Gen 1 Xterra (D22) Rugged Rocks Diamond SAS

SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
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fontana,ca
Lol in all reality. Were looking for a low ride height. Even the pathfinder isn't very tall.

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SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
Location
fontana,ca
It should land about where the pathfinder is which has a ~22.5" frame height with ~6" of uptravel.

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SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
Location
fontana,ca
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xterraminator

xterraminator

Wheeling
Location
Maple Ridge,BC
That axle is friggin huge!!! Don't they use stuff like that on $90K rock crawlers? Once the truck is done its going to look awesome, cost 2x the value of the truck and I must say a job well done BUT.... are you increasing the engine horsepower, re-gearing or anything to move that beast? A lot of added weight from stock :( This is the first time I have seen such a high quality, beefy system on a stock X.
 
CaptainMorgan_SOS

CaptainMorgan_SOS

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Alamogordo, NM
caseycamby said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that the stock pitman arm there?
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If I remember correctly, the stock pitman are will be drilled out to accept the new steering linkage but it is also going to be beefed up with some plate around the sides in order to add more strength to it. Steeevo is going to have to chime in on that one to give specifics.

xterraminator said:
That axle is friggin huge!!! Don't they use stuff like that on $90K rock crawlers? Once the truck is done its going to look awesome, cost 2x the value of the truck and I must say a job well done BUT.... are you increasing the engine horsepower, re-gearing or anything to move that beast? A lot of added weight from stock :( This is the first time I have seen such a high quality, beefy system on a stock X.
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The front suspension setup is going to be basically the same as Steeevo ran on his Pathy for a couple years now. As for power adders, headers are already on and I may be adding a decent cat-back system soon. I have to change out the driver's side valve cover gasket so I will be adding an intake manifold spacer since the intake has to be removed anyways to fix the gasket. I also may be changing out the cams for the ones in a VG30 and may have some head work done at the same time, but that will be later on down the road, if I don't end up going with an engine swap. Again, that will be a couple years from now. It's got the snorkel and K&N filter and once the airbox is sealed up, that should free up a couple ponies as well. May be adding an oil cooler as well in the near future. And it is being regeared. Going with Nismo 5.571s front and rear with an air locker in the rear and LSD up front for now.
 
caseycamby

caseycamby

Suspension Lift
Location
Marion, NC
I started thinking if it was gonna be removed it probably would've been before the axle is sitting underneath it haha. I'm excited to see this!
 
SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
Location
fontana,ca
CaptainMorgan_SOS said:
Looks great! So are you looking at doing tube shock hoops or plate style brackets?
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It's going to be tube due to space restraints. I want to keep the rig relatively narrow so the tires aren't hanging out super far.
We would need atleast another 1.5" of width on each side if we did plate style.

caseycamby said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that the stock pitman arm there?
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Pictured there is the stock pitman arm but that is already removed. I have a new pitman arm specifically for this purpose. Pics to come soon.

xterraminator said:
That axle is friggin huge!!! Don't they use stuff like that on $90K rock crawlers? Once the truck is done its going to look awesome, cost 2x the value of the truck and I must say a job well done BUT.... are you increasing the engine horsepower, re-gearing or anything to move that beast? A lot of added weight from stock :( This is the first time I have seen such a high quality, beefy system on a stock X.
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What you're probably referring to as "stuff like that on $90K rock crawlers?" would be the Reid Inner C's They are a popular choice when building an axle with Dana 60 Kingpin steering components. The housing that accepts the 3rd member actually Uses the Exact same third member as Gen 1 X's all have in the rear from the factory. Is it big? Yup. Is that one of the many reasons we're using it instead of a smaller & weaker Dana 44? Yup.

The truck will be regeared with 5.57 Gears, and we just put headers on it. the power will actually be better with this setup than running 4.9 gears on 33's.

xterraminator said:
What castor angle you running? Max 3 deg?
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Nope, a bit more than that 6 - 7

CaptainMorgan_SOS said:
If I remember correctly, the stock pitman are will be drilled out to accept the new steering linkage but it is also going to be beefed up with some plate around the sides in order to add more strength to it. Steeevo is going to have to chime in on that one to give specifics.


The front suspension setup is going to be basically the same as Steeevo ran on his Pathy for a couple years now. As for power adders, headers are already on and I may be adding a decent cat-back system soon. I have to change out the driver's side valve cover gasket so I will be adding an intake manifold spacer since the intake has to be removed anyways to fix the gasket. I also may be changing out the cams for the ones in a VG30 and may have some head work done at the same time, but that will be later on down the road, if I don't end up going with an engine swap. Again, that will be a couple years from now. It's got the snorkel and K&N filter and once the airbox is sealed up, that should free up a couple ponies as well. May be adding an oil cooler as well in the near future. And it is being regeared. Going with Nismo 5.571s front and rear with an air locker in the rear and LSD up front for now.
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To maximize uptravel while keep a low ride height we have to ditch the stock pitman arm and replace it with a fabricated pitman arm.. another new product you'll see available soon.
We've only made a handfull of them and it hasn't been advertised yet.

There are many other cam options as well, I'm actually building a 3.3 for the pathfinder. I'll probably start a thread here for that when that project gets farther which willbe right after this x is done.

a few pics in case someone hasn't seen my pathfinder:

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Cruecible

Cruecible

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Location
Albuquerque, NM
SteeevO said:
To maximize uptravel while keep a low ride height we have to ditch the stock pitman arm and replace it with a fabricated pitman arm.. another new product you'll see available soon.
We've only made a handfull of them and it hasn't been advertised yet.
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Awesome! I'll be ordering one when they go public! And great looking work! If only I had the money I'd get this done too :tears2:
 
NMTerras

NMTerras

Suspension Lift
Location
New Mexico
xterraminator said:
That axle is friggin huge!!! Don't they use stuff like that on $90K rock crawlers? Once the truck is done its going to look awesome, cost 2x the value of the truck and I must say a job well done BUT.... are you increasing the engine horsepower, re-gearing or anything to move that beast? A lot of added weight from stock :( This is the first time I have seen such a high quality, beefy system on a stock X.
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Steeevo addressed most of this, but in terms of power, you can add headers, spacers, intakes, power rocks, gerbils, whatever....it's still going to be the underpowered slug the first gen motor always was and will be. The real fix is the gearing. As Steeevo pointed out, with the right gears you'll have better power to the wheels than the huddled masses running 33s on their 4.6s and 4.9s.

As far as this being the first "high quality beefy system" I think maybe you haven't looked hard enough...not to detract from what Steeevo and the King are doing here, because it's frickin awesome (this thread causes me pain on a daily basis because I sold my gen 1 instead of it being the subject of this thread), but there are some other folks who can, and have, performed similarly magical work on these rigs.

Last, what is 2x the value of priceless?
 
Muadeeb

Muadeeb

Nissan al Gaib
Admin
Location
Dallas
I'm loving this thread. Too many times the posts go
1) I'm going to SAS it
2) ????
3) Here's my SASd X

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SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
Location
fontana,ca
It's very possible.
had a slight change in plans for the new trans cossmember. so I'm waiting on laser right now.
I'm hoping to go get the last few things from laser tomorrow and then wrap it up!
 
SteeevO

SteeevO

First Fill-Up (of many)
Location
fontana,ca
drbandkgb said:
Can you explain this better? Does this allow cheaper front axels?
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Absolutely, in the past there hasn't been a good way to bolt up CV front driveshafts to the front output of the TX-10.
With the travel that we get out of these trucks with straight axles, a double cardan joint (CV) is required to eliminate vibrations.

You can't cross drill the flange because there isn't enough material on the stock flange. this is simply a replacement flange and is usable with many different front axles.

I hope this makes some sense.
Let me know if you have more questions.
 
CaptainMorgan_SOS

CaptainMorgan_SOS

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Alamogordo, NM
drbandkgb said:
When do you just chop the Xterra up and add Dana 30s?
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Hey Dave, I think you might be thinking about Xterraminator's build thread. He is doing the big chop and beefing up a D30 for the front.

SteeevO said:
It's very possible.
had a slight change in plans for the new trans cossmember. so I'm waiting on laser right now.
I'm hoping to go get the last few things from laser tomorrow and then wrap it up!
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Sounds good!
 
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