How can I route it to the fender? More pipes?

 

^^Follow this link. There is some work involved....nothing you cant do while downin' a 6 pack tho. Easy peezy

https://maxima.org/forums/5th-genera...ir-intake.html

 

Ahhh yes, I cyesdefinitely drink at 17

 

Just bought my third set of backseats

from 01 cloth
To 02 black leather
To 04 i35 heated leather

Im so nice to my passengers

 

^^I want i35 rears too...and likely ill be in your shoes too. 3 interiors in haha.
btw i still need to do my rear shade still. baby steps

 

Ive got an extra one and the know how!

 

^ All you guys with the seats...are the i35 rears special or what? Better than the Maxi rears? I cant really remember em being any different.

Sold an 03 i35 recently, had a black interior like my 5th gen...I couldve swapped back seats....but my rears are in perfect shape..

Now the front seats...I shouldve swapped those out and had a perfect fresh pair of 03 heated leather, mine is in great shape but the driver seat outside edge is always slowly developing some spider webs.

 

The I35 rear seats have a better styled leather pattern, headrests, but most importantly they're HEATED. Now i just have to decide where i want to run the wires to and where to mount the switches

 

Heated rear seats to match fronts...sounds nice. Gonna have to source some rear seats I assume

I never really paid attention, had no clue that are heated

 

The only way you can tell is by the switch located by the window switches on the back doors. Its a real easy thing to miss if you dont know they're there!

 

Ahhh i see. That makes sense. The i35 I had was a fully loaded every option plus sports package, Im guessing it had heated rears and I didnt even know. Couldve stolen em for my car and put mine in there....it wouldn't of had any impact on my selling price lol

 

In the spirit of the I35 talk I did the gauge cluster swap today.

 

 

Well not to brag but just yesterday i built myself a k&n cold air and now waiting on my axle back exhaust kit from ups's slow ***...

 

Nice and bright!

 

Pretty what year max did you swap it into?

 

Advanced timing to 17 degrees using NDSII

 

^^^Props to those doing i35 cluster swaps...for the sake of being different. but my 2 cents the maxima layout looks far superior than that imo. dual same sized center guages with 2 smallers on the sides.
If the i35 had a center larger tachometer i could see the benefit..but its a speedo. Mehh

 

I like the 5th gen SE gauges the best. Best color combo too, stock...Blue and red

And I really like the "titanium" face gauges in daytime...much better than black background

 

^just what i meant Stillwell...Maxima has variants that i think are nice looking than this (those you mentioned) Brownie points for being different is all i see here truly imo.
Oh how i miss my se te tho...

 

I swapped it into a 2003. Compatibility-wise you would want an I35 cluster to go in a 5.5 gen Maxima only. Anything else poses some issues.


Thanks for the props and I understand that it may not be for everyone. Hell it may not even be for me for long but most of the stuff that I do with this car is purely for fun. Lots of stuff I like, lots of stuff doesn't stick around for long (example - hood bug deflector - yuck). All of it has been enjoyable.

The TE cluster is nice and with led's even nicer but I get bored easy and the I35 cluster is kind of the opposite of the Max cluster - subdued and kind of hidden until you turn the car on. With a completely black interior it works even more imo. We'll see if it sticks around.

Oh and did you see the I35 cluster goes to 260km/h!!! That's worth it right there.

 

^
Is your 6 speed car all up and running now?

 

Swap complete.

 

Nice

 

Thats 160mph, same number the Maxima speedo goes to.

Unless you just like seeing the bigger number? Lolz ....but everyone knows its km/h

 

Changed motor oil and air filter now im ready for winter

 

Started to change the upper oil pan.
I was following a how-to which was pretty crappy.
Anyway. After this it'll be 100% leak free and perfect.

 

I was having some hesitation issues and I'm at 113k on the odometer.

I'm like the third owner and when I took her over she was hurtin for some TLC. At that time, replaced coils, cleaned MAF and TB... better but still lagging a bit.

So I decided to Seafoam the Max this past weekend. I messed up the part when you let the TB suck up the last 3rd... kept stalling even with only a tiny bit going in. Finally realized after restarting the car four times, that the AC was on.

At any rate... what a difference! I know there are dissenting opinions about Seafoam's effectiveness, but I can tell you that it was immediately more powerful and responsive.

Maybe bc of the age, mileage, and condition it came to me... but im thankful I did it. Now if I can just fix my low end rattle.

 

Fack.


I had a flat last year on November 11th too.. -______-

Time for new rims and tires

 

LMFAO, new rims?
You must be loaded...

 

^^ lmao

 

Loaded? No.

Tired of coming out to my Max needing air in the tires? Yes.

Since i bought the car I've had issues with my tires going flat randomly.. Especially when it gets cold. Ive had tires replaced and rims cleaned of corrosion multiple times to no avail. So, since i need new tread before winter anyway i figured Id finally dive into a set of new rims. Wanted the G35 18s.. But of course now that im looking to buy they're nowhere to be found on CL :\_

 

Maybe tire wasn't installed properly?

my SE rims look worse than that and no need to put air into them every week

 

This is probably true. I seen many tire places mess up with alum. wheels before, if they dont clean em properly when they put tire on it doesn't bead properly and causes a slow to moderate air leak.

Matter of fact, this happened with the fool who installed my current tires..it had a slow leak like 1-2psi a day....I had to call the company back and have their rep come out to my house and do it properly.

 

This is what ive thought as well.. But ive been looking to get new rims for a while anyway

 

I think Ive decided on some replica rays.. 18x9. Not my favorite choice, but the price is too good to not give them a shot.

Ive always heard that wider rims/tires are worse in snow and ice. This will be my last Chicago winter so I will be getting all season rather than winter tires

Will i die this winter going from 17x7 to 18x9?

 

^
how heavy are those REPLICA?

 

Look into Continental ExtremeContact DWS. Amazing all season tire and really well rated for snow.

 

I have those and have loved these tires the whole time I had em now..

But two knocks on them IMO are the compound is a bit too hard and sidewalls not stiff enough, makes it not the best all season for turn in response.

I'm thinking bout trying these new Yokohama A/S, which are rated basically identical to the Pirelli P zero nero...should be softer compound and well better handling on dry roads.

 

Well, just my luck. The rims are out of stock indefinitely.
Back to square one on finding rims I truly like