I would like to thank IHAVEA2KMAXIMA for the black roof overlay. I finally got around to installing it and I absolutely love the look of it, I still have to finish it tomorrow, there is just a couple of bubbles I need to work out. I also installed some vortex generators (I call them shark fins, I watch too much Top Gear), So on with the pics....







Props go out to MOHFPro90....I have more battle wounds from your car then my own.

 

dang.. isn't there someone out there that can make those vortex generators all in one piece and 3m tape the bish onto our rear window? like the rear window spoiler..

Anyways.. its pretty nice, but one question, how come you chose to do the overlay? and why not carbon fibah? ahah

Aso, how hard was the overlay to install?

 

I could do a carbon fiber cloth overlay but I think that would be too much with my CF hood (not on the car cause I'm cleaning/repairing it) and eventually I hope to get a CF trunk.

The overlay is pretty easy to do, I followed a write up someone did that I found on the web for the g35 roof overlay.

I'll take some overhead shots tomorrow

 

Cool cool.. the CF trunk costs way too much for me, i have the CF hood and i think thats enough lol

Looking forward to the overhead shots.. i might want to do this. Possibly mod my car more aerodynamicaly wise.

Some mild CF carnards and sideskirt splitter would be pretty nice, depending on a car's overall theme.

 

http://auto.badtziscool.com/how-tos/...-roof-overlay/

 

Thanks for the link.. i was just going to search it ahaha

Did you use your highest outstanding balance credit card? ahah jk

 

I don't know about all that.

 

I like the vortex generators, the overlay is not my bag but it looks good on you.

 

Thanks I need to do your rear diffuser on my car

 

One would certainly complement them. btw where did you get the VGs at?

 

Also, how much did this whole mod cost you?

Overlay and vortex's seperately please.

 

Fleabay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VORTE...mZ300264441365

Overlay $40
VG's $23
Breaking your toe on something stupid and drinking lots of beer to forget the pain - priceless

 

Ahah nice.. i am sober as can be, but il substitute with kool-aid.

I thought the overlay would be more, i actualy want a cf one.

 

I don't know much about the CF, but I don't think it would look natural on 5th gens either, we don't have a seam like 6th gens that seperate the roof from the rear quarter.


I have another project I am working on....here is a spoiler pic with my hairy leg...

 

Sweet they'er cheap too. Ordered.

 

great install! The VGs aren't bad at all. I'm kinda thinking about it myself too
They use 3M doublesided tape right?

 

Groosss.. but besides that, sexy cf lol jk

Is that the front lip? If you just epoxy resin it straight to the lip, wouldn't the plastic melt?

 

I'm overlaying the CF with 3m spray glue... then I will thin out the resin and spray it on and make a final coat with UV clearcoat

 

Yea really really strong 3m tape, I made a boo boo when I had to move one but you don't know.

I really was surprised at the VGs cause I was having second thoughts but once I did it, I liked it.

I wonder if I will like it when I loose the spoiler with the CF trunk. I want to do the CF spoiler but damn over 1k for the combo trunk/spoiler is too much, I can get a black spoiler for $130 or better yet overlay my current spoiler in CF.

 

Ahhhhh i see, I'l do more research.

But, GL with that project, as now il be looking for parts to CF muahahah.

Il be coming to you for advice man.

 

I'm gonna follow dues with the front diffuser and the side skirt diffuser as well

I'm going much lower when I go coilovers, i can't clear a soda can with the new lip, so maybe another 1" couldn't hurt

 

yea i want the overlay, im just afraid to screw it up .... im gonna do it after i get the car painted n dings out

 

looks nice, very original

 

IT HAS THAT EVO LOOK! LOOK CLEAN THOUGH

 

more pics

 

Man my camera is crappy LOL

 

I personally like it w/o spoilers It's more clean to me.

 

I agree too, but I think the only reason this VG's work is because the spoiler adds to it.

A black spoiler on a CF trunk isn't bad tho, but once I drill holes there is no going back

 

My CF hood restoration thread

http://forums.maxima.org/detailing/5...tons-pics.html

I Love CF more then the Wizard

 

wow, all i gotta say is its ur car.


props for nice max, but i gotta say the fins just aret my cake,


i will never do this mod.


A+ for originality though!

 

oh ya, and i like the overlay!

looks nice, to bad my car is black.



lol

 

I could do red mud flaps

 

Fishas FTW! Red mud flaps FTL! I think your car looks really good and for originality.

 

I like the overlay. I think vgs would look better as a one peice but still not that bad nice work.

 

Nice. The fins aren't really my thing but then again they mighyt really pop when u go spoilerless. I ditched the spoilered look when I went with the cf trunk and I'm never going back. I was thinkin of doing a half roof spoiler or vg since my cars so plain. But I think I'm just gonna go super plain and have my cf hood n trunk tinted darker so they don't stand out so much againt my black car.

I just did the skunk strip on my 89 sho silverish body with flat black hood roof n trunk. Honestly it was mainly boredom. But on some cars it doesn't look that bad. Good thing. I didn't use an overlay. I just spray canned and wetsanded. Gotta love pos cars. I don't have the guts to try stuff like that on my max

 

haha Yeah, I can always take this off if need be but I'm not like Josh (I kid I kid) and sell my maxima, I will always have this as a project. I would have my turbo saturn and supercharged T-bird if people didn't run red lights....

I got the idea from a subaru forum really, I was trying to find the measurements for that rear window spoiler they have cause i was gonna see if they fit on my car but came across a thread about the VG's

 

where did ou get an overlay for $40??!!!! I wanted one for the longest time and this would look great on my i30 so please tell me where you got it from.. Looks awsome BTW

 

I'll let him chime in and I'll Pm him..

 

Gimme a PM if you're or anyone else is interested

 

I like the overlay a lot. n3985 has one on his I35 and it looks slick as well. I'm thinking about it. I think it would look cool on my white I30, but the question is would it bubble up in SUPER hot weather? I'm from PHX, plus I guess the car would be a lot hotter... Does the vinyl fade over time or not really? Does it come off pretty cleanly?

Now to the VGs. I don't like them at all.... is there any effectiveness to it? Doesn't the spoiler change the aerodynamics anyways? If you wanted that shark fin look, i think you should've gone with a BMW 5 series fin or something that like. Plus you could probably fit a satellite radio- or GPS-antenna underneath it and make it functional!