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Drove around with the new vg33 swap, never fails to impress.... I wonder how wd21 sales would have done if this was the stock engine. It seems to be the perfect amount of power for these trucks and fuel mileage has increased to a reasonable level now too.

Please post this up with pics as you go, if you don't mind... I want to convert to round dash as well to get rid of my square dash red interior!!

We need Npora stickers for our trucks...

Officially finished my second vg33 swap, this time on my ladys 93 path se. We used the experimental engineering adapter which made it much easier to complete than when I did my truck and adapted the 96 pathy accessories in my 93 path xe. The truck runs amazing! Now we have 2 vg33 swapped 93s in the driveway lol

I got mine from princess auto, they are really beef and I trust them. Were only around 30$ and really nice to have in the shop.

I agree, if properly lubricated poly lasts a long long time and maintains its hardness as well. I have used poly in every bushing that isn't replaced with heim joints on my 240sx for years with no issues and it sees a lot of daily driving and hard spirited driving. Still have yet to hear a squeak even, although I did use a lot of factory five lube on assembly. I swear by poly. I have my tension rods and sway bar done in poly on my pathy and the ucas and lcas are next. Have em sitting in a box waiting to go in. They are also much easier to install and much cheaper....

BTW, those shots of the baja are really cool! It's strange to see the ocean next to a desert, for me I look away from the ocean and see nothing but green. I love the diversity of this world, I just can't wait until I have more time to explore it.

Yeah my suspension is much beefier than stock so I'm sure my gvwr is higher than stock. I run much bigger truck shocks and springs, only my torsion bars and control arms are stock. Poly bushings everywhere, Ford f350 rear shocks, bronco 2 front shocks, jeep 5.9l v8 springs, soon to be air bags in the rear for the offroad trailer I'm building . I'm confident it is sufficiently beefed up to carry some extra weight. Also just finished swapping in a new rear axle I got for 40$ that has factory lsd and disk brakes so my braking has also increased greatly from the swap. I went out to my truck last night to make some plans and finish up my girls vg33 swap and took a look under the rear seats, I am going to do it. There is tons of room down there, I could get a really nice sized extra storage area out of the deal. I'll put up a thread for that project, when I get to it . Today we are finishing my girls vg33 swap, so I will have time for my beast again soon!

The grass is greener, hey? Haha. Don't get me wrong, i love British columbia and the terrain is really fun to traverse but being able to see forever until the horizon seems like it would be cool. Here you couldn't dream of seeing the horizon, just more mountains! Only way to see the horizon here is to look west out to the pacific ocean

I've always wanted to drive through the desert, it seems like it would be almost surreal, especially considering where I live is covered in thick forests and hundreds of monstrous mountains

I have actually modified the rear section of my truck so it converts from seats to a bed in about 2 minutes flat, it ends up being around 7 ft of head to toe space which fits me perfect at 6'4" tall. Doing this saves me a huge amount of space as I just need to move some things from the back to the front to get the required space to sleep inside. The idea about under the rear seats from adamzan is definitely a good one....I actually still have to fix some rust holes down there still anyways and that would be a perfect place to fab up a storage bin with the empty space under there....add an access door from the top then I could keep my water in there and it would be protected fully... I prefer to keep the 3" body lift just for the reasons listed prior. Much easier to work on and repair things, and more space for custom storage. I have about 7" of total lift and my truck isn't top heavy at all, its actually quite startling at times how much tilt I can get in it without flipping lol. I do have quite a wide stance though due to my wheel offset which definitely helps to keep all 4 down. The roof basket will be made of aluminum too to keep weight down and that's another reason I want to store the water down low in the truck About the comm and protection, I am actually in the process of getting my ham radio license and my fire arms certificate so I can run both as yes, there are mountain lions, black bears, grizzly bears, etc all over where I live. Thanks for all the links by the way, awesome reading!

I'm thinking a flexible bladder mounted under the truck just in front of the rear axle..its wide open there and I built a custom side exit exhaust that exits before the rear tire instead of after so all that space underneath is wide open. Should be able to cram a 7 gallon air tank and a 10 gallon water bladder under there I think..

I do actually have a steel plate bumper already, it wouldn't be a bad idea to move my carrier down to the bumper, I guess ill convert it over first and then see how it handles the weight, if its too much I can weld a post to my bumper and put the swing.arm on there ...hmmm ideas....

Thanks for all the good info, great stuff so far. I'm actually in southwestern Canada and will be making trips to many of the islands as well as all over the interior of canada so extra fuel will be a must. I think I am going to modify my tire carrier to be similar to the terrano with the tire off to the side and then I can mount extra fuel cans on there. I figure water is the most important thing to have ample supply of so I plan to install a 7-10 gallon water bladder under my truck with a 12v pump run to a tap when u open the back hatch. With the 3" body lift there is tons of room under the truck to store most of the fluids and air so I can keep my truck clutter free. I am also planning to build an aluminum roof basket for extra storage, yet still keeping weight down. I am also working on converting my a/c pump into an air compressor to run onboard air. I love the pathfinders size as many of the trails up in Canada are narrow, tight, and winding and bigger trucks have a much harder time getting through much of them. I have always thought it would be a cool overland vehicle, we just have to be more creative with the use of space. Keep em coming!

Hey everyone, I'm slowly converting my pathfinder to a long distance travel expedition rig. Just looking for ideas, pictures and descriptions of mods on fellow members Pathfinders, would be nice to see how you did your setup and get it all in one place (on-board air/water, truck tents, cabinets, etc) I've built most of the suspension and power plant up quite a bit on my truck and and now its time for the fun and creative stuff! Post up your mods and how you did them!

yeah i hear ya. i cant wait to do my lca and uca bushings.... lol. it will be great to have them done, but not so great to do them..... did you burn the lca out? or does it pop out some how? ucas im not too worried about. i have the prothane bushings sitting in the parts drawer but have not gathered the motivation to do it yet...lol

My version of difficult is pulling/installing the engine/front diff in a MT pathy, or rebuilding and rebushing the front suspension on our rigs. Those jobs just suck, most everything else is pretty easy. Plenum is time consuming but not hard at all.

I still have to do my upper and lower control arm Bushings, the rest are done and I know what you mean about lining up the bolts when putting the compression rod back together. Major pain with poly. That was one of the biggest differences on my truck though

Good info there, I run old Chevy alloys that are 15x8 rally i think, also use older chevy 15x10 steel rims but they are aftermarket

I use urethane on most of my old bushings.. engine mounts and shock Bushings I use 3m window weld, inject all the dead space and let dry for a few days. Super easy and cheap way to get solid engine mounts that still dampen vibration.I've never done it on a link bushing but it would be easy to use a torch to heat up spikes and press them through , it shouldn't light on fire just use some red hot nails/spikes or long skinny bolts. Like was mentioned there are stock rubber replacements and they all seem to be similar pricing but I like polyurethane myself so I would go that route if the 'ghetto repair' didn't work. I have hsd really good exprrience with poly...my entire 240sx has poly bushings front and rear and with that factory 5 lube and its still silent. Nary a squeak or groan after 2 years daily driving P.s. good to see you on Npora! I've used your beergarage site before as well! Always wanted to say thanks.

So Badass ...

I think I have pulled and repaired vg33 and vg30 plenums 6 or 7 times now, it gets easier....no more fun, though.

Dropped in the vg33 today into my gfs 93 SE, one more solid day and its done!

Dude, you are a maniac... I thought I worked a lot...lol

I found it was my centerlink that wore first before my tie rods surprisingly, but that is with 3+" of torsion bar crank and balljoint spacers/low pro bump stops. After the 2wd swap I haven't had any issues though.