"most retarded handling 1st gen altima on the east coast"
Interesting. Red Lion is Central, I'm 6 hours away from you.
I would expect you to do much better than us. We have quite a few complaints about our own setups and much improvements to be made.
Damn that is quite a list! So red is central so that means not the east coast right? I didn't realize that you were that close to me....i just figured different country so I can't count you as American east coast lol. You really expect me to do better than that? I'm gonna try....but at the rate i'm working on it you'll be miles ahead of me by the time I get to where you are now haha.
Me in the engine bay, I just had to take these pictures:
The engine bay:
My buddies showed up to lend a hand:
The leaky dirty KA:
And a random pic of her just chillen where she's parked for the week:
and in case anyone cares....the maxima is a 5spd. Black on black leather. And it's in flawless mechanical and cosmetic condition. I want to buy it from my dad as a daily driver.
So I don't really feel like reading all the stuff I posted earlier, but I can definetly say this project is NOT where it started.
It started as a simple semi-wire tuck to cure some dangerous tire rubbing. This is whats gonna get done now (obviously some of it has been done):
Degrease engine
Replace all engine gaskets (besides head gasket)
Remove A/C
Remove Power steering
Remove Egr completely
Rewire fuse boxes into glove box
Completely tuck all engine bay wires
Paint engine bay gloss black
And possibly paint the valve cover. And possibly spot weld (seam weld) a few spots here and there in the front end. Nothing crazy though. Still not sure about it.
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all im going to say man... is DAM... you got yourself into some shit lol... the best of luck dude. i hope it all comes out good.. keep up with the pics looks like you got a lot of shit to put back... and i thought swapping a tranny was a lot of work lol
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Best of luck man. It should really help clean things up. How long are you figuring it'll take to get done.
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People will tell stories of the legendary white vq powered altima that races down the touge late at night when no one's around. All you can hear is the vq heel toe sound rolling through the mountains, but it's a ghost, no one has ever really seen it, only stories exist. But it's out there, oh it's out there.
Once you have the engine out it gets really easy to take it apart. Make sure you catalogue and image process all components. Torque specifications can be found on both nicoclub as well as ka-t. Of course, utilize your FSM as well.
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5 and a half inches of clearence w/ 1" wheel gap? Thank you 235/40/18's... Thank you.
For right now im not driving anything i live in a house at school so during the week i dont need a car. I just come home on the weekends to my parents house to work on the altima since thats where my garage is.
I'm not going to rebuild the engine since i dont have the time or the funds. I did put all my bolts in ziploc bags and labeled them to keep everything straight.
It actually should be easier to put everything back since im removing so many things that I wont have to put back in the engine bay. I plan to finish up by the end of my spring break from school which is the first week of march.
on a side note this is the first time i've posted from my phone so i hope it turns out well
and...once again...i still hate you....j/k while the engine is out you should paint it black as well or atleast the block....you have to keep the theme going
i still hate the fact that you have one clean ass 2nd gen altima... everytime i see the dam pictures in your sig it makes me jealous. ill ship my altima across the us to where you live and you can make it pretty like yours :P lol..
I'm definetely painting the inside of the engine bay gloss black. Also probably filling in the random bolt holes that will no longer be used with welds.
I was thinking of painting the block because it looks kindof rusty. But I don't want to because I'm planning on building a different motor anyway for boost, so i'll probably have the new engine's block powdercoated silver. This engine I really don't care too much about. Also, unless I paint it absolutely perfectly the paint will probably chip off in a year or so. And at that point it'll look better to just not paint it.
i still hate the fact that you have one clean ass 2nd gen altima... everytime i see the dam pictures in your sig it makes me jealous. ill ship my altima across the us to where you live and you can make it pretty like yours :P lol..
Hahaha. It's not easy lol. I take way too much care of it tho, I care too much lol. She's just getting better too haha. But shit man, I'm jealous of you man, you and your new damn 5 speed Alty lol.
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