beancooker wrote:
Unless you S/C, T/C or spray N2o in the Versa, you will not have a chance at walking a 3.5 Altima or even my Maxima for that matter.
The 3.5 Altima I raced was one of my best friends. He WAS flooring it. I drove his car, rode in it, and raced it before. On paper, even if his Altima was sick, he should STILL kill me. I beat him every time. From a dig, roll, or hwy roll.
I've also seen his Altima take down and run with faster cars.
I don't know about ur Maxima (mods, etc), but the one I raced was a 1997-1999 stock white manual one. I used to have 2 Maximas myself, a 93 manual and a 97 manual, and my dad has a Maxima too, so I know what the 3.0VQ pulls like. It's not that fast stock IMO (restricted), but modded it is!
He (the white Maxima) WAS racing me, because we talked, agreed to race, and did about 5 runs, 3 of which was from a stoplight 0-60-70, and 2 from a roll, up to 60-70. I beat him every time, even when I waited for him to take off first getting a half car jump on me. Even he said he can't believe that I walked away from him. I don't either, but it happened. Even if his Maxima was sick, he STILL should have killed me, even with driver error and he said he didn't mess up his shifts, but I won still.
I would go on about the other races, but it's pointless here. I'll start getting some vids up to back my stories.
ON A SIDE NOTE....
The V's engine is a STRAIGHT TURD if you haven't driven it hard while breaking it in. If you have broken it in by driving it hard, it performs like an entirely different engine. Of course this doesn't mean it's a Skyline, duh, but it has a totally different acceleration.
Most of the Vs tested with 0-60 1/4 mile numbers that I'm aware of were not driven hard UNTIL broken in, that of which made it much more sluggish to test in comparison to a driven hard broken in engine. Again, I'm not saying that the difference is like slapping on forced induction, but there is DEFINITELY a noticeble difference. Especially after you drive other Vs.
Call it U want to blow up your motor if you want, but it does perform COMPLETELY like a different 4 cylinder.
It's just too much that's new to the V to know the whole deal about it in all aspects. Even the Turn3 V was rushed and thrown into it's comparison test with any time to test and tweak anything
Modified by blackversaatl at 5:10 PM 5/22/2007
Modified by blackversaatl at 5:25 PM 5/22/2007