ooops

 

Little off topic, but one of my coworkers just bought a 335 straight from germany, twin turbo 400 hp, 427 tq, hammond edition, he receives it in 5 weeks

 

Damn, I was just checking out that 335xi on edmunds. That little sucker looks like a monster! I guess it should though at 40g's+.

 

ok chern its monday... are you goign to get ssome vids of you drving in it...

or have someone stand outside and watch you FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY by...??? i have waited patiently hahah

 

I'm waiting for the "Maxima from Hell" youtube clip

just to give u an idea Chern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNy-ajRV0U

 

You mean Hamann?

 

That Supra took out!

 

like most of the guys........

its crzy you did this. now i can start saving me money up for the next cppl of years to do this lol.

 

dude i also have sumthin else to say....why don't you go out to get your car in a tuner magazine. i think you would be easy pick for a cover, especially now.

 

I'm going to do a supercharger in the spring if the guy comes through for us...

 

looks good man! very nice!

 

I know a few E46 M3 owners who jumped ship.

 

Chernmax, this thread is becoming very addictive. They ought to just make this a sticky.......

 

WOW, who gives a ****!!! This is a Maxiua forum!!!

 

CHERN CHERN CHERN !!!!!!!!!!!! i want to see some vids... HELP MY NEED MAN!!!!!! HELP ME PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!

 

To my Org brothers and sisters, please be patient, I will post more VIDs soon, but this weekend I spent some quality time with the family (Veterans day, freedom isn't free and I'm a VET!!! ) and I'm sound proofing the trunk area with B-Quiet Ultimate. Not only does the car put out 1/2 the sound as it use to with a CAI, the whistle is also gone after removing the Fujita (Wow this Turbo is QUIET!!!) I'm sound proofing the rear area to make the Bose sound, sound like a Bose!!!



Still a work in progress...

 

Happy belated Veteran's Day my friend and welcome home. I spent time with family and some friends in Philly from maxima org. Great steak sandwiches.

 

Thanks Warren and thanks for your service too my Marine brother during a very difficult time. Who better than a veteran knows "Freedom is not Free!!!"..

 

I salute you chern, I haven't been online at all really this weekend, Thank you for supporting our country.


but to your sound deadening I just did that too my car cause man it was loud, I'll have to get video of my exhaust up so you can hear what I mean. I didn't want my exhaust to be so loud it just happened, cause I don't really have any cats. But on the inside it cut out 75% of the noise out of the interior of the car.

So since you did turbo does that mean dues will do superchargered?

 

Lookin' good Chern, keep us posted on how much the sound dampening lining helps reduce cabin noise, and happy late Veteran's day to all my prior service brothers. Great Graphic Ramberg!

 

Happy vets day chern and all others....


I still have a fever, and the only prescription is move VIDS... OK OK no more hahah

I love you car...

 

Thanks for the Vet shout out: Yeah I bought the stuff because with Headers and the CAI it started getting loud IMO, then I installed the Turbo and holy shoot, 50% cut in sound/noise, kind of freaky, anyway since I had the stuff, I figured lets get the outside noise down some more and keep the quality interior feel and sound. Nothing lose with improvements and I'm all about details!!!

 

I know I'm late but happy Veterans day to you also...

 

Thanks bro, means a lot!!!

 

D.I.T.T.O

lol Hooyah Vets Day!!

(and I have to work) lol

 

LOL, anyone laughs and you'll get blasted!!! For veterans day, here is a pic of me back in the day!!!



Warren "aka Ramberg" trying out one of my toys!!! My Marine bro...



24 years of honorable service stuffed into a box...

 

Like you said, LOL.

I think I've said it multiple times already but here it is again, GREAT JOB on the turbo setup. More videos needed.

 

Very nice rifle man! is that a real one? do they let you keep it? it's crazy what you doing to your car man! I also have an 04 max! and I love it, no problems at all!

 

Sorry for being late too but Happy Veterans day. Remember my son is actually still in Iraq fighting for our freedom right now as we speak.


Sorry if this is thread-jacking

 

When is he due home? Hopefully soon and may he return home safely.

I wanted to join the service, but my heart and kidney problems kept me out of it, that and my mother is whacked but I still love my mom.

So Dues does this mean you will go supercharged since chris went turbo?

 

I havent decided on forced induction or not. I also didnt realize I was in competition with Chern, but my thoughts were in the direction of building the best NA motor I can and lightening the car too. I figure with cams, header, light flywheel, and UTEC, Im good for another 60 hp, but I wouldnt be where Chris is with hp. I can prolly lose another 70 lbs on the car, but thats about it before I go really radical with weight loss, which is something Im not gonna do.

I'd love to build a 4.3 liter stroker motor, but I dont have htat kind of money or time. That would be the ultimate NA motor.

My son's tour of duty ends in about 10 months before he is reassigned or whatever they call it.

 

you could build a 3.3 stroker combining both 3.5 and 3.0 motors, I've heard talk of it around here a while back.

Losing weight is a big thing with these cars, if chern or you could shave 1,000 lbs out of the car, it would be drastic on our acceleration, hell 500 lbs would be nice, but then their goes the total idea of owning our maximas. I plan to finish school and then take my max to a whole new level, by stripping everything out and trying to drop all the weight I can and build it into a track car for weekend play but thats 2 years from now.

 

1,000 lbs is unreasonable to shave off our cars. I think getting the car down to 3200 lbs is more reasonable assuming the weight of the car is 3450 with full tank of gas. This topic is for a different thread though.

 

so chern you've had it for a couple of days now, How does it feel?

 

Great thread, much respect to those serving our country, and those who have in the past

Yeah, how is the turbo maxima? Gonna dyno it?

 

Well I'm all about shaving weight also (no junk in the trunk, etc for me) but when I realized I didn't want to loose the goodies that comes with a fully loaded Max including NAVI, I decided to increase the Horse Power...


To all, the car is running smooooooooooth, still in the break in phase (only 180 miles on her right now), opened her up couple times and she surges!!! I'm getting a dyno tune soon even though I wanted to wait till the tranny upgrade. I just want to feel the raw power and just keep it light, once the tranny is done, then back to dyno tuning...


Dues, god speed to your son for his safe return...

 

is there even a "base map" set on the FTC1 yet??

 

Yes, it was preloaded by Speed Force Racing before they shipped it or the car would have had trouble running with the new 440C injectors...

 

ok, I still wouldn't drive on it too much at all, basemaps aren't meant for daily driving at all. do you have a tranny cooler?

 

Well I only travel 4 miles to/from work and I still need to drive it to break in the turbo and SFR said I won't have any issues with the programing they did. I do want to get it tuned before I take it to level ten for the tranny upgrade, so when are you available? The sooner the better!!! I want it tuned for the drive to Jersey and no tranny cooler, Level Ten said for my setup their 600hp rated tranny will hold anything I can put at it and I'll be happy if I can hit 400whp. I'm good, you know me, I baby my car and will do this right!!!