Well, since I had to take off the snows today (bald like slicks) I decided I might as well put on my ES sway bar bushings. Piece of cake to put them on. Also test fit the stillen lip today. Still debating whether I should paint it or not. Looks pretty good without actually.
Sunday I'll be doing the speedo blue leds. Hope these ones are bright enough. I know a few of you want to go with different leds on the speedo so I will post pics when done.
Next week, ES LCA bushings and new end links. And possibly ES motor sub frame bushings...
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Hey Ray I was actually going to mention that too, I have seen the Stillen lip unpainted on a few maximas on the org and it doesn't look to bad on a black car. You should just leave it on unpainted and see how it goes
The motor mounts were easy to remove and to butn out, the problem I had was trying to find a shop that would remove the metal peice that is inside the sleeve and press the new ones in. I must have made around 15 calls to various shops, but I finally found a place.
Have yo found a write up for the LCA bushings as I really can't find anything on this one.
good luck with the leds in the speedo, which are you going with?
Well... I started farting around with my new bright blue leds. And I found out something very interesting. Did you guys know that the speedo cluster on a 5.5 is actually blue? I tried putting the blue leds in to test for brightness. Went into my basement and put an led in one of the openings in the cluster. Looked dim as hell. So I took a very bright white led flashlight to look into the opening to see what was going on in there. Low and behold the white led made everything light up blue!! So I have ordered these leds to try out...
Bought the car used and the speedo cluster has always been a dull yellow color and at dusk I can't even see the cluster because it is trying to "change" from clear on white/silver to the pukey yellow on black.
Hopefully these will work.
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Took the upper and lower intake manifolds off this weekend and replaced the stock platinum spark plugs with iridiums, put newer coil packs from an 05 altima on there as well. And since everything was apart I figured it was an excellent time to finally install Aaron's NWP Phenolic spacers. You guys have to get these. The air intake temperature is about 40 degrees cooler when the engine is warm. And it makes the car sound a bit throatier. If you want to add some sound but don't want to add a muffler this may do the trick for you.
Went to dandymax's place this weekend to do my ES poly bushings on the front control arms on Sunday. Unfortunately we couldn't get the work done because the ball joint nuts are seized on there and I had no spares ( found out they are 9 bucks per nut). SoI am going to order brand new control arms and all the hardware (washers nuts etc).
I'll take the new ones to work and press out the crap rubber bushings and replace with the ES poly. When they are put on the car I will have a used set of front control arms. So I'm wondering would anyone be interested in buying the old arms? I can order a new set of poly bushings to put in my used ones and new moog ball joints. So basically you will have a set of control arms with poly bushings and new ball joints for cheaper than buying brand new.
Let me know if you are interested and we can talk about price.
New bushings and ball joints will run about 180 bucks.
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253.50 fwhp
249.75 lb/ft tq
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