Originally Posted by
unijabnx2000
He may require it to be a group buy also.
He told me, the market on our axles kinda died and he would have to order parts (doesnt stock them anymore) to reman OEMs.
Thought I'd drag this back from the recent past to add a little more info to a good thread.
What happened with the sr20 axles, according to Marty: Back in the late 90s he had tons of OEM Nissan cores in stock here in Gainesville. He likes the sr20 crowd and got a lot of good business from us for years. The policy was always core charge and he would ship you out a set of Raxles with OEM nissan shafts and all new, case hardened components. As the cars got older and people bought them used, he started getting the garbage aftermarket axles coming in as cores, which can't be rebuilt with the correct parts. He became more cautious, but people insisted that the cores had to be OEM and they were mistaken, and his supply dwindled over the years.
He simply does not have OEM cores to work with anymore, and very few people out there do because most of them have been returned to auto parts stores as cores after people buy the cheap $50 brand new axles.
Last we spoke (I'm literally the only customer that ever shows up at the shop in person), he was still very interested in making us axles. He said any genuine sr20 axles that I can source would be great and valuable, so I'm sure he would set up a group buy if we could scrape together a bunch of OEM axles. He also claims that the b13 axles are stronger/thicker than the b14 axles, but that it doesn't matter unless you are making huge torque anyway.
So who has OEM Nissan half shafts laying around?