Prelude shmalude....who cares about a stinkin' ricer. I had a similar run in with a Prelude a while back. I'm driving normal & he come flying by & flashes his lights!?!? I blow him off...another stupid ricer. As fate would have it we enter the tollway together & I leave him from a 40 roll. I slow down to highway speeds & he finally catches up, & he wants to go from a green light. We exit...same results. He catches up and says he wants to go from a 20 roll...same results. Then he wants to go from a 50 roll....I'm like, "just face it", you are a looser & that spoiler isn't giving you the extra horsepower you need! Why do you want to get a crappy car & fix it up? In the end you have a Honda with a supercharger?...it just sounds dumb doesn't it.

 

 

Yeah, I'll race you!

I have the 4.6L V8, with the K&N Air Filter, Borla Catback Exhaust, and a console full of stickers to place on the body, if I ever have to race someone...

Let me know, and I'll meet you at Preston & 121, north bound.

Kidding.... I don't race anymore.


I haven't been a racer since I traded my 97 Maxima SE.
Now, you wanna talk about a sleeper??? I smoked 3 Mustang GT's, a hand full of Probe GT's, 1 or 2 325 & 328s and countless Eclipses... I never raced a Prelude- but stock for stock, the Maxima SE was quicker. I did lose to my friend's GT- but he had it modded to about 290 RWHP.

In my truck days, the only car I really raced was these two kids that challenged me at Park & Dallas Parkway- headed south on the service road. They had their fart can, stickers, boost guages and all that- when the light turned green- I jumped on him, and he never was able to pass me... The closest he got was his front bumper on my driver's door!

I got my @$$ handed to me by a BMW M3- but, I knew I was over matched- I just hoped he couldn't drive it.... I was wrong.

I had zero mods on the Max... It was just bad-***, right off the showroom floor.

 

I'm sorry was that a challenge?? or was it just typical forum talk

 

BigHersh:

Ohhhhhhhh ok, you said
"I smoked 3 Mustang GT's, a hand full of Probe GT's, 1 or 2 325 & 328s and countless Eclipses..."
but i mean the 97 maxima is not really a sleeper, i've smoked all those cars in my v6 f150!

The new 02's are pretty impressive, my friend with an 02 6spd ran a 14.1@98 with intake and ssr rims. They've always lead their class. They still aren't sleepers except to those 99+ GT drivers that think they're about to own a family sedan

 

It was just "typical forum talk". That's all I can say now...I need ask my wife to do the rest of the trash talking for me to follow suit I'm just teasing...to each his own; if you wanna mod that thing, by all means knock yourself out. Let me know when your ready to sell it so I can write a check for $500 to cover the value of the car & all the mods. Make you a deal...you take $300 off the price if you have a K&N air filter stick visible on the car

 

I like my rice fried.

 

hey late model, what times do you run, your truck sounds pretty fast. Also, who around here has the fastest L and what does it run? There was a guy around here selling a souped up 2k2 L that was supposedly pushing 500 horse for 27k

 

hoping for high 7's this sat on stock tires at the local 1/8 mile.

 

Im yer Huckleberry....

 

High 7's?!?!?!? Whaaaaaaaaaat?!? I'd never heard of an L pulling off speeds like that. Who has the fastest and whats the time on that?

 

You do know he's talking the 1/8 mile ? That's not uncommon with a decently modded L with good traction

--wes

 

Oh, I was askin about 1/4 mile. I can see an L running a 1/8 mi in the 7's. I was just about to sell the six banger and invest in an L. Can't do that though, I'm the average broke college student.

 

Here is a FACT, a built 4-banger is NOT going to bet a built V8 with the same vehicle weight. If you think that then someone has been blowing way to much RICE smoke up someone's ***.

I am sorry to say, but just because some 4-banger bumped his head in that little itty bitty car and thinks it might be impressive to beat a TRUCK weighing at least 2 times the weight of a ricer has got to stop and think how STUPID it would sound to tell his buddies:

"Yooo Dude, I bet a TRUCK weighing at least 2 times as much as my ricer last night, Dude, so cool dude, and you know I can not tow SH*T with my little itty bitty ricer either dude so cool.

Oh, and Dude check out the extra 10hp I just stuck on the side of my window..."

You put any 4-banger next to a Lightning and the Lighting STEALS the show hands down, it looks faster, slicker, more powerful, and just much more BAD ***.

No I do not own a Lightning, I own an F150 XLT Sport 4.2 V6

I would be willing to bet if I spent as much money on my V6 as some 4-banger and stuck it in a ricer I would kick the 4-bangers ***... However I would never disgrace my Ford F150 motor by putting it into some toy tin can.

 

Come on now....

Do you mean to tell me you out ran an Eclipse, 323, 325, 328 or any passenger coupe or sedan for that matter, in an F-150 4.2L V-6?

Now, most people think the F-150 is too much truck for the 4.6L V-8 (I'd disagree, but to each his or her own) but, I know the 4.6L has more power & torque than the 4.2L V-6..

There's no way I could out run any car (Who's driver knows how to drive) on the premise of power to weight ratio alone. That Civic I dusted back in 1999 should have sucked my doors clean off (Unless it was an all-show no-go Civic)...

I'd have to see that to believe it.

But, for the Maxima- Today, a lot of people know what it can do, so in that sense it's not a sleeper; but- from the appearance (4-door family sedan) it is.

Most people in there < 2002 Mustang GT's, Eclipse's, Miata's, Prelude's, 3000GT SL's, Non-Turbo 300ZX's, 330i & below BMW's, etc... think they have easy prey when they flash the lights on a Maxima SE, but- if the Max driver chose the 5-Sp., and can handle the stick- those other driver's will have to bring their A-Game to beat that Maxima.

The 190 (listed) HP 1995 - 1999 Maxima's were all quicker than the 2000 & 2001 Maxima's in stock form (Until Max's got that power bump in 2002 to 255/260) They used to list the Max. at 6.6 0-60 and 15.2 - 15.5 in the quarter, stock. That's decent unmodded performance today. That's the car I won many races in.

I test drove the 2004 Maxima last Friday night out on 635...... Oh-my-Goodness..... That thing will move, and that was the 5-sp auto... I can only imagine what the 6-Sp manual can do.

Botton line, and again- this is my opinion. I think Superchargers & Turbo's are cheat mods. Of course one should be able to out-run a car that doesn't have the turbo or supercharger.... That's a given. Where I am most impressed is when a manufacturer can wring out 250 - 350 HP out of a normally aspirated engine... Not many can lay claim to that....

Dodge Viper
Chevy Corvette, Z-28*, Chevy V-8 Full size trucks
Ford Mustang, Ford V-8 Full sized trucks
Pontiac Trans Am*
GMC trucks
Honda S2000

Not very many.... Again, much respect to the "Run what you brung" addage, but aside from an air filter & exhaust upgrade, I prefer strong, stock warrantied engines.