kit for $2,500 used here on the org.

 

Where do ya'll come and say that a modded 2k with auto is slow??? I know my car is not, and I've beaten about 3 modded 5-speeds already, even one 5.5gen stock with a auto.

BTW I not trying to start something, just trying to speak up for the worthless 3.0 auto (still is a POS tranny but with a VB mod the performance is better).

 

Chris, I'am also going your route and BTW I think your 2k auto is one of the best modded I have ever seen. I like the way you take care of it, keep up the good work.

 

Amen to that Ghase! I was thinking of the same things as PearlDiamond and decided to go with intake, Y & B pipe instead of 5.5 gen and I'm quite happy with performance and can kick some more now ;-)

 

I also drove a 5.5gen 6-speed back in feb. 2002(first came out). There fast as fuc!, but wants to do financing all over again where most original 2k owners already have paid off the bank and have their titles in hand (that's my problem). SC is for me...LOL

 

to irish "intake: 5
headers: 20 or so
full exhaust: 10 or so

so +35-40".........Show me a single dyno or track time where an intake or even an exhaust has improved your times or dyno. I dont kno how much HP it adds but the speed gains are almost non existant

 

Intake dynos/numbers here:

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=376123

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=195391

B-pipe dyno here:

http://www.motorvate.ca/mvp.php/522

Irish's exhaust guesstimate may be a little overstated, since most rear sections probably won't give ya much, so you'd be left with the 6 whp from the b-pipe, which isn't bad by any means... but the intake number seems fine, and is even on the low side if ya try the GAB set-up, which was dynoed by Nmexmax and bgates to give 9 whp.

As for headers on a VQ30, I'm not sure, but considering a y-pipe gives em at least around 12 whp, 20 is not that unbelievable.

 

Thanks

 

Headers will infact give you anywhere from 20 to 25 on a 3.0, 3.5 get an extra 5.

 

PearlDiamond - if you have a lot of $$ to spare, get the 5.5 gen stick and SC or turbo it ;-) I come from the poor croud and I'm happy with spending $500 on intake, Y+B...

 

I got one last payment until its paid off so ill just go with the full exuast , intake , headers, and maybe ecu upgrade

 

ever think about going turbo?

might be a more complicated setup than the sc, but i think its the better way to go...

 

Cattman headers (new ones will be out soon), Cattman Catback, Berk Intake, Unorthodox under drive pulley, JIC FLT-A2 coilovers, Cattman FSTB, BlehmCo Stage 2 LTB, Stillen RSB and HIDs (eBay projectors retrofit). DONE

 

not on a auto

 

does this have to do with anything?

 

Go 5.5. Stillen will eventually make a SC for the 5.5 gen. So you can already be that much farther ahead.

 

im not arguing the Y-pipe and headers those obviously show gains. I was saying that an INtake and a full exhaust alone will not give you much if any added gains. This comes from a friend of mine who is a lexus mechanic and ownes 2 IS300's, one stock and the other with a stage III turbo. I used to hang around with them and go to tracks/dynos and they alwasy put race a stock IS with an IS with just and intake or an intake and exhaust and both cars would run the same. Both 5spd's or both auto's.