You’ll likely be surprised. This is just a quick update as it’s late (as usual) and I want to keep everyone informed of whats going on behind the scenes… at least with Nissan related projects. I recently wrote about the old titan swap kit concept that we prototyped many years ago that maximizes the down travel of the Xterras and Frontiers. It was met with lots of speculation and questions regarding the extended length of the shock. As stated, I followed up with Radflo on those measurements. 19.1″ Extended on a 2.5″ IFP coilover. If you’re familiar with Titan swap shock lengths, you’re probably sctatching your head over this. If you’re not familiar with titan swap shock lengths, then your’re really probably scratching your head over this. Regardless, this more or less lines up with the additional travel we originally figured by this system many years ago. But how could this be? A few skeptics online met my posts with “CV bind is CV bind” implying that regarless of what is done with the shocks, or UCA’s.. you can’t get around the max angle of the CV’s. Which I agree with but …. actually… no. No, I don’t.
Let me fill you all in on a little known fact from nearly 20 years ago. Yes…. TWENTY. Which many people would still know about if we spent more time on the forums rather than Facebook and IG (Rant for another time). The cheap $75 CV replacements have less of a max operating angle that the OEM ones. so to that I say. Stop It! I personally refuse to run them on my Xterra and would much rather refresh a set of junkyard OEM CV’s than get knock off new ones because of a price tag knowing that they aren’t as good as the OEM ones, max angle aside. I’ve heard it over and over again. “I can break a whole lot of $75 for the cost of X”. But do you really want to? They have proven to be less reliable and have less operating angle… maybe thats one reason they are less reliable? I digress.
Use quality parts, have less problems, get more travel.
If you’re looking for used but good OEM CV’s and other Nissan parts, maybe Duncan the Nissan Parts Puller can help you out.
Since posting old info that seems to be new to many of you, my phone is ringing more regarding 2nd gen stuff, which is a good sign. If this continues, then the momentum on my end will continue too. Looking forward, I’m getting many smaller parts in order to add to the catalog. But the big question is, would the juice be worth the squeeze to fully revive this old design?
Reply below and let me know your thoughts.
Thanks for reading, Until next time,
-Steven