Well, I'm not sure even in 2 years there will be that many Nissan people willing to spend the kind of money to get the job done right on a X. But then again I see SAS Tacoma's all the time

Considering that new 4x4 X's cost what at least 23K...up to 30k with all the goodies, then add what people spend on previous mods, plus the cost of a SAS (say 2k for the basic kit, 1K for a custom front axle/shafts, 1K for new front/rear gears, 1k for lockers, 600 for front drive shaft & rear SYE, and say 3K for a shop install for everything, and all of sudden you can have almost 40K invested.

Of course there's way of saving on the SAS by doing some of the work yourself, getting used stuff, bartering/trading like I did or going with leafs instead of coils or coil-overs, etc. I think Rondo's SAS coil over frontier turned out very well and he's spent around 7k+ plus with the waggy D44 axle like I have in the pathy. His drives better on road compared to stock while my leaf pathy isn't nearly as nice but you get what you pay for.

Staring with a used vehicle 1st that relatively inexpensive such as the early 90's HB's and Pathys makes more sense to me. However with the prices of 2k X's falling they become more attractive.

Go SAS and you'll never go back and that's true in many ways…next thing you know you're thinking about a roll gage, trimming sheet metal, bobbing the cargo area, 35” tires , spending more $ than you bargained for, and the “Ultimate rock and road challenge”.

BTW I would rather use/see a H233B up front with some alloy shafts than a D44 since it would be stronger/less likely to break stuff IMO. But yeah a HP D60 would be sweet also, are those early ford ones kingpin?