So it's been a while since I posted here, but I've sadly also had to change trucks. My Xterra's frame was badly rotten and I patched it up the best to could until find a replacement. The plan was another 2002-2004 Xterra but I couldn't find a clean (yellow manual) one, which only got worse during the pandemic as the ones that existed were asking close to if not over $10K USD. Considering I'm in Canada, the exchange, shipping and duties would be killer and as much as I love the truck, it wasn't worth that price.
I then came across an ad for a V8 Pathfinder, something I forgot existed.I did that that one as it was a a bit beat up for the price but found and got another one in great shape shipped
literally across the country from B.C. to Quebec. It likely didn't sell cause gas prices were ridiculous in B.C. at the time and it was a SMOD truck so listed as having a new transmission and I think it also scared people off because of Nissan's CVT reputation. I just recently passed the 3-year mark and have been working on getting it caught up on mods. I'll always miss my old Supercharged manual 5-speed Xterra, but the more I mod the R51, the less I do and the more it feels like "my" truck.
The gist of what's been done:
- Z1 intake, R8 ignition coils, 90mm GM throttle body, JBA long tube headers and UpRev tune
- Front and Rear TRE4x4 e-lockers and regeared from 2.9 to 3.36
- 3" Suspension lift with Airlift 2000 bags
- Falken 285/70r18 Wildpeak R/T tires
- Dual batteries with a 125w solar panel and Xantrex 2000w pure sine wave inverter
- Projector headlights, LED everything, light bars, signal bar and pods.
- Wam Wincher with 10K lbs winch and reinforced brush guard
Next big items are ASFIR aluminum skid plates, sliders and a Titan 200 amp alternator. Eventually a snorkel.