I am on the quest for fastest all motor 4th gen.
I installed a new motor 30K ago along with a newly rebuilt 5 speed in my '96 only to hit a deer 2 weeks ago. Since the odometer read 225K it was totaled with only a messed up hood and radiator support. I bought the car from the ins company for $260! It is going straight race trim. I ran a 14.8 at full weight. Lets see how it does at 2000lbs

 

good luck.... are you going to make your max strictly drag and get something else as a daily driver or just rock the max as a daily driver? just curious.... mine is still my daily driver....blah....

 

I am the happy new owner of a 2002 Jetta 1.8T Max is pure strip.

 

ooh, not a big vw fan, but still cool and still respectable.... have fun tearing apart the max! lol are you strippin the whole interior and everything (ie door panels, rear and pass seats) and what else do you plan on removing (if youre willing to share)? im just curious

 

yeah complete strip. Shedding as much weight as possible.
Weight reduction will be the biggest mod at first. Next i have upper and lower intakes and heads to port.

 

sounds thrilling. i look forward to seeing some dyno #'s eventually and track times!

 

I want a track only car myself. if the car was a 97-99 I would be all over your center console.

 

Do you have leather interior if you do dibs on your door panels. Also nice deal $260 for the whole car.WOW what a deal

 

MZMTG has called dibs on the seats and door panels. If something happens I will let you know though.

 

Very cool. Keep us updated!

 

Geez $260 i should see about buying my max back, seriously. Fix it up enough to be a daily driver and have a spare parts bin as well.

 

It is a hassle to get it titled again where it will be street legal. I have already made 3X the $260 in parts sold.

 

I like it very good idea, just make sure your RACE maxima is faster than the STREET NA maximas or that will be

 

well i tell you, there are some pretty stout street maximas. My major attribute for a while will be weight. Also I am only going after the 3.0 crown
Seriously though, if I can get in the 13's on slicks the first time out I will be happy, especially with stock ECU. The only mods will be Y pipe, Ram air, UDP, ACT and EXTREME weight reduction. Does anyone know if Techno will do a custom programming? like a 100 octane program?

 

I don't think you will benifit from 100 octane unless you run nitrous.

For weight reduction definitly take everything out and get a racing seat. Take out the carpet, headliner, dash if you can except leave gauage cluster. Take out the AC, bumper braces, everything in the engine you don't need, rrun a sideout out exhuast, that will save you some weight from the exhuast. I don't think you can get it down to 1 ton but probally like 2500 lbs. Also gets some lexan made and replace all the windows. That alot of weight right there. I don't know if you can take out power steerring?

 

No you can get a 4th gen MUCH lighter than 2500. I will have all those things you told him to take out and be around 2550lbs

 

sounds like a great project.. get the max looking like this and then toss in a drivers seat !

 

What are you talkng about man? I still see vents and a glove box in that thing