2012 Nissan Altima 2.5 mod gone wrong!

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Here comes my first mod that I did to my 2012 Nissan Altima and it was of course what every other newbie does to his/her car and which is the cat-back swap. Before going in to the details, let me tell you that it was 2.5 litre in-line 4 cylinder engine with 175 rated HP. It was taking all exhaust inputs from exhaust manifold into single catalytic converter and after wards it was Y-exhaust meaning it was having dual cat-backs, very rare for 4-cylinder car right 😎? Here is the diagram for the exhaust system of 2012 Nissan Altima.

This exhaust setup is good enough for better mileage and probably good for emissions as well (to trick someone 😁) but its horrible when it comes to making good sound note from the engine, coupled with the CVT transmission, the sound note even with the best of the best exhaust systems sounds horribly low and bad to the ears 😞

Here is the whole process of swapping cat-back on my Altima. First of all the choice of cat-back, it was Magnaflow straight through 4' street series cat-back. Since it was only cat-back, custom piping had to be done to get it installed. Here is the cat-back picture.

First and foremost, the car was put on rails for loosening the bolts of down-piping to release the cat-backs from its hinges and mid-pipe hook. This part is easy, just loosening of bolts. 

Check out the stock exhaust tips! 

The car on the assembly line, since it was pretty local shop. The assembly line is not a professional one. The stock exhaust removed from the car. The custom down-pipe and cat-back itself can be seen.

Half way through the replacement...! tick tok tick tok...

woala..! after the cat-back installation and test run. Coming to the title of the post, you'd be wondering where it went wrong. In reality, the whole idea was a disaster. There was absolutely no gain in the car power, at least nothing that I felt 😏. It sounded like a hippo who hasn't eaten in ages 😒 and the hum in the cabin was beyond what my mind could  withstand 👽. I kept the mod on for approximately six months after which I felt my hearing starting to lose its sanity.

Below is the eye-to-eye comparison of before and after.

Let me have your thoughts about this and let me know your experiences about cat-back mod. 

See you next time around, till then, xplora_out!

Nissan Altima 2012

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Today we are going to show you probably one the best sedans of its time. When Nissan dropped the Altima's 4th generation in the USA, it grasped its competitors by neck and showed them that this is the force that is to be reckoned with. Although 4th Gen Altima shared a lot of design aesthetics from 3rd Gen but it was real head turned when it came to the practicality of the car.

Even today there are some very good deals available on the 4th gen Altima, especially in gulf countries. This model is particularly famous because of good value for money and reliability, parts availability and best of all easy repair. As of today, 2009-2011 models are available as cheap as $2500 whereas the facelifted version costs approx. $5000.

 

The particular variant that I owned and about which we will talk is 2012 facelifted model. The car had 2.5 liter in-line 4 cylinder coupled to CVT transmission. It was basic spec car primarily known in USA as SR variant. The car was bone stock before it I became its owner. The car had 106k KM on the meter and it was throughout driven without any accident.

The car was one of the most practical sedans that I have owned so far, powerful engine, fairly good leg room, loaded with all basic features like power seats/mirrors/windows/boot liftgate, keyless entry, push start engine, dual climate control along with rear seat air condition, cruise control and Bluetooth connectivity. The car was outright luxurious enough to compete with the likes of Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Toyota Avalon, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima, Mazda 6, Chevrolet Impala, Ford Fusion and other similar cars.

The car clocked 200km/h without any hick up with non-stop spree of exhaust gases gushing out of its dual cat-back exhaust. Although it used to come with a spoiler but this particular variant was without spoiler which made it even more less resistant to drag.

Let me have your thoughts on this car in the comment section below.

Thumbs up if you like it, I'll see you around in next post!

 

The Volatile Time

 Mostly I have heard that time is flowing like a stream of water, but now it feels like time is flying like a gas being leaked from a cracked cylinder, just getting out of our hands, unable to hold it. We are running like race horses on the race course and still we are unable to catch up with it. I always think that why life has become like that, no time for anything, what are we doing with our lives. Just thinking how people were able to do so much in so little time in the past, what has changed now? We have got fast computers, fast cars, fast airplanes, everything has become faster and more quicker than it was in the past, same is the case with the time, it has become fast too. How did the time become quicker than before? no one had altered anything in the flow of time. it should be constant in its flow. but, something has happened to the time that it's just flying away, days months and years, just passing by like life is on fast forward.

It's for sure time is passing at same speed as it was hundreds of years ago. The real problem is on our side and it's excessive multitasking. we have got ourselves in to so many things that we cannot handle them. We are trying to do more things at one time and as a result cannot do any properly. Multitasking is considered good too, but I think it's only good on small scale. When we start multitasking in matters of our life, everything just goes nowhere and we keep running in circles and time just flies away.   

The New Pakistan Show

  

 It has been half month almost. And still people are expecting that Pakistan will evolve into something new. It will be good or bad, no one can exactly tell. But, I think new Pakistan will not be better than the present one.
      

Living Alone, Living on Your Own.

                    It was 10:15pm, I had just finished my dinner and was thinking to wash the dishes, but my shoulders and neck were stiff due to working straight from 10am till 8 pm. Just then my mobile beeped, I picked it up to see what it was, it was just a message from one of my friends, he was asking how my day was, I just replied to him it was busy as usual and had no strength to write anymore on my mobile. I then didn't reply to his next messages, because I was very tired. I placed my head between my arms on the table and closed my eyes; there was dead silence in the room because I was living totally alone now. Then I just drifted into the ocean of thoughts, thinking that how my college life was, living with my friends in a same room. We used to talk have fun and do things for each other, but now, I was alone, working whole day, then coming to my apartment and making dinner for myself on my own, no matter how much tired I may be, I may have a cold, a fever or some other sickness, but now, I had to do it all on my own. Life totally alone was very hard after college, you have to do things no matter how you are and you have to go to work also no matter how much tired you are. 

What Pakistani Youth is Doing the Wrong Way!

So I am not going to write a lot, just will give you comparison of two personalities and then will present the reaction of the youth of a sovereign and a nation that claims to have self respect to the death of these personalities. A nation who foresee a bright future as one of the best Islamic state on the planet earth. From the comparison I would give a verdict and then you'll have the responsibility to let me know about your thoughts and spread the word, Jazak-Allah in advance.

 

Trying the Mobile Revolution...

So as my memory recalls, we in our high school years, probably 4-5 years ago used to see people having cellphones in their hands. Cheap, fairly cheap, average, expensive, fairly expensive and then the out-classy cellphones. People, especially youth used to have a craze, passion and a taste. Not everyone used to like big, boring and bulky bar phones but few with style used to like and keep the sliding and flip-phones as well. The taste of a gal or a guy was one way or the other was judged from his/her outfit and

Pagani Zonda 760 RS

Today I am not here for some cheap stuff for everyday use, for normal people but today I am here for some class, with something which the Al-Capone would use as their private getaway supercar. A car that is worth it, that defines the true spirit lying underneath the company's name and logo. Here I am with 240 m/h breath-taking, heart-pumping, eye popping monster that is both wild and smooth at the same time. 

The Bugged Humans

We see a person around us, who is very active, wants to participate in everything, wants to do everything, wants to get popular; he wants to be the center of attention. He want others to look at him, he wants to be looked upon continuously, he want everyone around him to be mesmerized by him, everyone being drowned in the spell of his beauty and uniqueness, and he wants to hypnotize everyone to consider him as a jewel from which one cannot remove his eyes. This person considers himself as a diamond, the most beautiful and the only one present in this world. Then the whole day passes away like this and  he is tired of acting nice all day.

Why So Many Mehrans Around

We are here in Pakistan, watch Suzuki completely dominating the automotive market. Pak-Suzuki holds more that 51% of automotive market share in Pakistan. Suzuki is so strong in Pakistan in its monopoly that it has ruled out all of its competitors out of business. Some people now call it the successful business strategy of Suzuki and

911 Turbo Evolution 2

CLICK HERE  for the first part of this post where all the 911 Turbos (up till 997) were lined up to show the extreme pinnacle of evolution that has occurred over a period of 50 years in the mighty 911 Turbo. Showing off to the world what the journalists call 'extreme automotive engineering'. Well for Porsche, its all about the precision, always pushing themselves to the edge, to the mind limit of a human being by physically making possible what can be thought inside a man's cerebrum.

Qmobile Noir A2 Complete Review

So after a long time here I am with something for which you people have been looking forward to, it is the detailed review of Qmobile Noir A2 Classic people! from the time you surf on the internet about it, you go to the shop to buy it till the time when you actually get to use it.

Psychopaths In a Psycho-World

Quite a long time ago, I wrote an article about narcissism, and in it, I wrote that it seems like we, the nation of Pakistan, are going towards the narcissism. It seems I made that statement due to my lack of knowledge. Now after studying more about behavior of people, things appear different to me. In reality we are psychopaths, who cannot be defined by any single label, we are the people who are walking on an evil path and consider it as the right one. If you think you are a very right person on a very right path, then it’s time to question your own righteousness.

Our personality is defined by our behavior with others.

TheNews last Sunday

So we are living in a world where everybody speaks about every other thing going on except the real thing. The people love to talk about entertainment, media programs, political chatter boxes, condition of our country, electricity, weather etc etc but nobody talks/wants to talk about the future of our next generation.

It is said that we are Muslims, we believe in Islam and follow the path of righteousness for our own good will but I think we tend to forget all of our moral values when it comes to Media. The so called 'open media' of current Pakistan is going its best to materialize the thinking of our youth and take them morally to a such a degraded level that they do all sort of bad deeds thinking them their right, making themselves confined in a  bunker of 'enlightened moderation'. 

I will catch up with the television later, starting off with the print media, just for an example, consider the picture below that I took from last week's TheNews on Sunday. 

Now most of the youth won't even bother to look at it but then consider this what if a 12-15 year old boy/girl watches it. What would get induced in his mind? The Ad has simply ruled out 'the division bell' between the two extremes, Islam and the fashion. In my point of view, first of all the two Ads shouldn't be with each other in this configuration. 

Secondly the clothing Ad, is this clothing Ad justified in a newspaper of an Islamic State? What would our 12 year old sisters would make out of that? What would get instilled in their innocent minds? This is just one Ad and their are numerous others but nobody bothers to speak against them.

Directly or indirectly we are inducing enlightened moderation in innocent minds of our youth and it is effecting the mentality adversely (Damn right! it is) and the  time is not far away when we will start witnessing the adverse effects of what is going and happening around.

Your thoughts...? The space is right there at the bottom. 

Ebooks 'for dummies'

On supreme demand of 'Adil' about posting something sensible on the blog, here is something sensible that I have got to share with some fine ambitious people.  Apparently it is just an ebooks collection but hold on a second, its not some ordinary written ebook but some unknown writer that you would be compelled to download because most of the people recommend that.

So here it is, its called ‘for dummies’ ebook collection and its by far the best and most comprehensive ebook collection that I have ever seen. To visit the official page  CLICK HERE.

Now I would just shut up and let you explore the remaining. You can find ebook here on almost every topic whether technical or non technical.

And the best and the most important thing, if you are unable to find any ebook for free, you can download via torrents and even then if you’re unable to download then  you can inbox me at icemanfanatic@gmail.com with subject ’for dummies ebook’.