aeion's Nissan Hardbody | Low and Silly

[aeion]

Did you order fronts or rears?

[Dubway5887]

Nice, now that you've posted what shocks you got I went ahead and ordered a set too, since the retards that had my truck before never relocated the rear shocks so I've been driving a bagged bounce house lol!

[aeion]

I installed KYB GR-2 4wd front shocks as a replacement for my Pinto shocks tonight. The GR-2's compress about 0.3" more than the Pinto shocks which was apparently enough to keep me from bottoming out on the shocks on every bump. Plus the valving in these is much stiffer and these have a way nicer ride. Hopefully they last more than an hour as well. We'll see!



These were the old ones. That bump stop used to be one piece and the shock used to be blue before it pissed all over itself.

[Dubway5887]

Yeah I've got 17" escalade wheels right now....because baller? No not by choice I can assure you. Like the saw blades of nissans lol. Yeah body work sucks seriously on these. I've got a few heavy duty sanders and it still takes forever and I still ended up blocking it down by hand. I'm currently up **** creek with tons of body work to get it prepped for the booth.

[TheCrabMaster]

No. They didn't. And I certainly won't sand by hand haha. I've done bodywork on one of these before and a sander is mandatory equipment lol.

Ditto on that, spent like 3 hours yesterday sanding, even with a palm sander, it felt like forever thou

[aeion]

I do love this color...

[rice4life]

I vote deep marine blue.

The paint code is #BN6

[aeion]

No. They didn't. And I certainly won't sand by hand haha. I've done bodywork on one of these before and a sander is mandatory equipment lol.

Still debating on colors.

[rice4life]

Paint over paint? Did they at least manage to take the clear off of it?

When you do the sanding, DO NOT DO IT BY HAND get a sander. I swear me and like 6 other people are going to have some sort of lung disease because we hand sanded my friends rx7 in the high school parking lot a few years back. Took one and a half hours to do half of it hahahaha.

[aeion]

Haha the paint is pretty heavily helped out by my friend Photoshop. The whole thing needs to be resprayed as the last owner did a shitty, shitty quick job of painting the truck and it all needs to just be redone. The bed used to be white and that's where the paint is chipping off because of the PO's neglect to paint it right. There are more white chips around the bed.

Buuuuuut one day I will paint it and it will be BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME.

However, thank you.

[rice4life]

Looks great man! That paint looks gorgeous

Is that white on the inner fender on the bed? Maybe paint it black so it won't reflect so much.

[aeion]

Forgot to post my latest photo in here. Bam.

[aeion]

Ahh. Yes they do actually. But in general, if you want wheels to fit these, you have to bore the centers out of whatever wheels you get. That's what the previous owner did with my current ones.

[Dubway5887]

The wheels your looking at getting. I was just wondering. Because I keep find some decent wheels and every time the center bore is too small.

[aeion]

Who?