it's 5:30 am and i'm very sleepy, so here i am to rant about somethin i regret durin my 1 year of moddin career:

i started with clear corners, then intake, gauges, sway bar, dash borads, altezza, y-pipe, rice lights here and there, and so on...

basically i shouldn't mod 1/3 of performance, 1/3 suspension, 1/3 show... my car is not dropped and still runnin stock 15s, exhaust doesn't have highflow cat and b-pipe. i regret i didn't focus on moddin 1 area.

 

it's too early

 

 

Mods always come first. You can be make her pretty later

 

Yeah i went a did system first and then performance then handling then cosmetics and now back to performance again. I am all over the place.

 

me too

 

Baby Steps.

 

i went first with clear corners, rims, and a drop. then I bought a system, then I put in a y-pipe, intake, catback, and nitrous(2 weeks). Sold the system and am goign to buy more performance stuff.

 

i went first with clear corners, rims, and a drop. then I bought a system, then I put in a y-pipe, intake, catback, and nitrous(2 weeks). Sold the system and am goign to buy more performance stuff. I sometimes think I am goign really slow moddin my car and everyone else is way ahead of me, then I realize ive only had the car for 6 months and ive done a lot! and that i have the fastest maxima in duluth

 

I bought a universal muffler 1 yr ago and now i want a cat back exhaust but what to do to muffler? its not even worth to sell it or keep it

 

put in on the family van you will be sure to get some looks

 

i think spreading mods out evenly is key to having a nice car. while some have their specific preference to a certain category, as you can see by my sig, i like having some (or a lot) of everything.

 

Re-use it by doing a custom cat-back at an exhaust shop (if you like the muffler that is..). It'll be lot cheaper than buying a full cat-back...

 

i have no exterior mods NONE!!!!!!!!!

 

u should work on suspension first. You have hella hookups here, ie. Turtle Shop. He could take care of all the work u'd be afraid to take to a shop.

 

yeah you spent 5 grand on your car, and now it is time to buy a new one lol

 

Do things in your own time and in your own way. I still run on 15's and hubcaps but so what? My car still drives.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nadir_s
u should work on suspension first. You have hella hookups here, ie. Turtle Shop. He could take care of all the work u'd be afraid to take to a shop. [/QUOTE

yea.. i will take my car to matthel's once i get my sprint and kyb gr2. too much work to pick up tools and spring compressor and krap like tat...

 

i still have the 4x4 look =)

 

yeah and make sure youput in a resonator if you're gonna get a larger
b-pipe

 

Everything I've done to my 5speed max was all worth every penny. Here's the order from about 1 year ago:
clear corners, intake, 17s, red/clear tails, fstb, rsb, ypipe, Pioneer headunit. I have sprints/agx waiting to be installed by my brother.

The only thing I regret doing is shaving the rear completely. It looks so ghetto. I should've just shaved nissan and left MAXIMA.
-Paul

 

I'm just startin out and have just done tint, fstb, and clears in that order. I can't decide what to do next though. I'm debating between an intake or rsb. If I go rsb I know my car will handle so much better combined with the fstb and then i could focus on performance later but on the other hand I want to able to know I have a little more performance then a stock max and also have the sound of the intake. That way my car handles and performs better than a stock max

 

its ok dude, all in all, your going to end up in the same place as everyone else eventually :-D

 

I think a good order is this:

- Handling & Suspension
- Engine/Exhuast
- Looks

 

just get what that little voice in your head tells you to get.. one day is a dash kit, the other day is springs.. next day is a RSB.. one morning you wake up and go straight to the tints shop.. ahhh.. so much fun.

 

If I waited to get one area totally done, I probably would've stopped modding a long time ago because 1)I would've spent a lot of $$$ and not been able to really see a total benefit. If I dropped it, got new springs, subframe connector, rsb, etc but had my stock steelies on the yellow corner lights, and no performance, I wouldn't really appreciate the full effect. I like getting a little in each area until you get it like you want it (which really never happens)