Just curious, are there ANY stock 5th gens that make the supposed 6.6 second 0-60 and 14.9 1/4 mile according to zeroto60.com? I know personally my 20th ae is slowwwwww, I wish it lived up to the times it used to be capable of new out of the factory.

 

They don't get slower....the 20th AE is A 01 right?.... how are you knowing its slower lol? You got one of those 0-60 apps or something? Learn to launch from the pros here

 

Yeah I've clocked it both with hand watch and the torque pro app. Reading 8-9 seconds 0-60

 

Is you car a 5MT or 4AT?

If it;s the 4At which I assume it is since you have time to look at a clock while testing said time, then no, it would be ion the lower 8 second time.

 

On my 02 maxima
I feel liek its slowtoo but it might be cuz i dont know how to launch

 

Magazine times vs real world times, too many variables. I tested mine many moons ago @ 5600’ elevation with a handful of mods using the signal from my VSS and it was in 6.2x sec range, verified through Cipher …not bad for a mile high automatic w/minimal bolt ons.

 

See i was thinking stock MT would make 6 secs so i dont think its that bad

 

That's what the magazines got for the 6MT stock, but keep in mind, altitude plays a HUGE role, bigger than any of you guys can imagine.

 

Interesting any kind of formula for calculations

 

Stock 5.5 6 spd record is 14.01 (@ 100mph I think) from John...but I haven't heard or seen him in years. He was using street tires.

Idk what the fastest auto 5.5 time is...but I know that 14.6 can be achieved on street tires (a friend also ran that). I believe that's probably the limit bone stock.

 

I've got a 4AT, that's what the dilemma is, I don't know why it's so much slower than its supposed to be.
Also, I am at very low elevation and I'm not a big dude, either.

 

Cats are probably clogging. They don't fail like the 5.5s, but they can clog with carbon all the same.

 

^^^^ +1 !!!
Child_ is right; my car (2k/3.0L) became noticeably faster after the CA DMV forced me to replace my pre-cats last fall.

 

.... you dont know why... how about a 15 year old car ? its not like this is a brand new car, and two like nmexmax said paper world vs reality....

 

Cmon...everyone knows the 3.0 doesn't age if maintained. Even on the 3.5 I had 175 psi across the board at over 180k miles.

 

Would you recommend pre cat replacement or the cat itself

 

Pre-cat for sure.

 

On your comment the other day, is the auto really over a second slower than the manual?

 

VQ30's, yes, VQ35's no.

 

I have an I35, car and driver tested it and got a 15.3 quarter mile. Well I took mine to the drag strip, bone stock and got the same time, well I was very happy to know that after 12 years, the performance has not hindered one bit. Of course these are slower than the maximas but not by much reading from your 14.9 1/4 mile times

 

Low end torque is sucking pretty bad with my car, I'm glad yours are doing well

 

My 95 was pretty bad vs my 03. How's your knock sensor doing? That gave me quite a bit of low end back when I changed that thing.

 

I have no idea... I don't hear any knocking, at least I don't think so

 

No, if it goes you won't hear knocking, it will go into fail safe and retard the hell out of your timing.

Check your codes and ghost codes, typically would be stored as a ghost code on 4th gens.

 

I have a code for the dreaded p0505 that I haven't fixed... been two years now

 

I had a transmission shop put in the spec v 4.42 final drive ratio w/ stage 2 and light flywheel.

The car flies from 20 km/h -> 170 km/h... Don't have to shift 4-6k


It does okay against the torque happy diesel cars too

Downside is the car's just plain annoying to DD due to the amount of shifting required in the city.