Gonna start my lift

[SixGuns]

So, I'm buying a new welder and I'm gonna start piecing together my lift...I figure if I don't, it will never happen, and I don't have a job right now anyway (a combo of 1.No DD-214 yet and 2.I'm screwing lazy and 3.There really isn't **** out here for jobs...So screw it, can't make money, might as well spend it)...I have yet to secure a manufacturer for my high-angle CV's, but...screw it, I'll deal with 2wd for a while, and when I get the shafts, install them and go break them...but, first, buy stock in that company....make my own paycheck... =D So, I'll post pics as I go...of the pieces I put together...and eventually, the lift as a whole. Fortunately, I got my old Yamaha to get around on while my truck is in lay-up, but the morons who moved my stuff from San Diego to NC shoved it against the wall of the truck and smashed my clutch perch. So I have to wait for them to pay me for a new one...'cause it's old as **** and the perch is like 80 bucks....I'll keep you guys posted, and hopefully I'll have some pics up of at least something accomplished soon..

[nissandoms47]

cant wait to see it.

[screwinitupagain]

Hope the lift making goes well for you. And sucks to hear about your bike... those f*ckers

[bmlawless]

I have yet to secure a manufacturer for my high-angle CV's, but...screw it, I'll deal with 2wd for a while, and when I get the shafts, install them and go break them.

Tom Wood's Shafts have a great reputation in the Jeep community. They will custom make a shaft and my understanding is that the prices are comparable to anywhere else.

http://www.4xshaft.com/index.html

[SixGuns]

Yeah, but to my knowledge, Tom Woods, just like High Angle Drivelines just makes actual driveshafts - not the little sissy CV's we run..I can ask them, but I can probably guess their response...just like everyone else that I've talked to...Oh, and fukinitupagain...since you're running the AC lift....do you know what spring rates they run? Their site just says "medium, HD" etc...I'm looking for lbs...found an awesome coilover company that I'm gonna go with...a buttload cheaper than Fox!! Their stuff looks pretty hefty...and 4 2.5" coilovers w/ reservoirs will run me $1080.00, plus like 400 bucks on springs...That and the driveshafts is all I'm buying...fabbing everything else...so I might be able to do the lift for $2k...and then wheels/tires...This is gonna get spendy quick...anyways, if anyone knows the springs rates, please lemme know..thanks.

[screwinitupagain]

I emailed them once about that, like 2 years ago, but I don't remember what they told me & I can't find the email anywhere. You might want to ask Dean (XPLORx4) over on AC's site or NPORA. Just PM him & he'll probably know.

[SixGuns]

So, actually got to talk to someone over at CVO, Inc out of Ocala, FL (20 minutes from where I grew up...) and the guy who builds the axles isn't in until next week...but the guy estimated me $2k for the shafts...more or less depending on the maximum angle I'll be running...but i'm figuring (figuring is all I can do right now, since the moving company took it upon themselves to drain my 3 ton floor jack of hydraulic oil, as I found out today....I'm becoming less and less fond of those guys) since sitting stock, the axle sits at about 1-2 degrees, if I drop the hub 4", I'll be looking at somewhere around 20 degrees, entending the A arm out 5/8"...allowing for a 4" downward travel, that will put the axle at somewhere around 35-40 degrees... with an additional 6" or so up uptravel from nuetral. But, if it's actually 2 grand, I may just be emailing Alex and getting a subframe drop...lol Add to that the $1680 for the coilovers....I think Tyler is sitting at what...5 grand for his SAS? Might have to rethink this and cut corners somewhere....or just buy a Jeep...LOL! But seriously, I won't buy a Jeep......

[nissandoms47]

Get in contact with total chaos and get some 300m extended chromoly shafts for their long travel kit for the xterra. Those shafts will work with the r50 shafts. But then you'll be extending your control arm like 4 inches lol.

sneak peak btw.



now that i can move my other hand now i can start doing stuff again. But its still wrapped up in a splint

[SixGuns]

Eh, I'm rethinking this whole thing...4 grand for a 4 inch lift? Yeah, I don't think so...not when I can pick up a Dana 44 out here in NC for 200 bucks with a bunch of gear options to chose from....then I just gotta part ways with 1 grand for the coilovers, pick up some lightly used 33's, and some hiem joints...I'll be in business...I dunno...still mulling it over. And, from my calculations, I'd have to extend the A arms out 5/8", not 4...lol. So that would be seriously overkill. But, on to your pic....2 questions....1) dude, wtf are you up to??? and 2) what did you do to your hand? I know how bad it sucks to be in a cast...after my last incident with my dirt bike, tearing something in my right wrist, they threw me in a cast for 3 weeks....still went wheeling, though!! lol Hope the hand heals back right...mine didn't.

[nissandoms47]

its a secret, and my hand should heal up good. And i thought total chaos' CVs were like 3" longer then stock. You'd only have to extend the lca 5/8" ??

[screwinitupagain]

For full details of the "hand issue" check this out (with pics): http://npora.ipbhost.com//inde...st=60

[SixGuns]

Yeah, unless my math and drawings are completely wrong, but I was using a framing angle and a tape measure on some packing paper with a sharpie while sitting in my underwear eating a bowl of store-brand cereal.....see what happens when your wife goes to a new military school and you're left home by yourself for 4 days with no one to talk to but the dog? It gets ugly real fast, lemme tell you. Anyways...yeah, with the 4" drop, to position the wheel in the same spot (width wise, maintaining the same track), the whole thing gets extended out 5/8ths of an inch on both sides...granted, when the suspension unloads and swings down, it gets sucked in, just like stock...and when it compresses, it'll stick out of the fender well...but by not even an inch, so..no biggie. In all reality, if the CV races and bearings could take the angles, you'd just need a longer axle shaft and you'd be sitting pretty...sitting neutral, I think it's running 20-some-odd degrees and after 4" down-travel, it would be sitting at around 40. If there were a way to just tweak the races inside the hub.....holy sh*t what if that worked?

[SixGuns]

So, I was thinking about it and while I'm in the process of having the rear end apart to lift/regear, might as well upgrade the brakes...to your knowledge, what Nissan vehicles have rotors on the rear that match the 6-lug pattern we have and would fit on the axle? Any? That would be a pretty slick, cheap upgrade...