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genuine nissan HICAS tie rods (different to front tie rods!) are about 250$ for both. from nissan. not cheap. but if you go ling long...well...yeah

well if you got a GT-R I wouldn't use ling long, but I own a R33 GTS-t (ling long is acceptable) haha :)

^ maybe he likes HICAS :)

Theoretically it makes sense to have HICAS, and the system was revised in Series III GT-Rs like yours Paul, prior to that HICAS was pretty shit.

I've tossed mine in the bin too, but I own a fridge.

A lock bar doesn't really solve the problem that you probably have anyway. The outer tie rod ends are the spot that wears the most, and a HICAS delete bar leaves those in place. You'd still need to replace them.

Question.....does 5500 rpm relate to a particular road speed at all? HICAS is known to exhibit it's problems at particular speeds because the HICAS computer reaches "panic mode" at those points when given sensors are not working. Steering angle sensor is one that people often accidentally lose when they put a different steering wheel on the car and the hub doesn't have the drive pin for the steering sensor. On my car (last century) it would crank the steering wheel over to the (left? right?) by about 45掳 when over 80km/h just because no steering sensor. HICAS panic. No steering sensor also meant I couldn't put it into diagnostic mode which made it very hard to work out what was going wrong. The HICAS computer also looks at VSS, and for all I know in the later GTRs it might even be looking at the G sensors. There's lots of things that can make it act flaky.

Try to put it into diagnostics mode (no, I don't know how to do it on your car, only on an R32). Failing that, get a mechanic with a decent scan tool to hook up to the Consult port and see if there are any codes in the HICAS computer. You may have to take it for a drive and trigger the fault to see anything.

Try to put it into diagnostics mode (no, I don't know how to do it on your car, only on an R32). Failing that, get a mechanic with a decent scan tool to hook up to the Consult port and see if there are any codes in the HICAS computer. You may have to take it for a drive and trigger the fault to see anything.

yeah I'm thinking the same

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