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No way, man. The strut assembly was off the car and the compressors were only compressing 'em so you can get the strut out. I tried em a 2nd time after the first one blew apart, this time with a friend overseeing the process. We both agreed these things were unsafe. Here's how the process went. Check out the compressor this guy's using. I think that's a Troy 1-ton. http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/574720 Found that 2-ton thing for $110 on eBay... Considering I still have to do the rears on the car and am thinking about switching to OME springs for the Pathy (see my build thread) might be a good deal. I really don't want to pay $300-$400 to a local shop to do the whole thing...

The search didn't reveal anything dedicated to this so thought I'd post a new topic. What type of spring/strut compressor do you use or recommend ? I have tried the Sears Craftsman and the Autozone models. The Sears Craftsman failed and the assembly blew apart. I will be returning them and writing to the Consumer Safety Products Commission. The Autozone one only works if you don't have to install a strut INSIDE the spring or you use 2 of them. Kinda useless from my perspective. This is the Sears Craftsman one that failed on me. I have seen the same design all over the web. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_0...ring+compressor After the failure and after seeing a much more robust hydraulic wall-mounted screw-type compressor at the local NTB, I'm beginning to wonder if the 2 rod design above can work safely and reliably. The hydraulic ones seem to run hundreds of dollars, though. The only vaguely affordable thing I found was this. Seems reasonable given that, around here, a suspension swap can run a few hundred bucks with no guarantee it'll be done right... http://www.jackstoolshed.com/index/page/pr...ring+Compressor Thoughts ? Ideas ? Recommendations ?

Yeah, I would suggest checking the bearings and all the rubber bushings/mounts.

You can cut the resonator off yourself very easily. However, you will want to extend a pipe out so all the exhaust gas isn't just venting underneath the rear seats. My exhaust replacement costs were $250. $90 for the flowmaster from Amazon. $160 for the shop to cut everything out, buy some new 2.25" tubing and a Y-pipe and weld it on. Had a heat shield rattle in one place. Bent the shield back in that area and have been fine since.

OMFG. The owner should be jailed for appalling taste.

Just replace the pulley and get some additional boost.

I dunno. Red has some pretty uh strong opinions about L&P. I think there IS a VG supercharger somewhere. Have to find it. Oh yes, wait a minute, NISSAN offered one.

Just get another Pathy, remove the rear seats and voila - you have an uber-Frontier with a factory bed cap! Much cheaper too! Good luck mate.

Is everything stock ? No aftermarket muffler/exhaust, air intake and so on ?

$1011 ? Isn't that what your stereo alone is worth ? I'd offer to take $6,000. Match their absurd number with yours. It's an old trading trick. Then you can meet in the middle for $3k-$4k and everyone's happy.

Total scam. Costs thousands. Tons of exclusions. Being pursued by various AGs and the Feds. I would post a slick Pezzy/MZ-style "ASK GOOGLE" tinyurl thing but I don't know how to.

I say forget all this exotic plenum shlenum stuff and get some toilet flanges and pvc pipe and make a true cold air intake! It's an interesting idea. Just would be towards the end of my list of performance-oriented mods rather than the beginning. I'd expect to get more verifiable bang-for-buck through things like a cold-air intake, freer-flowing exhaust etc.

Ahhh. Man, how come we only get the crappy stuff ? "Eh, the Americans only want gas hogs. Forget our cool turbo-4s and turbodiesels. Just fling something with lots of cylinders and hp at them. Oh - and make sure it has the extra floppy wide seats to accommodate their obese behinds." Well, at least we've got burgers and apple pie! How much extra oomph does the extra boost provide ? Or does it come with 13 boost standard ?

Welcome You turbo-ed your rig ? How much hp and torque now ?

First one's awesome. Gonna find some of his other stuff. 2nd link didn't work.

My first car is no longer manufactured and they're actually thinking about closing the factory it was made in. 2000 Chevy Prizm. No options. None, nada, nothing. There was a "Rear Defroster" but I think that was only because either Ohio law required it or no one in Ohio would buy a car without it. No cassette deck. No CD player. No brakes or tires either. It spun out after a few millimeters of rain and crashed into a ditch - 3 weeks after I got it. Cost $5k to fix. Insurance paid, but it was ironic because the car was $13k new. I had to change radio stations manually. It was very irritating because every few miles I'd lose a station and have to furiously turn the dial to find another one. Ironically, while it was being fixed, I also lost my job. Had no money (broke new grad). So I ended up spending a week sleeping in a rental SUV. Good times! Come a long way since then, thank God!

For taillights, also check eBay and AnzoUsa.com

Welcome! Good to see some R51 owners taking their trucks wheelin.

Ah ok, very helpful. Hmm. If it's just a gasket, can't one be made at home ? Also, is there really a verifiable (dyno-able) way to measure the increased hp ? I'm just wondering how much of a diff a couple of inches would make...

Um, what's a plenum spacer and why is it so cool ?

Our trucks are about as aerodynamic as a brick. Smoothing 5% of the surface area on the a**-end of a brick won't make it cut through the air any faster in any quantity that is relevant to the real world. Same with the truck. I expect AlexRex will come up with some "I must contradict everyone to prove what a genius I am" comment like,"Well, at the milli-nano-ultra-micro level, the blah blah blah." Whatever. No one cares. If it seems to give you more MPG, awesome. If not, still awesome. So long as it serves whatever you intended it for it, rock on.

So what's the latest on this, Fueler ?

Thanks. My head's big enough already though.

It's more like,"Dude, check out what I ended up doing! I was the poster child for Lipitor!" I now look like I did in college. Don't ask me what happened in the intervening 7-8 years... I'm still figuring that sh!t out...

Oh, I win this one EASILY. No chance of any competitors beating me on this one. This is me today. Well, maybe about 80%. I slacked off on working out for a bit and am now back in full swing. But basically the same guy. This is me in 2001. I looked like this from 2001 till about 2006, when I finally got serious about losing weight and exercising.