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Great trip with some of the PNW folks this past weekend @Stpickens and his dad in a slick kitted out Subaru, @zakzackzachary @02_Pathy @Citron and @SteelerCam. Ran section 1 of the Washington Back-country Discovery Route and got my technical fix afterwards at Jones Creek with @02_Pathy

I believe you'll need a resistor and a relay to accomplish your goal. The DRL voltage is usually quite low, somewhere between 3 and 6 volts. (Use a voltmeter to check the DRL voltage.) If you tap into the high beams for your light bar, the DRL voltage is still high enough to trigger the lights. You need to add a resistor between the high beam wire and your automotive relay so that the relay will not trip until it gets enough voltage. The size of the resistor will vary based on the relay's "ON" voltage and the DRL circuit's output voltage.

Another solution would involve adding a second relay connected to the parking lamp circuit. So, you'd have to have both the parking lamps on and the high beams on in order to activate the light bar. Note: this solution applies only if the DRL circuit uses a switched POSITIVE signal, rather than a switched GROUND signal. Use a multimeter to check the circuits. I'll assume that the light bar came with its own relay. Remove the relay signal wire (probably 85 or 86) from the high beam circuit where you've attached it already. The light bar relay should be rewired as follows: 30: to battery +12vDC 87: to light bar 85: to new relay terminal 87 86: to ground Wire the new relay as follows: 30: to high beam circuit 87: to light bar terminal 85 85: to parking light circuit 86: to ground

i never posted these! on the way out i ended up cutting my treds on the body panel a tiny bit but it’s not bad isn’t howling and now i know i need to beat up some metal. this was on the tucked side in the previous pics Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got bored today so i took some pictures of my pathy. Theyre the same but i tried playing around with some colour changing and what ever and it looks really cool actually. My bumper is not finished yet so dont pay attention to the back of the car. https://imgur.com/a/S91l9gV

I may get around to posting more details and a pic or two later, but just wrapping up a frame swap. Finally started it up last night with virtually no issues, 14 days after I started the whole project. Not too bad in my opinion. Just gotta wait for a couple new body mounts then put the interior in, then I can take it on a test drive.

I was impressed by how well Rat Trap did in the sand. And yeah, that Festy was something! I think we could've gotten a few more people over there and carried it out if plan A hadn't worked.

Cleanest 1988 power wheels I've ever seen! And you yanked out the real power wheels (half cut Ford Festiva) at the dunes like it wasnt even there! I thought for sure that thing was going to act like a boat anchor

Ran the Gambler500 with @Slartibartfast this past weekend. The original plan was to take the Pines to Spines 2003 LE but I didnt have enough time to sort its electrical problems. So we took my 2001 instead. Really enjoyed meeting and hanging with @Slartibartfast. His rig is one of the cleanest WD's I've seen! The gambler crowd is a pretty wild bunch and there was plenty examples of creative and nutty cars that had all the right hackery to make for a fun weekend. Explored a large area east of the cascades which was mostly new to me and played around at Moses Lake briefly before heading out.

If you have a VG33 there is. Get a turbo manifold off an old Z31 turbo and put a turbo on it. The engine also responds well to being intercooled, bigger injectors, bigger fuel delivery... I had a 88 z31 with a VG30ET that was 400hp at the wheels.

The fact the R50 is actually a car/cross over not an SUV/truck. I am a Nissan Z guy so when I decided to replace my suburban I was naturally drawn to Nissan. I got my pathy with an engine I was already familiar with for way less than an Xterras with similar miles. It was only later that I discovered that the reason the price point was so good is because its not actually a SUV/truck but a car. If the R50 was made today it would be called a cross over; unibody construction, soft car style suspension and suspension tuning, open diff, almost no room to put bigger tires on.... its a car. I've turned mine into a respectable 4wd rig, but a lot of money went to things a real 4wd would have handled from the factory.