If it's a repost, it's been awhile...although I never knew about it.
Apparently the weight shown below (located under that little hump thing at the back of your trunk) is in all GXE models for weight distribution / ride comfort or something...Don't know for sure, but I heard SE's don't have this thing. It weighs 20-25 lbs and is completely useless...

Besides, my subwoofer / box is mounted in almost the same spot and wieghs almost the same, so my ride comfort isn't affected!



Just an FYI for newbies (and old pros who never knew about it...)

 

that was a nuclear transceiver. it was part of japan's plan for revenge over Hiroshima

 

I'm going to make you eat Mr. Hanky for posting such old crap. I thought you were actually going to post something useful.

 

Sorry, Matt...

Well, if you really want to lose weight you can ditch the motor...if you can manage only to drive downhill...

Like I said: FYI for newbs

 

Here, I got one: remove the high-density foam piece and bumper reinforcements from behind the bumpers - if you don't care what happens to the car in an accident.

 

dude shhh you're giving Aaron92se crazy ideas

 

remove cruise control, get a smaller (hawker) battery, fiberglass fenders/hood/bumpers/trunklid, remove that god awful weight you found, and replace various steel reinforcements with lighter and stronger aluminum ones....etc. etc.......

 

WAY ahead of you!

 

oh i got a lot more than that....just didnt have time to type them at the time....

 

Let me guess, replace all glass with plastic.... remove seats and get foldable ones. screw rear speakers, you got fronts. Who needs carpet when you can have table cloth. air? eff that, use hydrogen. 190lbs? son you need to excercise and burn fat.

Lets see what else...
screw rear brakes you only use the fronts anyway, power rear windows? bla real racecars like SRT4s have crank in the rear and you should too.

Bla screw it, I'm tired

 

well some of what you say is effective, but the maxima is still meant for luxury as well, so no need to remove the amenities that are commonly used (minus the cruise) lol

also, getting lexan windows might be a PITA for the maxima.... ;x

we've done a decent amount of weight shaving lately...and there's more to come. ;x

 

i thought that thing was some sort of vibration dampner

 

bingo right on that one, but what is more important to you comfort or speed, you do drive a maxima after all. anyone that took theirs out wanna send me their bolts I wanna put mine back in.

I read a book where japan hid nukes in cars only in there it was in the alternators

 

so it is a vibration dampner?

 

Or you could rip out the sound deadening tar thats under the carpet. It does barely anything to help NVH and its pretty heavy.

~Alex

 

mainly to reduce road noise, but yes that's what it is.
I noticed no difference in chassis vibrations or road noise when I took it out of my old GXE 10+ years ago.

 

What about weight distribution? Doesn't it help with that? If you remove it are there better ways to improve the weight distribution for handling's sake?

 

it's a 20 lb weight, you keep more than that in your trunk in trash.

 

I dont, just a 155pc. mechanics tool set and subwoofers

 

I'll bet all of that weighs closer to 50 lbs depending upon the quality of the tools and sub

 

What about the dead bodies?

 

I'm certain that my sub and box weigh at least 20 lbs.

 

Tools are about 10-15 lbs if you ask me and subwoofers are probably 35...

 

BTW ben, my 90 SE had it. I took it out a long time ago...

~Alex

 

that 20lb isn't going to make a difference in weight distribution. have any of you actually corner-weighted your cars? and I don't mean just driving the front end on a truck scale then backing up to it.. a good, quality corner weight system.

cliff's notes: you'd have to move about 400lb from the front to the back in order to even out the weight distribution. that 20lb is a drop in the bucket.

 

I wondered what that log was. I was thinking vibration dampening since it's not a flat mounted lump of steel.

 

FYI...my 91 SE has one in the back...

 

Then you don't have an SE......

 

YES I so have an SE...a 91 SE...

 

Pics?

 

 

Looks like an se to me.

 

W/ a GXE grill, tho...Must be a hemaphrodite Maxima...part GXE part SE...

 

doesn't look like it has the GXE padlock

 

He does have black mirrors but cant quite tell on the keyless entry pads. I believe Alex V also had it on his 90 SE... perhaps its the VG SEs that had it?

 

oh yeah.. it's a VG.. I think I remember reading somewhere a while back that all the VGs had the weight. the VGs were already slow enough, so I guess they figured another 20lb in the trunk couldn't hurt. poor saps, you VG owners.

 

poor vg owner? tap tap tap tap tap tap sorry I couldn't hear what you were saying over the sound of your VTCs.

 

now now. Remember, we are all blessèd children in God's ever-loving [3rd gen maxima-owning] family.

 

I'd rather have my VG than my neighbors VE that has that notorious ticking...ahhh man every time she starts it up...i have to resist laughing...but the VG's has pretty nice power...and is a V6...not a 4 banger...

 

my gxe will do a 16.3 with an exhaust leak. all i have is WAI and some of Aaron's spacers. hp gain at wheels maybe 6 from those mods.