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why not? the frames no more than 1/8" maybe 3/16" at best, anything thicker is dead weight. there is such a thing as over engineering things

if you were in yakima, i would make you one for 50

its alot easier to start there, pulling the rotors is no fun. unless your local brake shop has an on car brake lathe

your pathfinder will go that fast? wow im impressed, mine is scary about 75 i would get the alignment checked and bleed the brakes you might also have a bad ball joint or tie rod end

maybe.... if i get bored, i have to wait till spring/summer, its too stinky of a process to do indoors, and its a lot of friggin work.

drivers view of the gauges.... i still need to cut some holes in the back for the wires and capillary tube for my oil gauge. will do that tomorrow and hopefully get them in and wired up. i may have put a couple of screw in it to keep it attached, i don't know if the spring clips will hold the additional weight of the gauges and the fiberglass.

... ... ... I decided to use a wrinkle finish paint that way i wouldn't have to fill the scratches or the pinholes... got some wrinkle finish Krylon paint.... this crap is tricky to get an even texture, the wrinkle finish paint was a bust. 2 days now and the @!*% is still gooey in spots. i scraped the thick stuff off in hopes of speeding up the dry time. that didnt work, so i picked up a can of dupli-color bed liner and then went to town with a paint scraper and scotch brite pad. gave it a shot of Dupli-color truck bed liner today at lunch time. its so purdy.... ... ... ... ... i need to work the holes out a little so the gauges will drop in all the way... to be continued....

... cut a chunk of felt and played around with it, stuck one spot at a time with the hot glue and stretched and trimmed till it looked OK for the bottom layer. mixed up some resin and hardener, then goobered the felt with about 3 oz. of goo. (thats the gauge wrapped in plastic to hold the felt around the lip of the pod while it cures) gonna wait till it hardens then do the other (2)... Note: if you buy a measuring cup from Home Depot or Lowe's and it says in fine print at the bottom: "measurements are for reference only" throw it away and go to a good auto body supply store and get a real one. you can also take a known accurate measure and put water in the cup or any mixing cup 1oz at a time and mark the graduations with a sharpie. i found out the hard way that they are off by at least 4oz. i was measuring 4 oz batches and it was closer to 8oz. so i was only using half the hardener that i needed. causing the resin to take at least 4 times as long to harden. another note: i dont recommend doing this indoors, my whole house smells likes resin... (not that kind) put the felt on the next 2 using a hot glue gun to tack it down as i stretched it to a good shape, then gave it a good coat of resin. rough shaped the felt with a file and knocked the high spots down with some 80 grit paper trimmed the felt from around the gauge openings.... and removed the styro from the inside while you weren't looking (forgot to take pics) i put on a layer of fiberglass mat and another coat of resin, shaped with a file again, and sanded the hell out of it with 80 grit paper. then busted out the Bondo to smooth things out a bit. it took a few batches of Bondo to get the cure time right so i could actually work with it (was mixing it too "hot") more shaping and sanding, some more filler, more shaping and sanding.... ... once again while you weren't looking, more sanding, and sanding and sanding..... started with 80 grit then 120 then to 240. and finally a coat of high build primer: to be continued....

i have been tossing around the idea of a custom a-pillar gauge pod (they dont make em for my junk) and found this write-up: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4144013 decided it was time so... picked up some 2" ABS pipe and 3 couplers, some sanding blocks, sand paper, more resin (my can had gotten hardener in it the hole thing was gelled), a pint of bondo, a can of high build primer, some chip brushes and a graduated plastic cup. i already had some fiberglass cloth and the other crap i needed. the a-pillar cover: cut up some pieces of ABS, and cut down the coupler (un-cut coupler on left): cut down coupler on a piece of ABS with Oil pressure gauge in it: the most expensive part of the project (5 bucks for 6 styro balls): stuffed the styro ball in the ABS to mark it: filed it down to fit 1/2 way into the ABS: hot glued the balls in the holes: took the rough pods and the pillar cover out to the pathfinder and played around with them untill i came up with some good locations and made some marks on the pillar cover with a sharpie and headed back inside where its warm. cut some blocks out of styro to hold the pods at the correct angle and hot glued the bottom pod on the pillar cover: took it back outside to check the location, had to move it up about 1/2" to allow the cover to snap back on w/o hitting the dash. proceeded to do the same with the other (2) pods: then back outside for the final inspection before the glass and resin... to be continued...

FYI having the exhaust dump under the vehicle is illegal in most states, they must have a tail pipe and exit out side the vehicle. i've been pulled over for mine which turns down at a 45° angle before the axle....

... most ppl use a single 1.5 - 2" .250 wall DOM, i hope gas is cheep in your area.

sell it and by a 4x4, if it was a 2 door 2wd i would by it from you....

try google.com it does wonders

mini trucking refers to low riders that are slammed and bagged....

build it! break it! fix it! repeat....

a little earlier i used the bumper for a shovel, i hit hard enough to pop the headlights and corner light off, sheared (3) 1/2" bolts in the bumper mount, and cracked the radiator.... oops

thats the nature of this sport... if you dont like it get a mini truck and stick to the mall parking lots

but for a weekend "mudder" (as they call it on here) or a mall crawler, i say go for it. would be good for a pre-runner in the desert also. now if someone could take those off, make a mold out of them and cast them in a poly or rubber, i would be all over them.... oooh better yet an oversixed cut-out version for the 2 dr. guys

like this?

i dont think you would want to take fiberglass on any trails unless theyre flat and open, first time you touch a tree or a berm you can say good by flare.

there are different tooth speedo drive gears for the different gear ratio/tire combinations from the factory. ask member "nissannut" or look on his website nissannut.com he has some info on the different speedo drive gears.

they're pointed right at the drivers head, or at least my head. heres a shot of them mocked up:

here's a little teaser pic, ill post up more when its finished:

YOU GOT MAD FIBERGLASS SKILLZ, i just made an a-pillar gauge pod for my '87 (will post a write-up next week when i get the gauges in...) you want to make a set just like that for my 280z? FYI: IMSA http://www.imsaracing.net/