Evan’s 2009 Nissan Maxima
Evan’s 2009 Nissan Maxima
This car originally started out as a simple daily driver, and has evolved into my ultimate project car. I didn’t want to take anything too far, just subtle touches here and there to compliment the existing look and performance of the car. It is by no means a race car and I won’t pretend that it is, but it is definitely not slow and can be hella fun to drive.
Evan’s 2009 Nissan Maxima
Most people know the car for it’s unique customized headlights and sequential tail lights that I researched and built on my own, both the first of their kind ever seen on a 7th gen Maxima. The car recently had some finishing touches added in the form of STILLEN’s bodykit and a custom fiberglass rear 4 fin diffuser, which I feel like really add to it’s aggressive overall look. All that’s really in the plans for it now is a quality BBK, coilovers, and looking at new rims next year to change things up.
Overall I love my 7th gen, it is the perfect daily driver that has become the ultimate project car for me.
Daniel Evan’s 2009 Nissan Maxima
- Custom ceramic-coated true cold air intake
- CXJ block off plates
- CXJ phenolic thermal intake manifold/throttle body spacers
- Racingline Y-pipe
- Borla cat-back exhaust
- Stillen underdrive/lightweight pulley
- Stillen oil cooler kit
- Uprev dyno tuneSuspension:
- Eibach Pro Kit lowering springs
- Racingline front strut tower bar
- Stillen rear sway bar
- Racingline front and rear endlinks
Braking:
- Alien drilled/slotted rotors
- Goodridge stainless steel braided brake lines
- Motul DOT4 brake fluid
- G2 black painted brake calipers and rotor hats
Wheels/Tires:
- 2009 OEM 19″ 370z Rays (staggered), Hankook Ventus V12 245/40/19 all-around
- 2009 OEM 18″ rims, OEM RS-A’s
- Ichiba v1 spacers : 10mm front (Rays/OEM 18″)
- Ichiba v2 spacers : 20mm rear (OEM 18″ only)
Interior:
- GT-R start button
- GT-R paddle shifters
- Padholdr EDGE Universal Tablet Mount
- Alpine M-500 amplifier
- Alpine 1242D 12″ subwoofer
- OEM All-Season floor mats
- 2012 Maxima illuminated kick plates
Exterior:
- Stillen front lip, center painted black
- Stillen side skirts, with scoop painted black
- Custom LostCreations rear diffuser
- 2012 OEM sport grill painted black
- Roof wing spoiler
- 30% tint all-around except windshield
- Tinted tail lights
- Gloss black vinyl wrapped chrome window trim
- Debadged MAXIMA lettering
- Color-matched chrome on trunk
- OEM splash guards
Lighting:
- Custom headlights : Dual 7k Umnitza Orion v2 LED angel eyes, 6k custom Iron Man, RGB demon eyes, black/radiant silver painted housing, tinted sidemarkers, Morimoto high beam projector retrofit
- Custom sequential taillights: retrofitted with additional LEDs and custom sequencing circuit
- V-LEDs type 2 Switch-back DRL LED strips in lower fog grill area
- Full exterior V-LEDs conversion with V-LEDs switchback turn signals
- 5k 35W TheRetrofitSource HID low beams and fog lights
- Full interior 6k V-LED conversion
Other:
- Viper 5902 with lots of add-ons
- Custom painted engine bay covers
- Yellowtop battery, relocated to trunk
- Racingline grounding kit
Planned:
- BBK
- Coils
- Headlight update
Moncef Faik’s 2001 Nissan Maxima SE
This Maxima has made significant progress over the course of the past few years. Initially working on a college student budget, the car began life with its current owner as a completely factory spec Anniversary Edition Maxima. Completely stock, with the 3.0L VQ30 engine. Initially, this car was intended to be an everyday car, but soon turned into a performance experiment. Modifications began with an Exedy OEM clutch & Fidanza lightweight flywheel, and a JWT intake.
Moncef Faik’s 2001 Nissan Maxima SE
Afterwards came the v2OBX headers and Cattman exhaust. This was during the time that tuning the ECUs on these cars was a difficult task due to the lack of support. A GReddy e-Manage Ultimate was installed and has been the primary tuning tool for this Maxima. After the basic bolt ons were done, modding got very serious. Coilovers and G35 wheels followed, along with other small touches such as varying stereo equipment and HID setups, and finally the JWT S1 cams. The owner wanted to get the absolute most he could out of the 3.0L platform without swapping to a VQ35, and it was done using the S1 cams, VQ35HR valvetrain and ported heads, along with an 82mm MAF and larger 3″ Cattman exhaust, allowing this engine to make 250whp @ 7500 RPM on a Dyno Dynamics dyno.
Moncef Faik’s 2001 Nissan Maxima SE
The Exedy clutch started to slip, and at that point it was decided to swap to a VQ35. The VQ35 would use the existing 3.0L heads to bump the compression to ~11.8:1, and the bottom end was bored out to 3.6L. It was also beefed up with ARP main & head studs, rod bolts and ACL Race main/rod bearings for sustained high RPM activity. A gutted VQ35 intake plenum and Pathfinder throttle body sit on top of the engine, connected to the same 82mm MAF used previously. On the cosmetics side, the wheels have been changed to a set of XXR 009s, and the factory headlight housings have been switched to retrofitted projectors. A Pioneer touchscreen head unit and Vip’dOut VIP tray resides in the dash (James Church @ vipdout.com was a huge help with this). The car is awaiting a proper dyno tune and some smaller pieces to finish it off. This was an ultimate R&D project and far from an off the shelf setup in its current and previous forms.
Moncef Faik’s 2001 Nissan Maxima SE
Mods:
- VQ35DE block, stock pistons and rods – bored 40 over.
- ACL Race main bearings & rod bearings
- ARP head studs, main studs, rod bolts
- Polished 350Z crankshaft (same as A33 model)
- Ported/worked 3.0 heads with JWT S1 cams and HR valvetrain (compression ~11.5-11.8)
- SSIM, PFTB, 82mm MAF
- e-Ultimate/AEM wideband
- v2OBX/equal downpipe
- 3″ testpipe/3″ Cattman
- STOCK 5MT, Exedy stg2 clutch , Fidanza flywheel
Check out some videos on Moncef’s YouTube page located @ youtube.com/monceffaik