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Last week we bought a log splitter. Have been borrowing a mates one for the last few years in return for servicing it. But its huge, heavy and slow. New one is just a 20ton unit - will be more than ample and its light enough to tow behind quad. Gooes hard and its quick! But not towable up our tracks at this ride height with its silly little wheels... So I made a new chassis for it. Used random steel bits from rack and the wheels are the old ones left over after we had made new gear trailer racks for local kayak company.

I need to make one of them!

You'll easily get the rear seat back in place if you want. My tunnel is higher than that. I just modified the steel seat base (easy to do - lots of wet towels placed carefully to stop burns) and it sits in place fine. I'm 188cm and can happily sit in the back if the passenger seat is moved forward a bit. Seat is quite comfy but yeah - only for short trips. No seat belts in the back for starters.

In other news - I have been very un-trendy and have installed the stock springs that came with the car, along with the stock waffle wheels. Its now sitting 35mm higher and feels nice and softly sprung when I rock the car. As much as it doesn't look as 'cool' I do look forward to a less crashy ride. As I suspected though - the front struts had no bump stops installed so that explains the real horrid and harsh smashing when hitting the worst potholes on the trip north. I have bought some new bump stops and they were fitted when swapping springs over. I might look for some spare struts now and fit the Tein springs to them. This way I can swap out the whole lot easily and compare properly. The tein springs are progressive rears, same diameter and coil count, just wound a tiny bit shorter. Fronts are same coil count, set 50mm shorter but have a 1mm thicker coil diameter. The rear springs are super easy to swap out - a 5 min job.

Not this one but they do a 7 seater called a Cubic. 170mm longer wheelbase.

Maybe if all of us with smaller lathes combine our powers..

I'm not sure that even my 4 jaw would hold that flywheel in order to machine the boss down. I have no faceplate either. @HumberSS do you know anyone with a machine shop/large lathe?......

Yeah you could easily loose some of that!!!

how much meat is there on the flywheel hub ? A bit off that and a bit off the wider ring gear and seat would give you the room?

Get him to fix it? Do you think its a genuine mistake because he's old and doddery now or was he just being a lazy careless fuck.

I think the CVT on the cubes are made in big hat country. I see why now.

Adds another car to look for at wreckers and starts scheming. Thanks

I don't seem to spot many Tiidas about until I hit a section of road which would be super fun to drive fast. Then suddenly up pops a Tiida being driven way too slowly. Like 2 nights ago...

From what I know to do the Mr18 swap you need to start with a cr14 engined cube.

I'm looking forward to @a.craw4dcube project. I think we all need to pressure Adrian into making it happen. silvias etc etc are so yesterday anyway.

Through my very limited searches I have not seen any manual boxes. But I have wondered why it is others have not done this? I can only presume there's some electronic reasons with the BCU where it needs signals from the cvt unit? I'm figuring the speed signal is from the box but possibly its from the abs sensors? Maybe the driveshafts are different and cant easily be worked around? @tortron possibly knows more about this shit with his wingroad tinkerings. The cvt unit really works very nicely - way better than the one we had in that k11 cab. The style of car and its intended use suits having a cvt.

The my Valet friend in Marahau called to say he'd already cleaned up the seats I'd dropped off to him. They look great. Really happy. $75 well spent Fitted them last night... They are a sort of suede like material. Very comfy. Dark charcoal sort of colour. I've given the floor mats a good clean and they came up great too. Its all looking very clean and new inside. Ideal place for a very fluffy white cat then. See him scheming...

They are rebuildable for sure. Jatco/Nissan has in the last ten years really changed their ways and made all the parts available. Plus there are so many specialist firms ad parts places that cater for the ever increasing amount of CVTs out there. I fancy getting a spare, known to be working, box and then I could take my time to strip it down, upgrade the bearings etc and have it ready to install if this ones bearings start to rumble.

I feel very secure here and hence I have come out. I'm glad you like it too. We must meet sometime.

you forgot the part where you buy a bike rack worth more than the car.

We'd not have it if it weren't for your heads up

I think that a tiny little turbo could be easily fitted to the HR15 engine and the ecu would probably deal with it. Not that I would. but just thinking.

Also - while I was at the wreckers yesterday they told me about a Note they had in for a repair. It has 3 cylinder engine and a supercharger! I never knew such things existed. I've heard of the impulse cubes that have a charger but I didn't know of a 3 cylinder HR engine.

I didn't know what they were off until @xsspeed told me (on one of our late night nissan chats)

Never. I've enough other projects to finish.