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    DIY winch bumper 'builder' brackets

    in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders

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    8 hours ago, cgriff said:

    Looks like thing might have stalled a bit on this thread but I am interested in both front and rear bumpers and the skids too.  I live in Colorado And would be .down for a road trip to pick it all up?

    Heck, I could make a weekend of it and throw down with some shop labor to help u out if needed.   I got some skills even if you only need a strong back and a broom operator.?

    Where in Colorado are you, also grab me some skid plates!

    In-Channel Window Deflector Vent Visors

    in General Forums

    Posted

    On 9/25/2018 at 9:09 PM, AlabamaDan said:

    It rained last night, off and on today, and we had thunderstorms this evening.  I just went and checked and everything is bone dry! :D  I left all four windows cracked to where they just barely were covered by the bottom of the visor.  Success all around!

    Any rain come in while driving in the rain?

     

    Long Travel Suspension Under An R50

    in Solid Axle Swaps, Hardcore Custom Fab

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    1 hour ago, mjotrainbrain said:

    Nothing commercially available, and I don't think I've ever seen it done before.  Definitely going to need to be custom unfortunately.

    I've seen something similar but for a SAS project nicknamed "pepsi" http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic.php?t=9349 but I will see about making or having something made for our trucks to keep most of it stock and just bolt in.

    1UZFE VVTI in an R50

    in Solid Axle Swaps, Hardcore Custom Fab

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    So I haven't seen much in the light of swapping in a Toyota 4.0L V8 1UZFE VVTI into our R50s and so I went ahead and did a metric fskcton of research about both the VQ35DE VVTI and the 1UZFE VVTI, to get dimensions and measurements for both engines and their mounting positions. This made the process way easier after finding and buying said Toyota engine locally for $200us and so far it looks like the motor mounts for the engine as almost identical and in the damn near same locations with the distance of both engines keeping the same space from the back of the engines to the firewall the same. But obviously the only way the v8 would fit without issue is to delete the clutch fan and installing dual electric fans on the radiator (which I wanted to do anyway) which isn't a big deal anyway BUT the two radiators are pretty different which is fine because A I could either adapter some coolant hoses or B find a radiator that would work with the space of the pathfinder radiator space (I haven't done much in the way of measurements or research on this) or C have a custom built aluminum performance radiator (too expensive probably) which would be nice but ideally not what I'd want to do since my truck build is budget minded for the most part. Another nice thing is that XAT makes a bell housing adapter plate to run the SR/KA 5 speed transmissions but I have also found out the the older KA24E 5 speed 4x4 transmissions might work perfectly with their adapters but I don't know what the towing capability would be with those transmissions (since I do tow with this truck) as I can't find any info on that. So my first question is for you manual transmission off roaders out there is, how is it out on the trails with a manual trans, because mine is an auto and so far I love it for off road but this 4 speed trans isn't great for highway driving because it just drags down the fuel economy hence the idea/plan for the manual/engine swap. 

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