My 2016 Maxima was purchased January 17th 2016. Brand spanking new. I quickly started doing small mods i.e. Tints, led conversion and caliper paint. As time went by I realized what a beast the Maxima could potentially be.
I started digging deep into my creativity and pockets to create my dream built. I started reaching out to local companies in hopes of getting sponsored. I then got sponsored by impulse automotive in Lanham, Maryland. Soon after that I was sponsored by Vossen wheels. I got my set of Vossen wheels for a price I cannot disclose After my wheels ,I saved up my money to buy the airlift 3P management system. Then got installed by Luigimotorsport in Laurel, MD. This was when I started getting a lot of publicity from the larger companies. I reached out to Stillen and they agreed to sponsor me as well.
Now is where the fun started happening. I made appearances at the ocean city car show, import expo at the dc convention center and clean culture x import expo at FedEx field. I quickly started gaining attention and winning prizes at the shows I attend.
Now my little beast has been on Nissan’s page, as well as Stillen and Vossen’s page. 2 major companies in the car world. This car is my daily driver but doubles as my car show beast. I call it my baby GTR. It has the GTR steering wheel and the GTR exhaust tips. As close to a GTR as I’m ever going to get.
Mod list: Full interior LED package, Apple iPad vent mounts, front fog light and headlight HID conversion, Engine lights, Mirimoto rgb demon eyes , starry night angel eyes, Stillen front splitter and rear diffuser, custom carbon fiber front splitter and carbon fiber rods, custom side splitters, Bc coil overs and UAS sport bags. Airlift 3p management system, sundown audio 15″ zb4 subwoofer and soundstream 2500 watt amp, stillen intake, CXJ performance intake manifold spacer, full custom 2.75inch piping exhaust with gtr 5′ Titan tips. Painted brake calipers, Vossen vfs-6 wheels wrapped in Nitto invo tires.
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 grabbed a 5spd 4gen from a local member for $500.00 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.
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 500 bucks, WTF is happening to the Maxima game.
Needed to make room for the turbo so I relocated the batter to the trunk
Well I’ve seen worse….
Cut out the rust and boxed it back it
Time to start modding the front motor mount to clear the downpipe and semi-lock it out.
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
Notched the mount to make room for the downpipe and reinforced it a little
All primed, painted and ready to be installed
Installed a stephenmax pftb to dek adapter plate and ported the neck on the intake to match
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
OK now for the good stuff
1st part of the feedpipe
Starting on the 3inch dp
Wastegate added
Routed the wastegate back into the exhaust seeing how I hated the sound of a open dump on my old car
Feed and downpipe both runs under the oil pan
Added a support bracket on the dp to the trans mount and started to heat wrap everything with lava wrap
Ok so I don’t have a turbo yet and need to keep this project moving and the car driving to save gas. So I made a turbo bop so I can mount the hotside and still drive the car
Done
Exhaust housing and turbo bop installed now just need to make something to connect the dp to the catback
Another angle
Downpipe on
Made a the second half of the downpipe to connect it to the catback in the stock location. I also added a bullet muffler where the car would have been to help keep the noise down. All I want to hear is turbo spool and bov
I am currently driving the car with the turbo bop and hotside install. Next up is to install the coldside while I’m waiting for my turbo in the mail. My goal is to save the foglights so I cut a hole in the rad support and ran the lower intercooler pipe through it.
Ran into a problem didn’t know the foglight brackets bolt to the bumper support. Got to figure this out
Retained the bumper support ends, welded some extra support brackets to them and bolted the passenger side on but had to gut the drivers side so I could run the intercooler pipe inside and welded that it on the body.
Painted the intercooler black
Put the bumper cover back on a ran into a new problem
This is how I fixed it, I extended the light harness and moved the bulb from the center to the end of the lens
How it looks with the bumper back on
Tinted the fogs
Added a stillen front lip
Running the rest of the intercooler piping
Made a intercooler pipe bead roller so I don’t have to keep running to the shop
Intercooler piping from turbo to intercooler is done and rolled, yep one pipe that’s it
3″ intake pipe so I can retain the IACV
Rolled
Solid one piece cattman MAF adapter
Turbo came so I ran the intercooler piping to the tb
Found a good deal on some coilovers with one blown strut so I sold my blues and stechs
Had to make some brake line brackets out of some sheet metal I had sitting around
Scored some 5.5gen calipers, brackets, pads and rotors for cheap
4gen vs 5.5gen
All buttoned up
So I dropped the car another 1/2inch all around over the stechs for a total of 2.75 front and 2.3 rear
Another angle
The stock drivers seat had a tear in the leather and I couldn’t find a decent replacement for less than 100 bucks. So I got a pair of these with sliders for 258shipped
Since no one makes brackets for a decent price and I had no clue if the ones I found would fit these seats I made my own brackets out of the OEM seats
Welded the brackets directly to the seats
All buttoned up, just need to figure out the seat belts now
New gauge pod with a wb02 and vac/boost gauge
Turbo came, gps gt35, t4, off center, 3inch vband dp, .68 exhaust ar
The pftb, 2013 GTR injectors, vias bop, ported 00vi, cleaned, painted and ready to be installed
1st up timing cover
So I treated myself to a racing jacket, another vafc2 since mine took a crap and going to upgrade some of my intercooler piping from 2.5 to 3inch
New engine bay pics with 3inch intercooler piping, more deleting, cleaning and polishing
Did some painting too
Aas you can see I blew my MAF apart which is common but nothing rtv and zip ties can’t fix, lol
ditched the crappy looking rusty oem rad brackets for these
finally scored a pathfinder bose radio
ordered a meth kit
Went to a dyno meet the following day and made 300hp on 7psi with the spark blowing out
Year: 2002 Model: Maxima Original Color: Chrome Silver Metallic (KY0) Dipped Color: RL71 Pearl Transmission: 6-Speed Manual Trim: SE
What motivated you to MOD your Maxima?
Almost nobody around my area knew what Maxima’s were or what they had in them. So modding it made me have something different from everyone else. Also it would surprise some people considering they’re decently quick for what they are. – Trent Cassidy
This post will go into detail about the Maxima that you have either heard about or seen in the movie “The Fast and the Furious”. Below is a rundown of what has been done to this car and a little bit of history behind it.
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FEATURES:
Stillen Supercharger
Dodge Viper GTS Blue paint
Reverse mounted louvered hood
13-inch AP Racing brakes with 6 piston calipers
Stillen Suspension and strut tower bars
18-inch HP Racing chrome wheels mounted on Toyo tires
$20,000 audio system which includes 3 TV’s, DVD player, Playstation, 5 JBL Amps, and 3 12-inch JBL W12GTi subwoofers
Interior neon and strobe lights
Under body blue neon kit
Stillen body kit
Custom exhaust system
Blue carbon fiber dash kit
Autographed by the actor
30,000 original miles with air conditioning, tilt steering wheel,
factory moonroof, and heated leather seats with blue suede
upgrades.
CAR HISTORY:
The car was owned by Craig Lieberman, Technical Advisor to the movie. The car was purchased new in 1999 as a daily driver. After undergoing some mild modifications, the car went under the knife for a complete makeover in the Spring of 2000. Dodge Viper GTS blue paint was sprayed over the Stillen-enhanced body. With a custom reverse-mount hood (like a Viper), the car was the most modified Maxima known at the time.
For performance modifications, the car went to the leader in Nissan performance, Stillen, who added their supercharger kit and other accessories, including a Formula one braking system from AP Racing. The car produced 221 hp to the wheels. A Veilside carbon fiber wing and Bomex side mirrors from Japan round out the car’s exterior styling.
For the interior, Trimmasters provided a one-off blue carbon fiber dash kit and Stitchcraft provided the upholstery work. A $20,000 In-car electronics system comprised of extensive Audio/video component was installed as a Clarion/JBL/Infinity joint venture with the latest offerings from each company finding their way into the car. The car’s three huge JBL W12Gti woofers weigh more than 20 lbs. each with a special support system needed. The car’s five JBL amplifiers produce more than 4000 watts and required two additional batteries to support the electrical load.
Other lighting and trim accessories were provided by Toucan/Ractive/Eurolite and can be found throughoutthe car. The engine compartment was dressed by Hose Techniques. Motegi Ro_Ja wheels were produced just for this car and custom suspension work was done by Ractive.
The car was used by the character Vince” played by Matt Schulze in the movie.The car was used in a few action and chase sequences. The car’s performance mods were performed by Stillen in preparation for the movie. One sequence in the movie, a fight scene between “Brian” and “Vince” damaged the quarter panel and doors. The studio repaired and restored the car to perfection.
The car was valued at $75,000 during this time and era.
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