alexg89

scored some 33s this weekend. think this thing should look pretty good once the SFD comes in. ready to get it on the road. Still gotta find a transmission or tear this one apart and replace what ever bearing is bad in it still https://imgur.com/6MnME5J https://imgur.com/XLSO7dk

yah i know what i can and cant do in those aspects lol never know what little quirks youll find though. seen something about the PS lines and a missing link which noone will ever mention on FB. i dont doubt i can do it, i just wanna know the the little aggravating aspects that noone talks about you know lol

Good deal. im in a few of the R50 groups just figured the forum way would have been a better approach to ask. ill give that video a watch, i appreciate it

well the Vg33 whether its in the pathy, frontier, or Xterra, seem to be a common issue. Ive put a handfull in my 01 xterra. worth sourcing one and trying out. I keep a spare in the back lol

i bought these same ones years back. Hit the tip of that center section with a flapper wheel and knocked it back a little. used the stock cclip and all was well

id slap the tank a few times with a mallet and see if you can jar the pump. had to do this before and it at least got me home

im getting ready to pull the trigger on one and id like to know what im getting into. Doing it i dont believe will be an issue, but for something ive never tackled im sure its going to start off rough. Any one have pictures or a link of an install? trying to search up on the site but havent really come across anything helpful

my money is on the fusible links. been down that road a few times

i always get rid of the spider web of stuff under the intake. my fix are these large thick vacuum caps you can get at a local part store. Been running my woods truck like this and just did the r50 i got. unfortunately in this picture you can see where i left my hose clamp off on the heater hose lol ' https://imgur.com/a/5rEE8mI

it was number 2 intake, 1 exhaust, and 3 intake and exhaust. and i hate to say this.......... i stuck them right back in lol. Motor was a gamble to begin with considering milage, blow head gasket and the fact cylinder 2 and 6 had some bad pitting in the cylinders. This motor isnt long for this world and i dont expect it to be. Just trying to keep it running long enough to actually build the truck and then im gonna be souring a lower milage one and spruce it up a little. Ive got an extra supercharger for my xterra ill probably end up stuffing under the hood at that point also

I'll give it a read my man! Worst case I Sas this one too hahha

I appreciate the open arms! lol talk to me about this reverse cut stuff. ive never really understood it. As for the differential itself, whats limiting me to sticking an xterra full front diff in place of this one?

Scored this little 96 about 3 weeks ago. guy said it had an overheating problem with 223k on the dash. Drove 3 hours to check it out and it looked promising so i got it. 5speed 4wd, clean interior, not alot of rust thank goodness. But come to find out the headgasket had pushed out on cylinder 4 so tore it all apart. Upon having it all tore down cylinder 2 and 6 had some pitting in the cylinder, so took a 3 stone hone to it and tried to clean it up the best i could. few lifters were a little beat up but we are gonna run it as is. Get it all back together, and it fired right up. Throttle had a bit of a hesitaton when you blipped it but ran fine when you barley got into the throttle. Come to find out MAF was no good. Stuck one in from my Xterra and she runs just fine. Unfortuently the trans may be bad, gotta get it out and check the counter shaft bearing in the front, being its howling pretty bad on de-celeration. worst case i source a wd21 trans since the gearing is better. Plans are to source a SFD and get some 33s or 34s under it. Question, being a 96 is this thing 31 spline or 33? cause id like to get some 4.9s in this thing also Anywho lets see how this thing goes https://imgur.com/a/BbKLrpJ

got it on. only thing we used from the Xterra was the supercharger, intake, lower intake, and pulley bridge. Stock ecu, stock crank pulley, stock injectors, stock maf. got a 69.5in 6 rib belt, cut 1 rib off to fit the 5 groove crank pulley and ac compressor. fits like a dream. Notched a half hole on the top right bolt for the tensioner bracket since it was off half a hole and pinched it tight with the bolt. cut the hood and we are good to go. Gonna hook up a sniffer to it to see what AFRs are looking like but with headers no cats and full 2.5in exhaust we are still getting some black smoke so dont think its leaning out. moved knock sensor up to the top of the sc but i think it may be pulling timing when it hears some stuff. gonna get it on a scanner and see whats happening there also, may stick a resistor in place. good bit of teflon was missing so we are seeing just a smidge above 5lbs on the boost gauge, we got a buddy who does cerakoteing and other engine assembly coatings which are safe for the sc rotors so we may rebuild it and get them coated. Other wise it runs great and zero issues so far

im sure its possible, do we want to go to that extent though? not really. i got majority of all the parts cleaned up at work so far and i think we may shoot for this weekend to stick it all together. guy we got it from didnt really have all the bolts so thats gonna be fun. but ill keep this updated as we go. stock ecu and stock injectors should be fine since these things have a pretty fat fuel map as it is. plus we have a boost reference FPR worst case