I was in my Alty last night and a friend of mine was driving his '89 HB 5.0. We were on the way to this spot to hang with some other people. So we're driving down the interstate and he calls me. We had some friendly smack talking going on earlier, so he's like, you wanna stop right here and make a run?? It was quarter to 1a.m. and there wasn't a soul on the road, so I agree.

We come to a stop, line up door to door, and he gives me the pop. I take off with moderate wheelspin and get about 2-3 cars out the gate while he is backpedling/feathering the clutch. I shift 2nd still about 2 cars out. Then he pulls 3rd and starts coming for me strong. I shift 3rd about the same time he snags 4th and now his nose is at my rear door. We kept in it until about 130. He stayed right atmy rear door until about 110-115, when I started to pull slowly away. When we let out I was about 1-1.5 cars out in front.

My Altima is a bone stock '04 3.5.

His modds were cai, shorty headers, x-pipe w/ no cats, 2chamber flowmasters, 4.10s, and draglites.


The only thing that could have made me smile harder would have been if I had had some Food Lion bags in the back seat...


Jon

 

Good run! Those newer Altimas and Maximas are no joke. What is Food Lion?

 

It's a grocery chain in the south east.

 

I know a too many people that work on the one over here by me, its sad

~J

 

Hey good run, my friend has a 86 gt with flowmaster muffler and his car is good in 3rd but is slow off the line. My friends 95 v6 3.8 with catback and cai takes him by about 4 or so cars in the 1/4. But when they raced from 70 the gt beat us by about a car to 130. And ever since my buddy with the gt got to be driven in my car he has started looking for a z28 .

 

04 Altima is what the guy who used to own the Camaro I bought to replace it. It looks like a nice car. I ran in to his Dad the other day and he has more tickets with that Altima then he did with the Camaro.

 

How many hours did it take you to get up to 100 in that thing?
hahah jk good kill

 

good kill.

those nissan motors are strong runners. my buddy has a 3.5 Alty and is gonna up the HP to just over 300 or so with typical boltons and tuning... nice sleeper it will be...

 

86's are a sort of an oddball anyway with boat anchor heads and intake and no valve reliefs. They are quite a bit slower stock than the 87-93 5.0's.

 

Good kill in the alti. Those things are bad **** for the class they are in. They own the competition.

 

Thanks fellas!

Wanna hear something really hillarious? I'm a member over at StangNet too, and I was going to post this over in the 5.0 forum. I scroll down a little before I go to post a new thread, and....what do ya know, The title read- Taken Down By A New Altima 3.5!!! LOL! It wasn't the same guy I ran, but still, very funny. So I didn't post my thread, I figured I'd leave that alone since it had turned into a huge argument over there.



Jon

 

Yes sir, I've done a little checking here and there on basic bolt-ons, and it's very possible to get 300+ flywheel HP out of one of these things.

They make CAI, headers, of road y-pipe, and full cat back. All dynos I have seen have showed roughly the following- CAI- 8-10hp to the wheels, Headers- 26-28hp to the wheels, Y-pipe- 15-17hp to the wheels, Cat-Back- 20-25hp to the wheels.

These motors are pretty restricted from the factory...



Jon

 

75 rwhp from full exhaust and a cold air?

 

Actually, it's 69-80whp, from ALL of the above mentioned.

Three things, first, the headers estimate is not unbelievable at all. Any set of headers over stock manifolds is going to help out alot. Second, the y-pipe eliminates two of the cats, is larger, and is mandrel bent. With that in mind, the estimated hp doesn't sound that off. The stock exhaust consists of one literally HUGE mufler down the center section off the car, and two out back. Eliminating the one very large muffler and putting some high flow mufflers out back, combined with larger diameter piping all around will definately help things out. I'll admit that the exhaust estimate seems a little high, I would think maybe more like 15-20, but whatever. Also, keep in mind FWD cars don't lose as much to the drivetrain as RWD.

Lastly, I don't really care. Those were just rough #s of dyno sheets I had seen on various aftermarket sellers websites. Realistic or not, it's not that important. I was mainly just agreeing with HEAVYCHEVYSS.


Jon

 

Full offroad exhaust and cai does about 27 rwhp for my car. It does what 40ish rwhp on a stock LT1 or LS1? No way is the Nissan going to make 69+ whp more with those mods. Most of the drivetrain loss has already been accounted for when the Nissan was stock.