The Nissan Path

I dont understand why Nissan couldn't provide these from the factory, or at least have them on the top of the line LE's like my Pathy.
When I purchased my used 08, the plastic tip from the hood support arm was brocken off, I almost lost my finger once, when the hood arm fell and hood closed on me.
Here are few pics of how the hood looks like with hydraulic hood support struts. these are stainless stell. so much easier to work under the hood, and you don't have to worry, if the oem hood arm will not function properly:

where did you get these? i'm assuming you just bought some XXXlb struts and found spots to attach them?

i just broke that damn plastic tip off my hood prop, so i'll have to replace it somehow. and if i'm gonna replace it, might as well go with struts!

Did this about 9 months ago. Alot of reserch.... they actualy make a kit specialy designed, with few different options, like regular black steel struts, ss struts, different quality mounts, etc. let me find a link and ill post it in here. I always save all my reserch. They have them listed as Nissan Frontier, Pathfinder & XTerra hood struts.

Here you go DoctahJones And everyone else:
I purchased : Quick Lift Elite, Thats the best quality one, there are 3 different quality levels, Its made by Redline Tuning:

http://www.redlinetuning.com/QL-NISSAN- ... R-05+.html

Full color instalation Manual Link:

http://www.redlinetuning.com/online_manuals.html

sweet, thanks for the link. might be doing this real soon....or exhaust....or this...decisions...

For exhaust I decided not to go with any exh. headers.
for 1 I have cert pre owned warranty till 105,000 miles,
and there is alot of work envoleved. and for maybe 10 more hp's
at least the way I did it is still dealer passable, I never had any issues at the dealer.
Since all the mods I performed on my exhaust system...
I did it in this order.
1- Gutted the Primery cats.
2- Stainless Steal high flow 2ndery B Pipes, with O2 sensor defuser relocators, which work great with no CEL's
3 - From there I went with 2 1/4 inch ss pipes
4 - Dual in, Single out Flowmaster big block series 70 suv muffler,
and 2 1/2 inch ss Tail pipe end hidden behind rear bumper.
kind of factory stealthy look.
So everything was kept as a factory design just larger diameter piping.
had this setup for 8 months.
Then I decided to change the flowmaster muffler to Magnaflow Muffler.
Found flowmaster to be to loud. Did alot of reading and from others doing Dyno testing on titan pickups was found that Magnaflow gives better power gains. Regular driving is much quieter, and flooring it gives nice deep note but not as loud as the flowmaster.
and no I didnot use any resonators in both setups.
Maybe in flowmaster it would make it more melow, but what is the point when Magnaflow sounds better and performes better, and its also 2 in, 1 out oem setup.
Just my 2 cents from trying out both ways, maybe ill save others from doing it twice like I did.

Nice post. I've been wanting to do this on my pathfinder because the stupid OEM rod does not hold open the hood very high at all.

i'm guessing this would also help the hood bouncing issue while driving?

mar1 wrote:i'm guessing this would also help the hood bouncing issue while driving?

i seriously doubt it helping that part...

mar1 wrote:i'm guessing this would also help the hood bouncing issue while driving?

bouncing issue?

Yeah I got the bouncing issue, it actually frightens my wife. Anybody got a fix for it yet. Hood latch is fine...

Nice find! I've only seen crude writeups on Xterra and Frontier forums the past few years, and certainly never came across any mention of a kit. Looks simple enough. Added to my list.

Steve,

Glad you found this link. I know you had posted info from the X forum on a "how to" but I never got around to doing it. Glad Forgottenzone found this.

Very nice! Thanks for the info.