worst thing for max owner

[crewchief264]

I have owned my newly purchased 97 max se its got everything and even have parts on order and on thanksgiving while going into an s-turn hit a patch of ice or something loose??? and did two 360's then finshed the whole thing with a graceful 180--facing on coming traffic! good news didnt hit anything but dirt. bad news i used my car to do it. final damage isn't in yet, but the heres the obivious--right front knuckle broken rt frt tire flat. left front fender has a newly aero dynamic brake cooling duct-hehehe--yea right. oil filter grenaded by broken cv shaft--no motor damage. entire front facia including the radiator support moved an 1.5" -2.0" cool new look. newly purchased clear corners---now minus one left corner. left rear quarter dented on bottom and tail light-trunk -quarter panel mis aligned--now. until the insurance compay tells me whats up I guess i'm in limbo- good news though bought the car real cheap and will make double my money if they total it. well wish me luck. by the way progressive has been a great insurance co.

----I'll take a cheese burger fries and one 1997 maxima front clip please--blue if you got it.

[JBL85]

The car is worth keeping, I doubt its total'ed. My 97 Maxima was my favorite car, if it didnt have 105k, I would have kept it.

[crewchief264]

the total cost of the damages is $4,904.02. so its not totaled and I could've done another 1000.00 bucks damage before that i reached that point. i'll have pics of the damage soon. and the restoration. too bad this happened i was planning onpaying this car off by January.

[n8tuner]

where is new haven? going to IN for xmas, R U near evansville?--trying to get my uncle in a max there.
you"ll just have to try a little harder if you want to total the max, but you can be proud that you outfoxed Murphy!
Murphy's law--your car will need expensive repairs the day after your car is paid off, and the mile after the warranty runs out.
Murphy is usually right, I hate him(her)!

[crewchief264]

new haven is near ft wayne which is about 3 hrs north of evansville.

[n8tuner]

I'm driving from san jose, ca. I love the drive, drove it straight thru in june, no sleeep--41hrs, returned 10 days later, 38hours--no sleep--2,238 miles in my RX-7, which I mistakenly later sold & bought the Talon TSI AWD, which I will be attempting the journey in this time--wish I was driving my max, but needs new autotranny. Gotta make the trip cause my pa is passing away--truth be known, having lived in Indiana, there is not much there I care for--but most of the folks are very kind and friendly,(like myself, yeah that's the ticket!).
Been to FW a few times, very long ago, also lived in Milwaukee and Davenport, born in Champaign----email is [email protected]

[crewchief264]

ended up giving my dad my hood, and ordered a carbon fiber hood--they said it would be 3-4 weeks. when i got it back I had mass amounts of work to do. I installed the following-- in two days time, cai, hks cat back, warpspeed y pipe, eibach prokit, reverse indiglo gauges and needles, painted the gauge bezel, trunk mount battery kit, altezza gen 2 carbon fiber tail lights, strut bar, and kyb agx struts. and a short throw shifter. and it all went great. I did all the work my self and the y pipe was a lot easier than I thought it would be. only problems was with two bolts breakin off in the cat, no big problem, just grind and re-drill--and new bolts ta-dah its done, now where the hell is my hood. so there is the update and it only took a month for my car to get out of the body shop--and school starts on monday what a shitty christmas break!!! but now the car performs like a completely different car--better.

[un4gvnbb]

thats awsome. glad to hear you got your car back and that you did all the mods to it. have any plans on getting it dyno'ed? love to see the results. also any chance of getting pics?

[Craigmax]

Hey Crewchief, I just responded to the other thread. What color is your Max. I drive a lot and have only seen one other black se in town. Also interested in doing a CAI on my baby. I didn't need one to roast some kind in a grand am gt the other night. It was funny how he saw me pull away effortlessly. Hit me up!:flash:

[MaximusGTR]

People that drive Grand am gt's think there $hit is fast, but that car never had a chance against me everytime I raced one. No challenge!!!! Next!!!!