Maxima Vs Mustang VS 1.8T GTI

[eternity059]

Coming back from my girl's house on a 2 lane road, a riced out mustang revved on me. I look over and see a green mustang with a black primered body kit. He had 17's or 18's and a truck of a wheel gap. I have my nitrous bottle but nothing in it. I was like what the hey, I'll run him.

The roads were completely empty!

I count three and went on to hand him his a$$ by three cars. I thought he may have had a bad start and we ran again with the same result. I concluded that this was a base v6 mustang. He tried to run me again and I just laughed. This was over a course of 12 miles. During the middle of it, a 1.8T Yellow VW GTI saw me take the mustang and decided that he wanted to run.

He ran the mustang and tore him a new one.

he caught up to me and we ran even until 120 before we shut down. At a red light we gave each other 2 thumbs up and he asked what I had. I told him that I had a empty nitrous bottle. He smiled and said dam*, that means you would have crushed me if you were on the bottle. I said most likely and we continued to laugh at the mustang next to me.

He again tried to race us and the GTi and I just left him behind.

All in all a fun night. I'm getting my bottle filled tomorrow.


1998 Nissan Maxima SE 5spd

FrankenCar Hybrid intake, Warpspeed Y Pipe, Apexi Ws Catback, Fidanza Flywheel, Exedy Stage 1 Race Clutch, Tein S tech springs, KyB AGX, 18x7.5 Excel rims, Nx wet kit jetted at 75 shots, Brembo blanks and porterfields pads and much more

[Zwrangler]

nice kill...... Macimas have awesome power for a v6 anyway, besides the mustangs are generally pieces of sh*t unless they've been modified well and if this was a v6 or an automatic.... well then the poor disillussioned mustang driver had no chance in my opinion good kill bro.

[Partizan]

Nice job, did you find out what the GTi was running?

[eternity059]

No I talked to him but never had a chance to ask what he had. I did hear a blow off valve though. I'm pretty sure that it was stock turbo, maybe chipped.

[youngvr4]

or just a b/c and a aftermarket bov. nice kill. i hate v6 stangs, but i love those v8's

[koeb$]

the GTI is prolly faster then ur maxima, but im glad to see that u guys tore ford a new asshole, good work

[duffman667]

yeah it must of been a crappy v-6 good for nothing but traveling. but both are great kills. i used to not be a big fan of the maxima but i like them more and more by the day.

[DkShadow]

Nice kills. Im still waiting for an encounter with a GTi since a friend says they can beat my stang(considering theres some pretty quick ones here). Well just have to see as soon as I find one.

[GTStang]

Originally Posted by duffman667

yeah it must of been a crappy v-6 good for nothing but traveling. but both are great kills. i used to not be a big fan of the maxima but i like them more and more by the day.

Hey V-6's can be good for interior parts too!!!!!!

[civicHBsi91]

GTI's are way over rated

new ones have a bigger turbo and i still rip them new ones, even ones with boost controllers and chips they cant figure out why this pos looking crx is smoking them

they are cocky bastards too, and swear i have the allmighty vtec

[BP2K2Max]

Originally Posted by koeb$

the GTI is prolly faster then ur maxima,

how do you figure? is it the fact that a 00-01 1.8t gti makes a whopping 155 hp and 150lbs of tq? or the fact that it weighs 50 lbs more than a 4th gen maxima which makes 55 more lbs of tq and 40 more hp. even when they upped the GTI's power in 02 it's still came up 10 hp and 30 lbs of tq shy of a maxima and weighs the same 50 some-odd lbs more.

not to mention eternity has an intake, flywheel, clutch, y pipe, catback and nitrous on his max. he's probably got in excess of 200-210 crank hp without the juice. that gti doesn't stand a chance unless it's got some nice mods on it.
i'm not saying gti's are shitty but i don't understand your logic as to thinking the GTI's faster than the maxima. stock vs stock; no way. and a modded vq is not something to toy with.

[eternity059]

Nicely said, I love the GTI as much as the next but I am actually making 200fwhp without nitrous. I am a bit slower since I am weighed down by a 150lbs custom stereo in the trunk, not to mention my 18's. check out me web for pics.

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Originally Posted by BP2K2Max

how do you figure? is it the fact that a 00-01 1.8t gti makes a whopping 155 hp and 150lbs of tq? or the fact that it weighs 50 lbs more than a 4th gen maxima which makes 55 more lbs of tq and 40 more hp. even when they upped the GTI's power in 02 it's still came up 10 hp and 30 lbs of tq shy of a maxima and weighs the same 50 some-odd lbs more.

not to mention eternity has an intake, flywheel, clutch, y pipe, catback and nitrous on his max. he's probably got in excess of 200-210 crank hp without the juice. that gti doesn't stand a chance unless it's got some nice mods on it.
i'm not saying gti's are shitty but i don't understand your logic as to thinking the GTI's faster than the maxima. stock vs stock; no way. and a modded vq is not something to toy with.

[BP2K2Max]

that's a real nice max, man. i had a 95 SE that i wanted to put some work into but after a intake y pipe and cat-back i got worried about my high mileage and traded it in for my new max. i like the altezza's on your car. only certain colors can pull it off.

i kinda like GTI's but they look like old school rollerskates to me. plus the 1.8T is kinda shitty. i had a friend with a '00 1.8t jetta and he got spanked by a bone stock '01 intergra ls, both cars 5 speed. the only VW i could see myself in is a vr6 corrado.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

yea i was going to make a lovely little post on how a GTI isn't faster then a maxima but someone beat me to it. Some people seem to want to take the fastest route to being hated by all.

[BP2K2Max]

Originally Posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K

yea i was going to make a lovely little post on how a GTI isn't faster then a maxima but someone beat me to it. Some people seem to want to take the fastest route to being hated by all.

yeah, brazen unqualified statements are the best way to go about that. lots of people sleep on the maxima's ability. they'll learn one day.