One of the earlier pictures of my high school possession with The Van. I must've spent close to 3 hours washing and waxing it; that roof is HUGE! Check out the ricer Integra GSR exhaust tip. |
Once every twenty or so years, the City of Davis gets cold enough to drop a "blanket of snow." How privileged. |
Being one of the longest vehicles in the lot, it's only appropriate to back The Van into its spot instead of torturing that steering pump and parking forward. |
The Van was sold in December 2002 to a well-deserved family who needed a hauler for the Flea Market. It was pretty hard letting her go, but I guess it was time to move-on. |
Define MINIVAN. The new van sits on the right while The Van engulfs sofas, folding tables, mattresses, blankets and futons, while the new van takes the smaller hardware. Here's where the transition to "new van" starts. |
Pretty much in its stock
form, the Quest is on our Tahoe trip. The tires were unbalanced,
so 75-80MPH was rumpshakin' time. |
Here's one of the best mods I did for the Quest, the rear stabilizer bar. GXE means cheapness, so I went to Courtesy Nissan and shelled out almost $200 for this. Although most of the part numbers were wrong, they all fit perfectly and my van noticeably rolled less. |
Another great mod is the 2000 MAXIMA GLE wheels I acquired. I did some research and came up w/ the perfect tire match: 225/60/16 Bridgestone Potenza 910. Grip heaven here we come. |
You KNOW you're special when you get to eat in the Quest. That's Vicky. That explains everything. Make good use of that light baby! |
A clean picture of the Quest after 2.5 hours of washing and waxing (smaller than The Van). |
The Quest sits ready for its next adventure, inviting guests to enter from both sliding doors. |
A host of other mods adorn the Quest. I found the matching overhead console on Ebay for $20 (regularly $150) and did a clean install. The TV/VCR combo was ditched for $200. I took out the silencer and put in my own CAI and routed the duct to the foglamp opening. HELLA airhorns are carried over. The huge sub from hell hogs the rear, and an MP3/CD/Tape/Radio deck dishes out the beats. Let's not forget the static strip. | If ONLY it looked and performed like the Asia-only Nissan ELGRAND (NISMO model shown). VQ35DE, RWD, one SWEET instrument panel, fit-anything interior, triad-transport grade, I'm gonna import it here. |
But for now it's the Quest. I've slowly transformed it to fit my tastes better. Here it stops on HWY 1 to sit pretty for a picture with that hot chick in pink (I guess she's got the CalPoly "pink" fever as well). |