hay i have only seen 3 body kits for the 3rd gen MAX and NO hoods. Any one know of any others out there or at least some that can be refitted to work. without extreame mods? any info would be appriciated

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....bon+fiber+hood

 

Well you could hit Autozone and grab a 50" Alum triple level wing!! If your like the idiots around here you can get 12" axel extentions, a HUGE hood scoop and a few dozen decals. Oh don't forget to cut your springs and hang fringe around your windsheild.

 

why would you need a hood?


there are no highrise intake manifolds for these cars


I hear Matt has some body kits

 

don't want a high rise hood but if i could find one in carbon fiber it would be nice or at least one i could make my own ram air with in CF. As for the Huge wing... I absolutly hate high rise spoilers the only one i ever thought looked good on a car was on a race track doing somewhere around 6 to 7 second in the 1/4 mile. Of course that had function!! To be honest i haven't seen a spoiler that grabs my eye for the 3rd Gen Max. AZZ ends to square and i thought about a GT Touring wing like the kind that came on Fierros but after i shaved off the stock i think it looked better with no spoiler.

 

ram air is stupid end of story

It produces no gains whatso ever and was a marketing gimmick. What does make sense is cold air is more dense therefore more power and also the ram air was not what made the vehicles work better it was the size of the airbox area (or lackof)

at 70 mph you see 7/10ths of 1 percent increase in airflow.

How i said that the airbox or lack thereof works is that you have to have an airbox sized/designed large enough so that 1 intake cycle of 1 cylinder does not lower the internal pressure of the airbox,box volume is typically 10-20 times the engines displacement so for a maxima you would need an airbox that can hold 30-60 litres of air at one time. That is why older muscle cars with the carb sealed to the hood,then with a scoop worked so well the airbox was technical the atmosphere so in no way could a single intake cycle reduce atmospheric pressure.

BJ White

 

well i guess that if you put some technical info behind your opinion than it would be rather silly to do a ram air. i just always heard that it helped. of course thats without any technical data behind it. i already have a cold air intake on the car and it does make a diffrence. i just want to change the hood to something diffrent. there really is hardly no character to the 3rd gens hood. and all the hood scoopes i've seen are not really my style. but i think i will get a CF hood that would add some contrast. Now my only delema is do i go with the standard CF or the blue CF?

 

IF you have mad skills. You could laminated your hood with cf. But you'll still have all that weight and part of the point of cf is the lose weight.

 

he has body kits?? and hasn't shared??

 

tell me youre kidding

 

I don't think that he is. They are actaully fairly cheap assuming you provide him with the cardboard and corn syrup needed.

 

i did follow the link provided earlier in this thread and i am going to buy a CF hood off that site but not till the begining of the year... got to love Income Taxs... sometimes

as far as the body kit there is a couple of local shops in my town that say they can make a custom body kit but i would want to see them build another persons first. plus the Stillin kit is growing on me... maybe it's me getting old.

 

by the way THEREALGOON9 not trying to copy you but where did those tail light come off of? also did you fill your center light id did you find another trunk lid that fit. because to honest the only thing i don't like on the 3rd gen Max is the center light!

 

Their WRX tails. IF you do them, you wouldn't be copying me, you'd be copying Shavedmax. The trunk like EVERYTHING else was custom. Alof of ppl use metal. I'm actaully still in the middle of fiberglassing it.

 

ive got pics of what hes doing and therealgoon has skillz!

 

I have been thinking about filling in the center with fiber glass I'm just worried that with my subs it will either crack it or make it seperate. I know i don't have the loudess stereo but i did manage to hit 141.5 dbs at a local show. i think i could have hit a little more but amp cut out. still not bad for a pair of pioneers with only 720 watts peak. but they do produce alot of vibrations. another great thing about the 3rd gen Max is even without Dyno mat the rattle it produce is pretty low compared to other stereos i've heard at the same level.