Ok so I figured it was about that time to start a build thread. I have enough pic's to keep the thread going for awhile so here we go.

I grab a 5spd 4gen from a local member for 500 with a stillen exhaust, sts, popcharger, alpine radio and upgraded shocks and struts. My plan was to use it as a daily as gas is high and my current daily was a Armada which sucks.

The plan was 3.5swap or boost and seeing how 3.5 are expensive now and almost always burn oil, I went turbo. The goal was a very simple vafc2, 370cc injectors, 8psi and 350-375hp as this is my dd and I need the gas mileage to be good.

 

bringing home the new ride, all loaded up, the truck towed this like it was nothing there

 

hard to think no one bought this for 500bucks, wtf is happening to the maxima game

 

got it home and taking it apart to install murano rims, summer only tires and stechs

 

Nice!!!! Thats what I paid for my 4th gens. I don't see how they wouldn't sell fast for that price.

 

yeah I save about 30-40bucks aweek in gas so the car has almost paid for it's self already

 

nice cant wait to see wat tires are those.
com on wats up with the teas just bring it all out.

 

BF Goodrich g-Force T/A KDW NT 235/40/18

 

installed some i30 rear seats

 

Interesting key word...

 

Yeah I was going to keep this as a DD and make a track only maxima for this event. It appears they are not going to have the event which means no track car. So with that said I have a few parts that either need to be used or sold and since lately people seem to can't even give stuff anyway I figured best to keep it.





rear wing deleted, vafc2 installed and 240 rear strut bar modded and installed. installed a front strut bar too but they isn't anything special

 

What needs to be modded for the 240sx strut bar to work?

 

do u still slip around at WOT with those tires or very little,how much grip do they have from a 1 to 10.and do u rub running 235 even at full turn.

 

I had to weld 1inch nuts on the ends of the bar

 

well I'm still n/a but in the snow or ice useless, around 40 they are average but 60 degree's and above they dead hook. Seeing how they are summer tires when warm they feel like my mickey thompson dr's

So I'd said 10 but fyi my buddy has a boosted max and dyno'd at 415fwhp and even on 255/50/16 MT DR's he lights them up in 1st when boost comes in, spins thru 2nd and hooks in 3rd

 

needed to make room for the turbo so I relocated the batter to the trunk

 

well I've seen worst

 

cut out the rust and boxed it back it

 

really great work on that lower rad support

 

time to start modding the front motor mount to clear the downpipe and semi-lock it out.

 

FINALLY A BUILD THREAD!!! LOL! Nice man...looks like it will be a killer!

 

Figured it ws time to get off my lazy azz

 

great progress! also a wonderful price considering the car is in that nice condition

 

nice grab..50 and running? sh8t!! good deal

 

yeah I drive it daily, it does need a diff bearing but I have a lead on a lsd trans and will swap it out when it gets warmer. For now I just try not to beat on it and drive like a normal person

 

filled it with window weld

 

cut out a template for my semi lockout mod while waiting for the poly to dry

 

ok now to transfer this to metal

 

made a plate for both sides and welded it on

 

Looks awesome so far!! I wish I could find a 5spd 4th gen around here lol. I'll be following this threa for sure.

 

notch the mount to make room for the downpipe and reinforced it alittle

 

all primed, painted and ready to be installed

 

cool beans

 

why not box it up on the interior for added strength? every time i see you working i want to go buy a welder lol awesome work

 

I added gussets from the base of the round part down the spine, you just can't see it from the pic's I posted

 

But the one I did for my 1st max and Jean's car without any bracing have been working fine for years

 

installed a stephenmax pftb to dek adapter plate and ported the neck on the intake to match

 

pftb, thanks Manny

 

iacv removed and filled with jb weld, just need to sand it down and make a cover plate for it. Also made a egr bop too

 

vais bop, now just need to clean up the edges