A work in progress

A work in progress;
UPS, FEDEX, Truck Freight.......
Damn, with all the freight charges to Alaska, I could have bought another Xterra!!!!!

First let me tell you that truck freight sucks on delivery times, UPS and FEDEX Charge way too much, and USPS just plain Sucks!!!

I am still waiting on some parts....

So Here is what I have done so far:

Calmini
........3" Suspension Lift
........Steering System
........High Performance Exhaust
........LSD's
........All Installed

Automotive Customizers
...........3" Body Lift
...........Customizers Lift Lips
...........All Installed

SkidRow
........Front Skid Plate
........Engine Skid Plate
........Transfer Case Skid Plate
........Fuel Tank Skid Plate
........Leaf Skid Plates
........All Installed
........Diff Skid Plate (in transit)
........Rear Bumper/Tire Carrier
........(Full Kit) in transit

ShrockWorks
...........Rock Bars (in transit)

SkyJacker
.........Nitro 8000 Shocks Installed

Rancho
......Steering Stabilizer Shock installed

CenterForce
...........Dual Ceramic Clutch Installed

BFGoodRich
..........M-T TA's, 285/75\R16's On the truck

AmericanRacing
..............16/10 offset rims On the truck

1/4" wheel spacers, might go bigger

TJM15
......BullBar with winch mount installed

Xterraparts.com
.........Vent Visors Installed

Clifford (DEI)
........Alarm/Remote start with Proximity sensors Installed and 6 each 12 volt Super Bright Blue LED's two each in the pillers, one in the front grill, one each under the front door handles and 1 each under rear door handle, all wired thru a relay to handle the voltage, and Tazer hard wired in ( cant tell you what it's wired to)

Clutch bypass switch (made it myself)

StreetRacer
..........Neon Face Gauges Installed
(fit perfectly)

High Performance Cam and related parts (local shop did work)

Wolf Tech
...........PopCharger
...........Throttle body Spacer
...........Chip Replacement
...........All Installed

The lights on the front bumper are small, but they are HID, Driving and Fog, (go figure)

Mean Green
..........180 Amp Alternator Installed

6000 Watt Inverter

Sony
............PS2 for games and movies (I have kids)

Orbital
.......Dual Sealed Batteries Installed

JBL
.......12" 1000 watt Pros 4 each bridged at 2ohms in a custom box

Sony
........2 each Explode XMDS-1300P5

1 each DHD NTX3104

2 EA 5 FER'S Caps

1 EACH 10 FER Cap

MB Quart
........Satellites in the front doors and Pillers

MB Quart
........6x9's in the rear

Rear view mirror with Temp and Compass

48" High Lift jack

Misc Off Road and Emergency supplies

Garmin
.......GPS

Escort
......8500S

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/802203

I dont see any pictures.

Try the link at the bottom of my post...

Here ya go



nice truck!

Very nice...love the way the full set of skids really flattens out the bottom of the X...

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Ok, what am I doing wrong here, I read the directions on posting pics 3 times, had 4 beers, and still I cant get them on

Ok, just curious what is it do you do for a living, how long did it take to get it to present and how do you get your wife to let you buy all the toys.

I figure either Im real poor, my wife is super practical or I just "sell" my hobby to her.

No need to answear the qestions its just every time I bring up things I want for my X a fight insues.

We need a support group or somthing for poor balles chaps like me.

Oh by the way nice X.

I drove the X home from the dealer in July 2003,
I was not going to do anything to it, just leave it stock, I used my Toyota for 4weelin, river crossings, glacier trips and so on, I was out on a camping trip and saw an X with some light mods and asked the wife it I could build the X, her reply was "only if you upgrade my wedding ring"

Ok, $4000 dollars later the ring is blinding me, but I got the ok for the Xterra.

I ordered everything on line one night and have been working on this for 1 week, all of the parts have not arrived yet, still back ordered, intransit, or being made, as in the Shrockworks rock bars and the rear diff skid plate from Automotive customizers.

No I am not rich, but I do have a well paying job.
I am a material coordinator and part time fire fighter in Prudhoe Bay, AK.
North Americas largest Oil Field.

The hardest part of doing these mods, was running out of beer.....

I'll tell you guys two things.

One: Most women do not understand the value of a modified vehicle to a man. They see it as transportation. Transportation that for any reason other than a point A to point B trip is to be completely ignored.

Two: Women do not understand the costs associated with a modified vehicle. A normal car tire - $60 -70 dollars. Does she NEED to know that your tires were $135 apiece? No.

Normal car shocks are 25-40 bucks. Did she need to know that mine were $250 each? No. Why? It doesn't matter. Why complicate things? She wouldn't undestand anyways.

You need to establish a slush fund. Your slush fund is made up of your gambling money, beer money not used and other assorted cash that you may accrue over the course of the year. Now that you have your slush fund to pad your purchases, you are able to justify paying X number of dollars from the household account for a mod because you are not dinging the account for the entire ammount.

You are padding the purchase with the slush fund.

It makes things a lot more palatable. Trust me. I'm driving arround the $40,000/$25,000 X !

I think I got this fingered out..

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Maybe I didnt...

Niiiii-hiiiiice....

Need the differential skid



It's not super important... as the H233B is tough as nails... but with everything else you've got it kinda stands out

No, dont need another one, UPS has a delivery date of monday, 03-14-05,

Thats how second day service works here, you pay for it, and they fly it here, but UPS tells you that it's truck freight.

So it sits at their terminal here in Anchorage for a week before they deliver, and you cannot go pick it up.

Lifes a bitch, aint it?

wow man nice X. wish mine looked like that...

Nicest X I have seen in a long time

Thanks for all the compliments....

Yes Indeed...I gotta agree with Claus also....

Cool X and it's nice to have a guy from Alaska around here. I've only been up there a couple of times, but I absolutely love it.

When you take trips up there make sure to bring the camera along and post the pics when you get back - shots of wheelin' in Alaska would be a nice change of pace around here.

Welcome.

Right now is not a good time for going offroad.
We are having a weird winter, happens every few years.
It snows, then rains, then the temp goes up and down.
Real ugly.

I will take photos when I do go and post them.

Let me say..Kick Ass!!!!
Great truck man....

Tim

pnwbeers

It's nice to see a person who knows about Alaska.

If you call the FEDEX 800 number in Tenn, the people there will tell you that Alaska is a country that they dont deliver to, for a couple of reasons, first, they cant find it on a map, and second, because they dont take Alaska money.

HELLO PEOPLE, Alaska is a STATE, the 49th to be exact. And we use the US Dollar, also the Canadian dollar, they live next door.

very nice

It really is...simple, effective, all the right parts done in the right way...Great job...Oh...and if you get a chance...next time you go "glacier traveling" with the X instead of the Yota, make sure to take some pics...We have lots of pics of X's in the mud, X's in the sand, X's on the rocks, X's in the water....But don't think we've seen any pics of an X on a glacier...

Definitely a nice truck! Good work on it.

(only thing I dont like is the instrument cluster mod, but its your truck )

I will take pics when I go.
I will have to go to a place called Jim Creek, cross the Knik River, it's about 6' deep depending on the time of the year, always cross going down stream, you will end up about a mile away from where you started, I always break rear shock mounts here, grade 5 and 6 bolts dont hold up well, drive a few miles across an old glacier bed, now it's rocks and sand (the usual stuff), the go thru the (tunnel)it's a river pretty much, 4' to 10' deep and about a 1/4 mile long, then another few miles to the glacier, thats about it.

To tahoe_x

It is dark here about half the year.
The stock does not light so well.

I also replaced the original white lights with Super Bright Blue LED's.

You can see them in the picture, but when they are all on, I think you would like them..

I meant to say, you (cant) se the LED's in the picture, but when they are on, the entire cluster lights up, easy to see, and kinda cool (a nice side effect)

Here are pics of my other TOY!!

You have very good taste in trucks.

Well alrighty then, I have just finished taking measurements an I am gonna put 35's on her, Wont have any probs with space, looking at gears right now, to replace, HHmmm
any ideas?

Sweeet ride for sure
How about some video (for sound clips) of one of those river crossings?

Edit to add- I guess I didn't see the 2nd page 35s'd sure look nice on a solid axle X, like yours.

2nd edit- Check out my boy Steve. LINKY If you've got anymoney left for your TOY, he can help you let it go ...

"6000 Watt Inverter"

is that peak or continuous? and where did you find room for a monster like that.

I had a hard time finding room for my 600 Watt. I do want a 6000 though.

dude, SICK yota! very very nice

22RE right?

Yup, the Toy is an 1989, first year with that body style.

22re is what it is..

used to ru8n side drafts on it, but the tickets were adding up way to fast...

dual shocks on each tire, dual stabilizers, and kicker shocks on the rear, kept it smooth..

SSHHHHHWWWWEEEEEEEEETTT!

Cripes I WISH I could dump that kind of $ into my Xterra, even if it were over a couple of years...

FYI, you mounted the U-bolts at the front of the engine skid upside-down...

Brent

whats up with that guy on your guest book saying that you can't put a body lift on an X. He seems to think it's a unibody like the XJ...

Tom

that is the nicest X i have seen in a while...

good work!

Brent - You mean the ones that are supposed look more like this:





I think his got too cold....look, the plates all turned blue.

I could get the bolts in the correct way.

Just could'nt get the hands in there to put the nuts on.

I have full sized hands, trying to work on Japanese sized cars.

I put them on the best that I could.

Yeah - I had to glue the nuts to hold them in place on the rear skid...what a bear!

Carry spare bolts . Have you ripped any off yet? The plates look pretty clean..

Whats the alarm with tazer? You plan to shock would be thieves???

Nope... I have some people up here talk about using the same thing. It is for BEARS, they know vehicles have food and they will bust em up pretty good.

PS: Nice X

Goddamn, that's a lot of parts! Nice truck, I'm green with envy over here.

No, I have not tore any bolts off yet.
Just put the plates on a ouple of days ago.

Well Alrighty now...

The Rear Diff Skid Plate has been delivered along with the Shrockworks Rock Bars.

Just gotta let the paint harden up, and on to the X they go!!!

Still waiting on the rear bumper and tire carrier to get here.

I also ordered a new rear view mirror, the one that auto dims,has a compass and thermostat.
The fisrt one sent to me didnt survive the trip, USPS, go figure, Got another on the way UPS 2nd day, here we go again, transit times....lets see how UPS does on not destroying this one like the post office did.

How did you mod the Xterra into a hovercraft, that's sweet

Fantastic looking X but the bears crack me up.


Just a little higher Billy come on push.

Hey dude can you move it up a little I need to plug your truck in to warm up the coils.

Does my butt look big in this?

I swear to God Frank if you poop on my head I will kill you!

What are you looking at? You'd live up here to if you were this ugly.

Nice comments for the pics!!!!!

Erik Snyder

You would'nt believe what I went thru to morph the Xterra into a HoverCraft......

Great Xterra , that how iwant mine to look in the future

Wow! You practically have every mod in my ever-growing wishlist for the X! Only mine will probably take forever to fulfill

Got the rear Diff Skid and the Shrockworks Rock Bars on.

Can I ask how you rigged the clutch switch? Thanks!

Great! Someone else who likes to paint things. I like the blue skidz.

I enlisted the help of my 12 year old daughter, she has tiny hands.

Last night we were able to reverse the bolts.

You guys shamed me into it, so I corrected it.

Putting in a clutch by pass switch is pretty simple.

First you will need a switch, I put in a two postition, (on-off)12 VDC, 15 Amp, not the momentary type, I found with another truck I had that you cant always have a finger on the momentary switch. Never had any bad side effects from using this type

You will need some wire (red and black) I used some 12gauge I had laying around.

Next just find the switch at the base of the clutch peddle, there are two wires coming off this, you want the one that has POS 12 VDC with the key in the "ON" position (not running)connect that wire to the "OFF" side of the switch, run a ground wire from the "ON" side of the switch to ground the other wire coming off of the clutch switch. Test to make sure you wont start in the "OFF" position and you do start in the "ON" position. If connected incorrect, just reverse the wires.

Mount the switch where ever you feel comfortable.

You're the man. I'm looking at heading up to the Anchorage area as a AK State Trooper...what the hell, sounded like an interesting job for a couple years. Wish my '03 Granite looked as good as yours. Llet me know if you're looking to play around on someone else's truck

Come on up as a State Trooper,

They have cool jobs, always on the move, you get to see the state, the list goes on.

Yea, when you get here I will help you work on your Xterra.

But your not allowed to arrest me..hehehehe

If I ever go back to Law Enforcement, I could never arrest an Xterra owner unless I HAD to. And if you helped me work on the truck, I could probably overlook just about anything

I'll keep this in mind if I make it up that way! At least you can still drink in Alaska!

Look me up when you get up here..

By the way, if I do something to be arrested, then I suppose I will probably deserve it!!

Got pics of your X?

Sure...but I can't seem to get any of them to post on here. PM me your email and I'll send you a couple (you might want to ask the question in about 2 weeks when I have a lift and new tires. Everything that I have actually had the time to install so far is performance stuff..engine work. And I'm making some custom wiring harnesses for roof-mounted lights and for hardwiring in a power inverter and some other things. Let me know.

Pic 1, let me know if this works

This is with JUST engine and performance modifications. I have an old GI footlocker in the back filled with parts that I haven't had time to install but I'm getting there. Let me know what else you want. Hehe I have differential carriers on the counter in the apartment (nice living alone again...sometimes...) .

Mine looked like that before puberty!!!

:p

Nice ....