Max smokes a new Cobra!

If you the video doesn't come up go to www.vqpower.com and look for the video:

run against mod'd 03 s/c cobra *VIDEO*
so i decided to check out the scene one last time in louisville last night.. hit up the hot spot around 12-1am last night (sat) and after checking out everything and watching the cops everywhere, and police helicopters haha i was layin pretty low... after figuring out how everything worked, i rolled up to the area many were parked and the cops weren't giving any trouble, MANY mustangs.

after a few minutes of checkin stuff out and hearing the normal bs everyone talks, i asked who was the fastest car there. its a pretty unanimous decision thats its this cobra. i talked to the owner later on he listed off all the crap he has done, i dont remember it all, and finally ask if he wants to race. he thought i had a 240sx and i was like nah, that maxima. he doesnt even bother to ask what im running, and shockingly says he will agree to race from a roll, no money. so we both ride out and pick up the interstate for two runs. first run i waited for him to go before i got on it, a mistake, esp. w/ turbo. second run around , we do the classic honk and both go at same time - this is the video i have. keep in mind they run stock what 12.9 @ 111mph ?

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VIDEO

the info everyone wants to know: i am at ~10psi, mevi was turned OFF (my new gear ratios don't work well with my mevi setup presently, gettin it fixed), no muffler just 3" mandrel pipe out the back w/ highflow cat (new exhaust setup coming..).

big thanks to luke @ vqpower for continued hosting!

When did you get turboed?

Originally posted by Pick
When did you get turboed?

That isn't me, I'm not turboed, I posted it without the owner's name and didn't realize it was that way until I had already posted it. Besides look at my profile, I have a 2k this car was a 97 Max.

Anyway it is a great accomplishment that a car like the Max can smoke or hang with a 03 Cobra, those things can hang with a Z06 Vette, now that is saying something.

I'm sorry I didn't post his name, I wasn't sure if that was cool so the story is out there to show people what our cars are capable of.

BTW he is on the .org

you really think a new cobra can hang with a Z06? i highly doubt it...they have similar hp/torque numbers, but the corvette weighs about 500 pounds less, due to the heavy as hell iron block the cobra uses, as well as the corvette fiberglass body panels. 500 pounds goes a long ways in performance. cobra would be closer in performance to base corvette...

actually it does and i have a video of it... it will never win unless the vette driver sucks ass but it can hang pretty dman well. remember hang really means not loosing horribly

-GTi-VR6_A3

Originally posted by thrasher
you really think a new cobra can hang with a Z06? i highly doubt it...they have similar hp/torque numbers, but the corvette weighs about 500 pounds less, due to the heavy as hell iron block the cobra uses, as well as the corvette fiberglass body panels. 500 pounds goes a long ways in performance. cobra would be closer in performance to base corvette...

It's very true just as GTi stated, I didn't say that it would win but it could definitely hang, go over to the mustang forum or the corvette forum and check some of the posts regarding the cobra in regards to the corvette Z06.

As much as I love the Z06, I have to give the stang it's props albeit it does use an sc to make it's power, now all things being equal if you add an sc or Lingenfelter's TT's to the Z06 and it's good night anything on the road short of an all out purpose built racer and they better not be sleeping either.

Originally posted by bk2kmax


That isn't me, I'm not turboed, I posted it without the owner's name and didn't realize it was that way until I had already posted it. Besides look at my profile, I have a 2k this car was a 97 Max.

Anyway it is a great accomplishment that a car like the Max can smoke or hang with a 03 Cobra, those things can hang with a Z06 Vette, now that is saying something.

I'm sorry I didn't post his name, I wasn't sure if that was cool so the story is out there to show people what our cars are capable of.

BTW he is on the .org

My fault. I bitched at the guys in another post for the same thing. Was the guy's name MardiGrasMax?

Originally posted by Pick


My fault. I bitched at the guys in another post for the same thing. Was the guy's name MardiGrasMax?

Not trying to be an @$$ or avoid your question but all I can say is what I've said before that I'm not certain that he would want that so I'm not posting his name.

If anyone wants to know who he is go to www.maxima.org and do a search for this very capable individual and his very capable car.

Also FYEI (for everybody's information) I posted a response to a thread on the Mustang forum in regards to their Kill List and all of a sudden the whole post went dead.

Anybody got any idea what happened over there?

How the hell do I watch the video? I went to the site pressed search and then it turned into another language.

Originally posted by Playboycutie69
How the hell do I watch the video? I went to the site pressed search and then it turned into another language.

I believe you have to join first in order to be able to download from their server, anyway go ahead and become a member, there are a lot of highly experienced racers, mechanics and people who know about modding over there and they can tell you just about everything you need to know about the Max but I'd highly recommend doing a search before you ask any questions.

ok, well this whole cobra vs. vette Z06 thing goes back to the street racing argument...being that a professionally driven slower car can beat a horribly driven much faster car, it says nothing about the actual potenital of the car. take a mustang cobra and Z06 to the track, let a coulpe professioanls pilot them, and the Z06 will stomp the cobra in everything, i guarantee it

Originally posted by thrasher
ok, well this whole cobra vs. vette Z06 thing goes back to the street racing argument...being that a professionally driven slower car can beat a horribly driven much faster car, it says nothing about the actual potenital of the car. take a mustang cobra and Z06 to the track, let a coulpe professioanls pilot them, and the Z06 will stomp the cobra in everything, i guarantee it

we all know it will win. all anyone is saying is that it will not be murder...

-GTi-VR6_A3

Isnt the guy in the video hal aka hlh0501?

I think that's what I saw on the vid. He's the guy that sells the turbo kit, and posted the auto->5spd conversion steps...

Originally posted by Spaz
Isnt the guy in the video hal aka hlh0501?

I think that's what I saw on the vid. He's the guy that sells the turbo kit, and posted the auto->5spd conversion steps...

Yes, since you figured it out, I follow all of his work, that guy knows his schiznik and you can bet that he'll be breaking out that ride's hidden potential to make it the true roadbeast it was meant to be.

Yeah, I've read about his stuff. I want to do his conversion and get rid of my automatic. And, when I'm ready for it, I want to get the turbo installed, maybe work with him figuring out a twin turbo set up

Originally posted by Spaz
Yeah, I've read about his stuff. I want to do his conversion and get rid of my automatic. And, when I'm ready for it, I want to get the turbo installed, maybe work with him figuring out a twin turbo set up

I read about a guy a long time ago that was running a TT set-up on a Max, I think he was somewhere in the midwest but I can't remember where exactly he is or where I read the story.

Good luck with whatever you decide, we'll be watching.

Thanks for the luck.. it may be a while yet though. I want to pay off the car before I do something that could potentially blow it up. Heh.

dude, twin turbos on a maxima would be just plain ridiculous...i'm sorry, but after you spend the $10,000 on the turbos themselves, $5000 for the tranny conversion, at least a couple thousand strengthening the engine internals, as you would have to do, you would be better off just selloig the max and using that money to get a Supra, which prolly would be faster anyways. not to mention, like i said earlier, that a front driver with that much torque would have absolutely horrible torque steer, you couldn't get the rpm's above like 3000 without the wheels going out of control

Dont you worry your pretty little head cheif.. you're not the one spending the money, so why get upset about it?

Everything you've mentioned I've thought about, and there are ways to remedy it all.

Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

a TT max would be nuts. you'd have to start off in 3rd gear just to avoid ripping th tires right off the rim. i think it'd be awesome. if you're willing to spend the money and have the means to do it, go for it. personally i would get one big turbo, unless you planned to have them run sequentially. get a vr4 if you got the money to burn and are looking for something TT and FAST.

spaz, i wasn't trying to be mean or anything, i was just saying that IMO a tt Max would be silly...for all the money you're spending you might as well get a better looking, better performing car. but whatever, it ain't money, and if you like it, kick ass then

Word. Thanks for the support guys. I'll let you know how things are going once they get going.

A max can not be TT'd. Its been discussed extensively on the org and there is simply no room for everything necesarry to run the 2 turbines.

Not to mention that you can get all the power you need out of one turbo. Why do you think Supra owners convert to 2 from 1?

Originally posted by Bluebird from the
A max can not be TT'd. Its been discussed extensively on the org and there is simply no room for everything necesarry to run the 2 turbines.

Not to mention that you can get all the power you need out of one turbo. Why do you think Supra owners convert to 2 from 1?

It might have been discussed but it has already been done, there's more than one way to skin a cat and the guy I read about did it to his Max, I just can't remember where I read it. All I know is that he was somewhere in the Midwest out near Colorado or Iowa.

If they can stick 2 engines in the Tiburon (running about 645hp) then they can find a way to stick 2 small turbos on a Max.
It can be done, does it make sense, probably not but where there is a will there is a way.

bk2k is right, there are a couple of guys up in NJ that were on the org a while back that said they had made a TT setup, they were even lookin for test cars

Originally posted by Bluebird from the


Not to mention that you can get all the power you need out of one turbo. Why do you think Supra owners convert to 2 from 1?

yeah, but two turbos provides boost throughout the RPM range, that's the whole point. you have one big and one small so that spooling isn't big problem and you have boost all the time

Originally posted by 97wvmax
bk2k is right, there are a couple of guys up in NJ that were on the org a while back that said they had made a TT setup, they were even lookin for test cars

That set-up supposedly got you a brand new engine with twin turbos for ~$3500. No proof ever came of it and the guy was ridiculed so bad that he hasn't mentioned it since.

And please, if you find proof of a TT set up, then post it. Until then, it doesn't exist.

I don't mean to come across so negative, but its the truth. Believe me, I'd love for there to be a TT set-up for sale in New Jerz. I'd sell an organ and be there tomorrow.

If you really want me to, I can dig up the thread about the TT max and post a link to it.

I actually like the criticism.

That way, when I have my TT max, the more people i can say 'to hell with ya,' the better. Heh.

The whole concept about modding out cars is to get your car to do something that others say you cant.

I'm sure NOS had the same skeptics when it was first being introduced.

Eitherway, as soon as my car is paid off a bit more, I will have the TT max.

By then I'll have twin-turboed my flying pig.



















I only said it to motivate you. I'd love nothing more than for you to prove the skeptics wrong. We all could only stand to benefit from it.

For the record:

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=173620&highlight=twin+turbo

Warning: Its 14 pages long and you should read ALL of it before you comment on it.