Quote:
Originally posted by X-Quad:
Ok superdog. Relax. First off, the Xterra can be ran for fun or in Sportsman class. I love my Xterra and want to do different things with it. So why would you take the time to discuss it at all if your so against me? Just shut up and go on your way. No point in hasseling me.

Plus i see two companies offering long travel kits for the Xterra's so why not build it to have some fun on the beach or in the sand. I am just looking for information, but i guess i will stick to XOC instead of the RDC. Just looking for professional help and opinons, not e-thug guys like you.
I'm going to try to say this nicely, but from your above post it won't matter, because you're going to think I'm an e-thug just like Socal...

What Socal was trying to say (and I've had this discussion with Dave Blakely who IS running a 2005 X in the Best in the Desert series but I'll try to get to that later) is that racing in any form, desert, SCCA, carting, Champ, Nascar, etc...is VERY EXPENSIVE. Running the sportsmans class, or just for shits and grins is going to put you so far in the hole, unless you are independantly wealthy this probably isn't going to happen. Why? Because Sportsman's class nets you a trophy...if you place...not any $$$. The prize money that the people running in other classes win helps to offset the costs of running in a racing series.

At any rate, swapping in the VQ has been done, it was called Project X and the complete molestation that Calmini/Nissan had to do to fit the VQ in the first gen Xterra's engine bay was insane...bordering on stupid.

But, I digress. I dig the fact that you wanna go play in the desert, maybe...and I LOVE to see people put comparable time and money and love into their Xterras as I do, but I HATE to see people get frustrated because they can't do what they set out to do because of vehicle limitations.

Now on to Xterraracer (Dave Blakely).He is running a 2nd gen Xterra in the BITD series, but it's a 2nd gen with 265 HP out of the box and the class he started out in the X was the most powerful vehicle. It out ran everyone he was competing against. So it can be done, and by "it" I mean running an X in a desert running/racing manner.

As for the LT kits for the first gen X you'll have to ask people here that have them if they perform well enough to go play with the big boys.

If I left anything else or posted anything incorrect I'm sure I'll be corrected in the most ferroscious XOC manner that I have come to know and love [Finger]