Last EJS on the Golden Spike run..





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any more pics of that truck?

oops, i mean the p/u

i think the reason calmini hasn't brought the sas kit is because, they're probably waiting to see what rro, and tt are bringing out. if calmini was to bring their kit out now, and later rro & tt's versions are of better design, and cheaper it would have been a big waste of money to start producing thier kit.

either way though if you want an sas setup. it would cost about the same all said, and done. I have a design setup in my head that i would like to attempt someday. it would be toy axels with coilover shocks. if i get my hands on a set of good toy axels i will do the swap.

i think the suppliers should bring a kit to market, it won't sell to the cheap crowd, but not all of us are that way. if a good strong well designed kit were available i would buy it, and if they never come out it wouldn't stop me from building my own if i wanted too.

  I dont think Calmini is waiting on anybody to build it first. Calmini was building a Sidekick aftermarket long before RRO or Trailtough even looked at these as something other than a sami donor vehicle. Calmini was prototyping the SAS almost 2 years ago. They are not waiting to see if  anybody elses design is better.  They have some of the top designers, welders, and Quality control people in the buisness.

Nobody on this board should be wondering why Nissan got the SAS first. If you go to the Xterra board you wont find people saying they think 2k is twice what they paid for the rig. They are happy that its so cheap.

 I do think Calmini will come out with a SAS for the Sidekick. I dont belive they would have invested so much time and money prototyping the SAS in Erics rig just to walk away. This was a while ago but I talked to Steve at Calmini about the SAS for the sidekicks and he said they had designed a second setup that would be slightly cheaper and easier to build than Erics setup.

So if you were to build a SAS for the Nissans or the Sidekicks which would you build for first? The group begging you to build it, or the group telling you its too much money. A smart vendor is going to build what will sell.

Mike

 I dont think Calmini is waiting on anybody to build it first. Calmini was building a Sidekick aftermarket long before RRO or Trailtough even looked at these as something other than a sami donor vehicle. Calmini was prototyping the SAS almost 2 years ago. They are not waiting to see if  anybody elses design is better.  They have some of the top designers, welders, and Quality control people in the buisness.

Nobody on this board should be wondering why Nissan got the SAS first. If you go to the Xterra board you wont find people saying they think 2k is twice what they paid for the rig. They are happy that its so cheap.

 I do think Calmini will come out with a SAS for the Sidekick. I dont belive they would have invested so much time and money prototyping the SAS in Erics rig just to walk away. This was a while ago but I talked to Steve at Calmini about the SAS for the sidekicks and he said they had designed a second setup that would be slightly cheaper and easier to build than Erics setup.

So if you were to build a SAS for the Nissans or the Sidekicks which would you build for first? The group begging you to build it, or the group telling you its too much money. A smart vendor is going to build what will sell.

Mike

exactly, why would they spend so much time and money just to hear the people they want to sell it for bitch about how much it costs.

[and now time to offend some Nissan guys]  Calmini knows that anyone dumb enough to buy and Xterra and then is dumb enough to try and wheel it, will fork over alot more dough than us wiser and more frugal Zuk guys.  But those old Nissan pickups are cool though.
 Oh and 92, I don't think they went to too much trouble designing the Zuk kit, afterall how many of us have scratch-built them in our driveways.  Mike's right, Calmini's gonna cater to the guys who want to pay them.  If we wanted an SAS kit bad enough, there would be more of us clammoring to pay $2500 for it.

well calmini gave us all a tease about a year and a half ago about this kit, which was supose to come out within six months. since then no info has come forth, not even a full review on eric's rig. i'm sure eric is under nda agreement with them, cause if i were him i couldn't hold the details on my rig for that long. so i guess we'll all have to wait and see.

remember an idle mind is a devils playground  

The thing that really surprised me about those Nissan's at the Calmini Customer Appreciation Run (over Golden Crack) was that the approach and departure angles on those Nissan's is HORRID.  Makes me glad to be driving the Gnewt!

The thing that really surprised me about those Nissan's at the Calmini Customer Appreciation Run (over Golden Crack) was that the approach and departure angles on those Nissan's is HORRID.  Makes me glad to be driving the Gnewt!

Well, not every vehicle can drive into the crack before driving back out.  

Well, not every vehicle can drive into the crack before driving back out.  

True, true...

this one made it though also, approach angle be damned