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You asked for pics, so here you go, some of these are old dirty POS's that I got when I was very young, my favorites are the Spyderco, Emerson, Kershaw, I like name brand knives mostly although I have some cheap copies of more expensive knives like the copy of the Microtech Halo OTF, and the all plastic assisted opening knife is pretty cool supposed to be metal detector proof , don't want to try it !!:
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"different" hobby but I can't say anything... as long as you enjoy it, it's like old trainsets or hot wheels I would guess. Where's the guy spinning around on the cardboard at?
we left him out in the parking lot,lol
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I'll be posting my knife pics in a few minutes, just pulled them all out, put them on the table took some pics and put them all back away, I'm sweating!! check out the thread you linked to in a few minutes
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you may have been familiar with a magazine called "off duty", i started an old ad's thread on the boombox forum and someone posted about 8 pages showing all kind of boomboxes from an issue of "off duty" which I was told was a military magazine
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make fun if you like ( I don't care,lol) but if I wanted to I could turn around and sell my Aiwa in the last pic for about $700 any day of the week, there def. is a huge market for these classics!!
No Adidas, I was a Nike Air wearer back in the day, lol
No break dancing clothes but plenty of music from that era, we even had a professional photographer at this years meet who is working on a boombox book, he also took the cover photo for Time magazine that covered 9-11
the first pic under 2009, the 2 boomboxes on the right that are the same except for the color, are from Germany and typically go for about $1500 !! if you could find one that is.
But I am not a collector like some of my buddies, I have the Aiwa I bought new ( which is rare to still own after 28 years!!), I have another big Aiwa I bought on E-bay for cheap and a 3rd little one a friend gave me after the 2009 meet, some of these guys have in the hundreds, one guy has about 50 of the same exact one and they are all mint!
Oh, I also collect Knives but no pics yet.
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ok, that makes sense as I have instructions (that I did not scan) that were mailed to me from JCR for a shock kit and it says Desert Steel on the top of the page
Oh, I e-mailed Jim Connor Racing last night
here:
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just noticed this, this should answer the question on whether or not AC parts took over from Jim Connor Racing, notice the background, the truck the parking lot:
from JCR catalog:
from 4x4 parts web site:
and since JCR was around BEFORE 4x4 parts..........
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sorry if this was mentioned but I didn't see anything about this, Has anyone considered drilling a hole in the side where the bushings/pin goes and screwing a Zerk fitting in so grease can be added later??
opps just saw this
"Note the grease point, make sure its clear - later down the road this is where grease (with a pin style injector) can be injected into the joint."
still think a Zerk fitting would be better
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the ball joint spacer welded in I guess was just the first way they figured out how to get some lift out of the Nissan front end (at a reasonable cost as I'm sure there were custom race style arms available for a long time), I have seen other companies (all long closed down) way back in the day doing the same thing. The newer tubular UCA's eliminate the spacer by changing the angle that the ball joint sits at in the UCA and thereby eliminates the need for the spacer. If you think about the design, cranking the torsion bars is what provides the lift by moving the lower control arm down, of course the upper control arm has to follow since they are connected by the spindle, so cranking the bars with stock parts limits the amount of lift because the upper arm will hit the bumpstop sooner, guess that's why people started replacing the bump stop with lower profile ones. Anyway, throw a spacer in and it allows the UCA to be moved lower providing more lift. Of course we know what happens when you crank the bars too far as far as the ride and cv angles are concerned.
the colored arms and available at no extra cost too!! what a deal!! Anyone compare the prices to today's parts yet? The price lists I posted are jobber price sheets from my old job.
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Actually, looking at the UCAs and the Pre-runner bumper parts, it looks like AC might have bought the rights to the designs or something.
"I think I remember way back that Automotive customizers bought all of JCR's inventory when they closed shop. "
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I wouldn't consider using the factory shock, I used to tell people all the time the first thing to replace on any new truck is the shocks, most of the stock shocks are usually garbage. I had a rancho single stabilizer on my 87 Hardbody but as koveman said about his and I agree even with the Rancho I didn't notice any difference
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car is a 90 but the sport seats would have been found in a 88 sentra hatchback, a lot better than how it was when I got it, here's a couple pics for comparison:
right after I bought it for $580!!
stock interior
it was supposed to be a temp vehicle as I was getting rid of my 2001 dakota 4x4 (that replaced my 87 Hardbody 4x4, mistake that was!!!), I needed to find a car in 2 days to get to work and I limited my search to Nissan's cause that's what I like and am familiar with. The sentra was to be just a car to drive until I found another Nissan 4x4 pickup but couldn't find the one I wanted reasonably priced, just recently got my 94 pathfinder from a co-worker, it needed an engine and also got it for $500.
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I've seen the mount your talking about but don't recall ever seeing a truck that had a factory steering stabilizer. Most aftermarket stabilizers don't use that bracket anyway. When you install larger tires and wheels than stock they tend to emphasize any weaknesses you may have in your front end. larger tires will normally raise havoc over time on the Nissan front end so make sure to check your ball joints and idler arm, did you get it re-aligned after switching to the new tires?
Nissan FAST shows a steering dampener as being an option
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I second that !!
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gauges I mounted below the radio
autometer air pressure gauge for air horn in custom mount, gauge now sits upright
air tank in trunk for air horn
the trunk, 2 precision power (old school) amps sitting on top of a kicker brand box running as a sub with 2 12's, not seen kicker 3 way crossover
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here are a few pics of my other Nissan, a 1990 Sentra E model that is now other than the engine equivalent to a later SE-R:
tach gauge cluster I swapped in with pulsar steering wheel
replacing the dash pad, not for the faint at heart!!
under hood, painted valve cover, large air horn on the right now located somewhere else
new OEM surplus sport seat cushions with matching door panels, also has new blue carpet
looking toward drivers side, also in pic momo shadow shift knob
15x7 wheels with 195/50/15 falken tires, major upgrade from the stock 13's!! not seen, pulsar SE (thicker) sway bars with custom made urethane bushings
new location of large airhorn pointing down next to battery:
custom (by me) 110 amp alternator swap from a maxima, stock was 70 amp
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from 2009:
from 2008:
my Aiwa CS-880 that I bought brand new back in 1982, fully working sounds like new with original manual,registration card and brochure:
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I'm not as much a collector as some of the guys I've met on the boombox forum I belong too, but we have had 3 meets so far, all 3 I hosted here in Florida at my clubhouse where I live, last meet this past March we had a couple fly over from Germany, ,members came from NY,NJ, chicago, Tenn, Alabama all over, here are some pics:
from 2010 meet:
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went to the movies the other night and there was an ad for "roach's chiropractic", we were commenting that if it was our name we would change it!
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No problem, I like posting old stuff like this for the younger generation to see, you should see my thread in the boombox forum that I belong too, it's about 5 pages longer than this one just with old ad's and stuff!!
that's what I said in that thread, but I think I remember way back that Automotive customizers bought all of JCR's inventory when they closed shop. Just found out last night the JCR is still in the race business but not with Nissans.
On my 87 Hardbody I had the reinforced uca's with the optional mounts to use triple shocks with the hoops, I had a lot of stuff from this catalog back in the day. I'll have to check in storage but I think I still have the dual shock mounts for the rear don't know if they would work on the pathfinder though.
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your catching up!! LOL I'm 44 by the way
what do you think of the pics?
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Ok that's all folks, hope you all enjoy this, lot of scanning and uploading involved here!!
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