twotirefryer

i've got money on radius arm bushings.

WTF? how come your UCA's look so different than the ones that i posted links too? is that just a general pic they have on the calmini website. if so, thats really misleading....but anyways, i will be getting the RC UCA's.

works for me, never had a bolt break or shear. i use a little common sense and there are things that NEED to be dead on, but a 12mm grade 8 bolt? i guess different strokes for different folks, that just seem overly anal. and BTW, a grade 8 bolt will never have a hairline fracture, it breaks in two or strips thread. :secret:

you bored your maf over.... and you compensated your fuel tune how?

if your rig has failsafe and won't rev about 2400, your maf is dead. any other maf issues warrants at least a good cleaning with *MAF CLEANER*, not brake clean, compressed air or anything else. i have brought back countless mafs from the dead doing that.

actually, JWT can make you one. or jason calumn. but just like most everything else from the factory that isn't boosted, it's not really gonna do much unless you have a reason for it, like turbo or stupidcharger.

hah. intake on a vg30i? thats almost laughable considering the bottle neck is at the throttle body. if you are trying to get more air into the engine, yard the MAF out of the throttle body, get yourself a safc and go to town on porting the throttle body. you can run a ka24e maf from a 240sx or a sr20de maf, but then your building an intake. as far as buying one, forgetaboutit.

don't know if the vg30e has a knock sensor, but my vg30i doesn't, you DO NOT want to knock or you can plan on replacing headgaskets, valves...something will go eventually. more timing=more gas mileage, more power. lower timing=you can pee in the tank and it will run. my advice, raise the timing one degree at a time until it pings. then back off one degree. i'm pretty sure 12 deg is where it's supposed to be at.

LOL yeah, tough country=typo, my bad. so the bushings suckin the calmini parts? is this a widespread problem?

so i priced out two of em calmini-$350/pr plus ship, beefy as hell. for 3" lift. do the factory upper balljoints fit in these? http://www.purenissan.com/control_arms.htm superlift-$314/pr shipped, P/N# 6065 no link available tough country???? fill in the blanks here if you can the superlift look to be ok, not nearly as beefy as the calmini. for the extra few bucks, i'm REALLY leaning towards the latter. any complains on either control arms?

actually, running the longer UCA(rough country or calmini) at stock ride height will give you positive camber. the whole idea of having a longer UCA is so you don't have to stack 5 million miles of shims to get the correct camber in addition to not destroying your CV axles.

larch is in hockinson area. bout 20 miles out of vancouver, no far at all. good trails, although i have heard that off road stuff is illegal there. honestly though, it's not like i'm destroying anything, just sticking to the trails and there are tons of wheelers any given weekend. i'm not to worried about getting a ticket.

ok, well then good info...

PM me or call me 360-936-7205 vancouver, washington. nothing really crazy, just a good time to warm up for the 17th. goddamn, i'm itchin bad. too much school and not enough mud.

i got my 91 galant vr4(awd) bout 4 years ago and before i started sinking ass loads of money into it I went to larch mountian(local wheelin spot) and let her rip on the muddy gravely roads. it was cool but i wanted some real action, like trails. i went for a ride in my buddies ford truck and had the worst time of my life. got stuck 3 times in like 2 hours on some really wimpy trails. then it blew a headgasket. went a couple other times in some big jacked up rigs(never the driver, just the drinker) and it was ok. it was always something with the domestics. well the last time i went before i bought my pathfinder, i was in my buddies 95 hardbody truck. talk about wippin major ass. the thing was unstoppable with basic upgrades. i bought a pathfinder, did the same mods and laugh every time i see some big ass jacked up ford stuck. 4lo, 2nd gear, right thru the same mud pit. hehe. not that the pathfinder is the greatest rig or anything, but these things do crazy @!*% from the factory. oh yeah, i only paid $1500 bucks for it. that set off a boom and i can gaurantee you guys this thing will have a SAS within 2 years.