Xterrafauss build thread

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Xterrafauss build thread "The Great White Buffalo"

My 2002 xterra
"The Great White Buffalo"
She has been through a lot but she is my baby :bmmd:

Stuff I done gone and did:

- 3" Full AC Suspension lift
- 2" Body Lift
- bilsteins all around
- 33's :D
- calmini front bumper/ skid
- Hardcore Offroad rear tire carrier
- cb w/ 4 foot fire stick
- hi lift
- hi lift bumper mount
- 30" ironman LED light bar from xterraperformance(nodot)com
- 2 3" ironman LED lights from xterraperformance(nodot)com
- custom Hella work light
- tube doors (off and on weather dependent)
- Navara snorkel
- lots o' stickers
- bedlined hood, rockers, roof, hatch, headliner, and plastics
- lots of plastidip
- 2" BL
- Hardcore Offroad rear bumper w/ tire carrier (ordered)
- custom trunk box w/ built in subs and amp
- custom shovel mount

KCCO!!

List updated 4/2/14


Recent

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At the start of the build I am living in Aurora Co
Now I am in Jacksonville Fl

Alright so this is from when I got her





With some lights



Clean and no stickers and the old neons (had them on for a week haha)




Then my 3" SL
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Trunk all modded up






And the gas can isn't filled just for those just in case moments.





Then I started plasti-dip and paint

 
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Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Alriggghhhhtttttt so check list before nXm.

[X] better front recovery points
[ ] sliders (fell through not happening)
[X] new cb
[X] paint plastics
[ ] 2" BL (got the pucks need hardware and pb spray)

I got some work to do........
 
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Xterraforce

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Founding Member
Location
Signal Mtn., TN
Looking good. You're neons got me thinking, I have a set of LED undercar lights laying around that will do seven different colors. I should throw them on the Xterra and set them to white for rock lights.
 

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
The neons were fun why I had them on but I got pulled over because I accidentally left them on and got a nice sized ticket. Turned me off them haha. But the rock light idea is actually a good idea makes me wish I kept them.
 

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Nooooooo haha it's not silly just was in the picture.


Alsssssoooooooooooooo........
Got my better tow points up front all welded up and painted

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I give them 1 use before they ain't pretty and red no more
 
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Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Alright so I am thinking about ditching my top lights and putting stronger bulbs in the 4 I have down low. When I use my lights I use the down low ones simply because they project more direct light, but the lights up top light everything around me so I'm torn. Need some second opinions though before I take them off.

What do the lovely people who read my build think?

Take them off or keep them up? If I keep them I need to get a new alternator.
 

CrazySteve911

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Loris, SC
Agreed. No need for 8 lights, when the bottom four do the best. You can just take the middle two down from the top. As the two on the sides will emit the most light on your sides. See how you like that for now.

Also, how was taking off the stock shifter? I've tried and tried but to no avail..
 

CrazySteve911

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Loris, SC
On second thought, I'd just take them all off. The ones on top. Sell them, then get 2 small led floods to emit the side light. Or do whatever ahahaa.
 

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Yeah I'll probably take them off tomorrow and then get some stronger bulbs for the 4 up front.

As for the shifter just unscrew the two screws in the back of the shifter and then press in the shift button and pull hard. Be careful for your overdrive though just make sure you have a relocation switch or be happy with always having it on.


May go police style and mount two of them on the wiper trim.....just a thought
 
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Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Thanks for the compliments!

Always good to hear what you're doing looks good!

Some new stickers


And the doggggggg




Finally did this.....:D





Didn't do the back because I like the way it is looking now.....may paint them eventually though.....


Tomorrow I am dipping the front wipers in red.....:D


Tip for those who paint their plastics in the future. TAKE THEM OFF!

Hahaha :D
 
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Prime

Shut up Baby, I know it!
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Location
Denver Adjacent
Now gotta get my sliders finished and then start on the BL

Quick thought. Why would you do the body lift after the sliders? Wouldn't it make more sense to do the body lift first and then the sliders would be made to fit the lifted truck. Seems to me if you do the sliders first you'll have to change them after the lift.
 

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
looking sharp!

Thanks man!


Quick thought. Why would you do the body lift after the sliders? Wouldn't it make more sense to do the body lift first and then the sliders would be made to fit the lifted truck. Seems to me if you do the sliders first you'll have to change them after the lift.

I won't put them on until I have he BL on just getting them built at the moment :D. Thanks for looking out man! I made that mistake on my friends frontier and he has a 2" gap between his truck and the slider which works as a step but a bit sketchy as a slider.



What did you end up doing with the tail light guards?

I still got them. Want them?
 
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Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
Well bad day....x won't shift past 2nd gear it will rev all the way up to 5500 rpms in 2nd but won't shift up.

Shakes when stopping and sounds like death on a sandwhich.

So dropped it off at aamco to get worked on..... Bummmeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr
 

CrazySteve911

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Loris, SC
Well bad day....x won't shift past 2nd gear it will rev all the way up to 5500 rpms in 2nd but won't shift up.

Shakes when stopping and sounds like death on a sandwhich.

So dropped it off at aamco to get worked on..... Bummmeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr

That does not sound like fun at all...

And yeah, I'll take them off your hands, are they the square ones or the rounder ones?
 

Xterrafauss

Suspension Lift
That does not sound like fun at all...

And yeah, I'll take them off your hands, are they the square ones or the rounder ones?


It's all good man!

Here is the gaurds




One of them still has a cb mount still on it and the other just has a spot where it is missing paint from when I put Bedliner on them but I will sandblast them and get them clean for ya.

You going to nXm?
 
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