Prelude vs Maxima

[Morpheus XIII]

The Maxima only makes 160hp at the wheels? Sure a lot of power lost en route to the ground

Originally posted by JBL85
THe look on Honda Drivers faces when they see they got beat by the same car their grandma has.....PRICELESS...

Hah, that's some funny smack. I thought it was pretty hilarious toasting GS-Rs with a Camry V-6 (I guess the 2 TTE stickers on the sides added 50 hp each :silly2: ). Why does it seem like the majority of the Honda drivers out there are simply uneducated disillusioned fools who know only about loud exhausts and body kits? It makes it even harder for the genuinely serious Honda owners.

[JBL85]

Why does everyone simply look at power

Skyline 276HP, 0-60 is under 5.0 seconds stock, I dont think #'s mean much, its all about the engineering in the car.

[AEstud]

prelude

[mtrai760]

I'm just tired of all the hoopla about how the Max is just so great. Do I think it is? Yes. I plan on buying another one when I get a new car, somewhere years down the line, hopefully Nissan doesn't blow them up into giant heavyweight cars.... But when you go up argueing against other enthusiest swearing the Max is the best thing to come since Mclaren, you just make us look bad. I like the fact that no one knows the performance potential of the Max, it makes the wins that much better, to see the look on there faces, but beat an M3 that runs 13's stock? No, it not's gonna happen. The max stock for stock, 5 spd vs. 5 spd, will beat a prelude, but in the end the aftermarket for the prelude will beat you. You can pour money into anything and MAKE it fast, you just have to 'run what ya brung', as the saying goes. I had someone say "hey look, he brought his mom's car" at the track, before I trashed his turbo'ed civic down the 1/4, but he could have turned up the boost and smoked me, he just didn't know what I was running, unless you do bracket racing and it's on your window. And yes, I own a SLOW high 13 second automatic...

Originally posted by JBL85
Slow automatic? First off....yeah Maxima isnt the best, but it kicks ass

THe look on Honda Drivers faces when they see they got beat by the

same car their grandma has.....PRICELESS...

Maxima is just an overall good, cool, sweet car and look very nice moded. THe 5speed wont pull ahead on a Prelude, it will flat out smoke it, thats the why the Maxima's competition is the 3 series bmw and use to be 5 series competition...i dont know about now....

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by JBL85
Slow automatic?

yeah it is..... the auto max is almost a full second slower 0-60mph than the 5spd

and JBL about the skyline.. everybody knows that that HP number isn't real, that's just the number they have to advertise in japan because they have that agreement that the highest HP has to be 276
fully stock skylines have been dynoed at WELL over 300hp

[JBL85]

Thtas cool news about the skyline i never knew

But about the cars, YOU RACE WHAT YOU GOT, no one really races stock and if you do you know what you are racing with...when I smoke people in my stock Maxima, I know its stock....so I am sure they think its pretty modded....anyhow...this is just to much to compare and I dont care that much =)

[F20C]

Originally posted by JBL85
Why does everyone simply look at power

Skyline 276HP, 0-60 is under 5.0 seconds stock, I dont think #'s mean much, its all about the engineering in the car.

Everybody should be aware that Skyline GT-R V Spec packs more than 276hp. The dyno shows more like 276whp. That's why it is right up there with Evo7 and STi although outweighting them by a lot. STi and Evo7 makes about 300ps.

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by F20C


Everybody should be aware that Skyline GT-R V Spec packs more than 276hp. The dyno shows more like 276whp. That's why it is right up there with Evo7 and STi although outweighting them by a lot. STi and Evo7 makes about 300ps.

uh.. look like 2 posts up, i already said that

[F20C]

I scroll down from the top so I can't see the post on the bottom.

[JBL85]

I hate when that happens and you really dont feel like scrolling through adn reading what everyone else said and you just want to say what you think

[F20C]

Oh well I did add more detail that gangstart missed.

[JBL85]

If your going stick maxima, go maxima if its drag....if your going handling, take the lude.

[joeB]

Automatic Maximas vary.In 95 I drove a automatic Maxima

and it would fly. I want to add something here, I have a 98 SE and

I raced a 96 Cadillac Eldorado with the Northstar engine. We raced

from a stoplight from stop, and I beat him all the way until 90 until

he gave up, he didnt gain on me not one time he just stayed back there

at my rear bumper. I looked up in Car and driver Magazine that the

Cadillac got to 0 to 60 in like 6.4 to 6.6 or something like that. I had a

96 five speed and my auto feels just as fast as it did. My point here is

that you cant always go by what you read in magazines about automatic

Maximas times. Some autos are faster than others.. I would like to add

to for every300m to accords or preludes , none of them have been able

to even come close to beating it in a race. MAXIMAS RULE!!!!!!!!:sun:

[del]

ok, here's my experiences racing maximas with my lude. off the line, he gets the jump. since all of you are aware of honda's torqueless engines so well. then i go into second, catch up and pull on him from that point on. the lude has more high end than the max, but the maxima has the benefit of strong low and mid-range. i've raced a 01 maxima se 20th anniversary from 30mph. started even and again, i began to pull ahead of him. by 90mph i was at least a car length in front.

and don't even compare these two cars on cornering. with all due respect, the suspension on the prelude is far superior to that of the maxima's, that and a considerably lower center of gravity. :sun:

[JBL85]

do preludes have better suspension then a ITR, cuz maxima's with suspension work mess up ITR at the track...

anyhow, about drag racing, preludes are the most fun car to race in a maxima....You can be racing a lude and here the vtec and then it quickly becomes silenced as the maxima pulls ahead and you just hear the roar of the v6.

How many mods have you done to your car DEL, I race stock ones cuz my car is stock...have yet to race a tricked out one