alexrex20

top-of-the-line, eh? i don't see a power antenna.

not any accessory. you have to splice into a circuit which always has power when the key is ON. if you splice into the radio circuit, your lights will not turn on if the radio is off. some good options are ABS or AC. or you can splice them to your park lights; that way, you can turn on your IPFs without turning on your head lamps or fog lamps.

that's cutting it close. the most i've ever put in was roughly 18gal.

andrew, you don't do any real off-roading so i would just get some goodyear assurance.

a burnout doesn't nearly stress a vehicle as much as off roading, imo.

if it were me, i'd just hook a shackle and strap to that lower vent hole thingy, and try to straighten the bitch out. if it works it works, if it doesn't, so be it. you can hardly tell anyway!

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well that's ARB for you. it's not their fault we bought unibody SUVs.

in my communications with ARB, in my loooong wait for my bumper, the impression i got was that they only make R50 bumpers when they have received at least 2(?) orders. i was very lucky that pete (PDCCD) also ordered one; otherwise, my bumper would never have gone into production. Buddy at ARB told us that we're lucky they even make a bumper for trucks as old as ours. i didn't know 5 years was obsolete! with that said, i don't know if you can even order R50 ARB Sahara bars anymore. there would have to be a minimum order of 2 for them to bust out the tooling to manufacture our bumpers. so, alex, i think the Xterra retrofit is your only option, if you insist on not getting the ugly KMA bumper. if someone had the tooling and know-how and spare time to design/fab/market a retrofit bracket for Xterra-to-R50 ARB bumpers, i think it would be a gold mine. Xterra ARB bumpers are readily available (comparatively) and as alex pointed out, significantly less expensive.

they're a complete lamp assembly, and require the housing to mount them. they can not be used as direct headlamp replacements, so they need to be mounted like traditional fog/driving auxiliary lights - like Hella, PIAA, IPF, etc.

they're GE Q4509 bulbs (long-life version of the normal 4509). you'll need the housings to mount them.

those are badass, but not $2000 badass, IMO. for that price i'd surely get front/rear lockers first.

Dean, any pics of your HIDs?

if you just want air for your lockers, you can get a small compressor for $100-150. it only gets expensive when you start installing hi-output compressors and auxiliary tanks.

it'd probably cost just as much to SAS with (Detroit) locked D60s front/rear, as it would to install ARB lockers front/rear on the stock axles.

for us poor folk, would you recommend (even the slightest bit) swapping in a LSD 3rd member from a junkyard Pathy? if i can get a 3rd member for dirt cheap, is it worth the labor to add some clutches and swap it in? ARB is the only option for the H233B in the R50, and at $950 for just the locker, it ain't cheap. you still need to have an air supply, and then pay for labor, if you're not willing to tackle it yourself.

yes, the lights recessed into my bumper are aircraft landing lights, for which i need to thank orangetang again for the idea! i got the bulbs for $15/ea from an aircraft supply website, and the housings were $8/ea from a big rig supply store. the bulbs are a specific universal size so it's easy to get housings for them; you can get the cheap rubber ones i got, or chrome, or all steel, etc. compared to the $350 set that ARB sells, these are obviously a lot cheaper, and i think these are probably brighter. they're so bright that you can't turn them on when there are others on the road. maybe the ARB/IPF lights are designed purely as a fog light, so they may not be very bright anyway. here are a few shots of just how bright these lights are. first are just the low beams. low beams with all four aux lights. the Hella 500FF are floods and are pointed left and right, because the landing lights are spots and pointed straight out. on the highway, when i flick on the landing lights, it lights up every street sign for as far as you can see - sometimes several miles.

haha, i don't care how in-depth his analyses were. he is an amateur with no background in this field so what he decides means nothing to me. and fwiw, i use ACDelco.

And don't take this the wrong way, but your info is crap. That site you linked to is NINE YEARS OLD and is an amateur subjective review of what oil filters that person likes and dislikes. You can't possibly be using that as your main criterion for oil filter quality? And a larger oil filter does not only provide larger capacity. A monkey could have deduced that much. A larger filter means a larger... internal filter which means more surface area which means more flow (and less pressure). Durr. Do you also have a Tornado in your intake because your buddy told you it will help better atomize your air/fuel mixture?

$1000 for headlights. riiight... my $20 XtraVision headlights are more than enough, and if anything, i can always flick these on (altogether <$150). the lower lights are 100W GE Q4509 aircraft landing lights (per orangetang's recommendation), which are so obnoxiously bright that it makes the 55W Hella 500FF ($65 from Wal-Mart) look like daytime running lights.

actually nissan uses automatic transmission fluid (ATF) in their power steering

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oh well excuuuse me!

01silvapathy, where in texas are you located?