Quote from: Mikerpm4x4 on December 12, 2005, 08:06:06 PM

They are about the same size as the toy CVs but they can achive steeper angles.
Mike

How do they achive the steeper angles, are the nissian CVs stock?  Are they shorter or longer than the Toyota CVs?

My Cvs are a Nissan / Tracker Hybrid. I dont have the exact measurement but I belive my Cvs are 6 inches longer than stock. By same size as the toys I meant same strength. The inner balls and cages are almost identical.

Mike

Im leaning tward making a complete new frame for the front suspension starting at the point where the frame stretch took place on the rockstar. In doing this I want to be able to run the upper control arms under the oilpan, to the center of the rig. Comments welcome!

Mike

Muhuhahaha, Sounds like a long travel desert racer.
So how much lift would that be, like 8 or more inches

So you going to keep it a family rig or do another two seater with this one? Watch that front end streching, the further back you move the COG the quicker the ass end wants to come around (it jumps good how you have it loaded now) 

Weight comparison wise, I bet you could get a 4x4, long travel, pre-runner kit for a TACO and mate it to a kick  When I was watching Johnathan build his Tundra, he showed me lots of cool double arm IFS stuff for Toyotas.

Next time you get bored let me know. I've got something you can wrench on 

Back to work,
Zig

For those who have forgotten or are new, I have had a custom front drivetrain for 2 years now. I got a prototype Calmini built center mount anvil front diff.

Do you have some pictures from it?

Quote from: Mikerpm4x4 on December 12, 2005, 08:06:06 PM

For those who have forgotten or are new, I have had a custom front drivetrain for 2 years now. I got a prototype Calmini built center mount anvil front diff.

Do you have some pictures from it?

I do but the pic is too large to upload. I can e mail to you.

Mike

Here is a pic.

Mike

Thx. Looks good. I'm curious how your project will develop. I'm going to tru to do almost the same. It don't has to jump for me but I want good flex and still maintain onroad drivability.

Here is a pic.

Mike

Have you had tranny troubles lately?

-Eric

Here is a creative frame mod on a Tacoma, that you might find interesting.

http://www.desertrides.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4876

Quote from: Mikerpm4x4 on December 14, 2005, 07:51:53 PM

Here is a pic.

Mike

Have you had tranny troubles lately?

-Eric

What is wrong this that? It looks normal to me. 

Zig

Have you had tranny troubles lately?

-Eric

Just with destroying front struts. After I blew My OMEs Ive been grabbing every used OE strut I can get my hands on. I can Blow a OE set in 1 day of wheeling. Ive been stalling on buying OMEs cause I want to put the money tward my new setup. Ya know, I just didnt realize how tuff the OMEs were till I didnt have me anymore.

To be honest I havent wheeled the Orange rig more than a handfull of times since the rockstar has been built. Pretty much only when I had my kids with.

Mike

BTW if your comment was geared tward all the bent and leaking components.... Well thats just another reason to start fresh. on a side note, Bent does NOT mean broke.

why not start fresh with another kick?

Stu

why not start fresh with another kick?

Stu

  Its not that bad is it!

Its been so good to me. Never left me walkin in over 200K now. Till it does its still my baby. That rig and I have been through a lot. Im pretty sure its still got a few more good times left in it. It just needs some attention. 

Mike

at the amount of work your talking about, why not make a custom tube chassis to get everything where you want it, then drop a kick shell onto it. 

HMM, independent front/rear, why not get an entire yota drivetrain engine and all.  Swap on an independent rear set up and then do custom double A arms to get the lift/width you want. 

could be almost less work to build the structure you want with a wheelbase for a kick, and then just figure out how to mount most of the body to it.