I have owned my car for 6 years and 4 months and there were always things I wanted to do, but my car stereo habit got in the way. Well ... I'm finally of the age that I can afford for myself some of the things I've been wanting.

Rims:



Leather:



And to get my quarter panel fixed:



I love the rims ... they are 18x8 35mm offset titanium OZ Superleggera's with Nitto NT 555 235/40/18's. Drop is Tien/Illumina.

Leather is great ... more cushy and comfy and generally feels much better. Of course the look is AWESOME. I wish the tan leather matched the door panels better and I still have to install the driftwood door inserts. The driftwood color that leatherseats.com offers matches the dash PERFECTLY. Inserts will make the doors pop out once installed.

The dent was fixed and the bodywork is very good, but the paintwork is too dark and has some imperfections. I'm going to take it back later this week and have them look at it to decide what they want to do.

Also did my Knock Sensor ... simply amazing difference. I have all my throttle response back. Man did I miss it. And yes I did it without taking off the manifold and YES it definitely sucked!

Let me know what you all think.

 

Gratuitous pic:



More pics to come once I can find a better location. This was just in my neighborhood.

It's 2.0 for Maximafreak.com

 

looks good, love the rims

 

Very nice! I also love the OZ Superleggera wheels, nice to see them on a Max. . . Nice color too !

 

Very nice...must feel like a brand new car!

 

Nicely done maxima... Looks great, and love the embroidery on the seats..

 

Car looks good man.

 

I'm feeling that interior big time.. I'm gonna try to do my O2 and knock sensor this weekend, got the codes for both, hopefully I'll have a brand new car too.

 

who did the leather? Leatherseats.com or ADT?

 

Looks nice! Very clean setup you got there. Keep it up!

 

Ditto

Does it ever.

Don't count it yet, but it's likely. Don't get a rear O2 sensor ... your code could be a fake because you either don't have a cat or your cat is bad. Get a fake O2 (I forget who makes them) ... it tricks the car to think it's a good O2, and it's cheaper than a sensor. Rear O2 does not affect performance.

Leatherseats.com ... very satisfied.

Everyone else ... thanks very much for the kind words. Not that I'm inviting negative comments, but I'm all ears for any suggestions people have as well ...

 

the only suggestion i got is body kit.. it would write the finally chapter in the appearance category

 

my sucky photoshop job

 

bad a$$. i've always loved big hams car !!! from the day he posted pics to s tech drop untill now. thats one sexy rosewood u got there man, specially with that tint and SMOKED turn signals. all u gotta do now is slap on stillen aerokit.

no offense to wiskey97se and meccanable

 

Leather looks good. Did you do the install yourself? If so how difficult was it?

 

dam i love the color of your car, and yes i stillen kit would be just beautiful, it looks like thats the only thing thats missing, but besides that i think your max looks great

 

looks great!

 

Wow, thanks. Nice of you to say

Stillen Aerokit has certainly always been my favorite (subtle, yet noticable), and I'm not going to count it out, but frankly I'm not sure I could take the plunge. It'd be $700 painted at the absolute cheapest and I can't see myself spending that much more on this car. I just wanted to get it to a point where I was excited about it again and all this stuff cost me over $2k, not sure i could justify another $700-$900.

I do understand the suggestion tho ... so if someone wants to donate one, I'll take it.

UTMaxima - Leather was not easy, but not overly difficult either. It was more time consuming than it was difficult. However, it seems the door inserts are the hardest as you have to hand cut them ... I'll let you know how that turns out.

 

Sweet! Are those 2K2DEMAX's old wheels? I love the way they look on the car. You might even think about putting those gen 2's back on the car.

 

lookin good man. The smoked bumper lense goes great with your car

 

leather looks unbelievable i cant wait until i get some. your car looks better than ever. all you need is an areo kit and your set.

 

Love the OZ's.

 

good lookin' car.

 

They sure are ... good memory on remembering Jerome's car. He gave me an offer I couldn't pass up ...

EDIT: Oh, and, I thought about those gen2's recently and I'm a little sad I sold them, but really I'd rather not have any more cop candy than what's already on there ...

Thanks again everyone for the encouraging comments.

 

lookin good. Will pass my final judgement when i see it in person joel

Then, you can cast your jedgement on my new purchase




-eric

 

absolutely beautiful rosewood .. gawd i love that color.. good idea smoking the turn signals!!!

 

clean car...seems the rosewood color is a fav here...I like..I think maybe just a stillen lip would help with the look of the car if not the whole thing.

 

Yeah ... I'm considering a CF lip ... that will need no painting and it's just generally cool

 

Beautiful color...the wheels really compliment it, a CF lip would look sweet on there.

 

Nice dude

 

I always loved the polished 17s he had on before those also, he gave me a good price but I just couldn't come up with the cash. Maybe another time...

CF lip would look great on there, do they make the whole kit in CF?

 

i absolutely adore the color of your car

nice rims, they compliment the car very much...giving me ideas

 

More pics - exterior and interior.

http://www.maximafreak.com/pics/jalbum/index.html

 

Car looks good man! I'll keep an eye out for it. Man, I need some smoked turn signals.

 

i LOOOOVE those orange bulbs next to headlights. i picked up a pair from pepboys but they look nothing like that. what brand r those bulbs man ? i gotta get me a pair !

 

Wow J, those wheels really set your car apart! The custom interior looks sweet also.

 

lovin it. looks real good.

 

Wouldn't look half as good without the Tein's from you guys

98Mike - the orange bulbs are just generics from NAPA ... nothing too special.

 

Your drop looks better than mine does though...

 

FYI on those BTW guys ... those are OEM lights, not euro/clears. Just as easy to tint and cheaper than picking up clears only to tint them