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NICE thread! thanks for emailing someone for some info I personally actually wanna LOWER my 01 R50, which is 2wd. Do you think they make a WJ spring that would bring me down an inch or something?? Maybe there stock size coils?

When I made my CAI, I made the IAT temp sensor harness longer (the right way) and drill a hole into the top of my K&N filter and siliconed the oem rubber piece into the intake and I can pop the IAT sensor in an out there. The air in your engine bay can be a much different temp than what your engine in taking in. And can oprobably make for decent runability issues

silly distributors!!! Not like coil packs are any different...

tiny little screw driver and wiggle wiggle wiggle, all of my sensors were PITA to budge out of there casting holes

When I popped off my plastic steering wheel covers I didnt see the T45 or any way to get the air bag off the front of the steering wheel Did you read any good links on the net on how to remove our specific bag and how to keep track or everything aligned. I just want my damn cruise control and horn to work!!! Im sick of people being ****** drivers and getting away with it!!

So how do you guys take the damn steering wheels off theses cars then. I took my column covers off today and didnt see any place to pop the wheel itself or get access even to removing the airbag, I dont know if my qx4 is differenn pathys though Wish it didnt get dark so early!!

aww!!!!! special tools required eh!! Id really love to just have my horn working again. I dont quite get (and dont wanna get hit with an airbag lol) how to get access or the old wheel off to see whats broken. I never personally broke mine it came this way but you guys seem to have done this during a lift install?? Any pics with it apart?

Very nice offer of you guys!!

I notice all headers on ebay seem to be for 03+ Vq35De's and no mention of listings for any vq35's for any other years

I definetely would not want to modify the header extensively. Im looking for bolt on really, the most fab I would hope to do, at the very worst. Is add an 02 sensor bung in the correct place for my vehicle incase the car the header was made for had one in a different location. Obviously the exhaust/cat placement after that would all be custom, but I would hope to get a manifold that fits onto my factory studs and pointed the collectors in a managable direction... Id like to think all VQ35 engines had the same exhaust port pattern and stud pattern but I dont think thats all the case with all the models and HR/De etc different engines. If anyone could clarify...

Did you ever figure this out man?? My car has had the exact same problem since I bought it, no steering controls, cruise etc, no horn... and probly no airbag.. Aside from taking the plastic shell off the column I dont know how to get the wheel off, it kind of scares me with that airbag right there lol. I didnt know all you had to do was disconnect the batery

I use 4 liters of Mobil 1 non-synthetic 5w-30 and .75 liters (give or take) of Lucas oil additive. I buy enough for the year when both go on sale at the same time for almost half price lol Been doing it since 60k miles (120k now) every 4k miles or so, not a hiccup yet

Yeah I would like to start off with just what kind of car or specific manifold type to search for on the VQ engines to know that the exhaust port and studs line up like oem, then see if there was any chance of actually bolting them on and having them not fire into a firewall or engine mount, with proper 02 locations even in my best wishes lol, then I can just fabricate the rest of the exhaust from there I'll have to try and research which Vq's have the same exhaust ports first I guess EDIT: just searched for about an hour on this site and a few others for options, I didnt find a lick of info on anyone putting any sort of aftermarket header on there R50, I figured someone would have done this before for sure, those factory manifolds sure must flow crappy... they look restrictive anyways, and ugly

The air lift 1000 kit is good and does make it stiffen up and you can definetely add an inch with 20+ psi in the bags. But Ive had 2 sets now fail on me after they mysteriously lost pressure then the spring just eats them for dinner when theres no pressure in them They work so good Im orderring another pair and doing something to protect them this time lol

Afternoon guys. Im in a bit of a debauckle here, my car has a custom exhaust that I want to redo anyways. Im not a big fan of the factory cats and resonators. And the look of the stock exhaust manifold and oiled up heatshields kind of angers me... Anyways I noticed they dont make any aftermarket headers with stock location 02 bungs for the 3.5L engine but they do make them for the 350z, g35 etc all with the VQ35 but some different sub models. Does anyone know or has anyone had success yet creating there own motor back exhaust system with any of these parts?? Would appreciate any info!!