Ripper's Adventuremobile: 2005 Xterra

[Ripper]

Username: Ripper
Year: 2005

Make: Nissan

Model: Xterra

Trim: S

Color: Desert Stone


Exterior
Melt Mod
Bedlined "S" wheels
Bedlined hood
Bedlined Grille
Shrockworks front bumper (center hoop only)
Shrockworks rear bumper w/ tire swing
Hella 700FFs mounted on Shrock
Xoskel LoPro light bar
Four Hella 500FF's
DepHep Drop in Rack
Four Raingler grab handles
Raingler REXN Net
Hella FF75 knock off back up lights ("Pilot" brand)
Safari Raised Air Intake aka Snorkel
Ironman 55" Awning
Engo EPF10000S 10,000lb Winch with synthetic line

Exterior protection
Factory OR skids doubled up (better than nothing)
AJ's Super Square Sliders with RockyMtnX brackets
Blue Torch Fab C200k dif cover in John Deere green.

Tires
Definity Dakota Mud Terrains 285/75/16

Suspension
PRG Adjustable Shackles
Bilsteins 5125's in the rear
Radflo 2.5" Coilovers w/ 600lb spring
PRG Fixed Delrin UCA's
PRG 1/2" Spacers
Old Man Emu Dakar Leaf packs with two HD Add a leafs.

Interior
Contico SUV storage box w/ custom L brackets (to lock the box down into the track rails in the cargo area)
Raingler RN90 Upper Half Net
Raingler RIXN Large Ceiling net.
"Tomahawk Mod"

Performance
Drilled and slotted rotors and ceramic pads
Doug Thorley Long Tube Headers
Doug Thorely Cat back exhaust
K&N Drop in filter

Comms and Navigation
Cobra DX III CB Radio
4ft Firestik II Antenna
Firestik Stainless HD antenna spring (SS-3H)
Firestik Stainless door jamb mount (SS-204A)
Firestik 18ft coaxial cable
Garmin Nuvi

Other Misc Mods
Diff breather extension
PRG Camber bolts
PRG Shim kit
Blue Sea 5026 12 circuit fuse block
Silverstar Ultra 9007's

Removed:
Rear Sway Bar
Front Sway bar
Mud flaps
Step Rails


Future Mods:

Short list
Hefty Fab works engine, transfer case skids
Secret project involving Bedliner.
Longer travel rear shocks


Medium list
Tuner (Bully Dog or Superchips Cortex)
Volant CAI
Optima yellow top
Hood Rod mod
Seat Covers

Long list
Titan Swap
C200k Locker
C200k regear
2" Body lift
Wheel spacers
OBA


The day I took delivery

First trip to Moosehead Lake in Maine in fall of 2009

First version of lift (front AC Coils) with lift and tires installed

First time wheeling it

Installing 2.5 Radlfo's, PRG UCA's, Drilled and slotted rotors, ceramic pads, 3* shims, and camber bolts (Fathers 78 Trans Am in foreground)

2April10 After 2.5 Radflo and UCA install

Contico "SUV" bin mounted in cargo area

Summer of 2010

Fall 2010

After Shrockworks bumper install in Spring of 2011

Only shot of my truck from the Wheeling for Warriors Run on 28MAY11

Hella's and Xoskel installed (F15 taking off in background)

 

[Ripper]

From earlier today after I installed the awning

 

[Allof75]

Very nice rig

 

[Ghost65]

Nice awning!

 

[richard310]

sweet setup. can't wait for the future mods to take effect!

 

[jonny.jpg]

Oh, so that's you on Instagram!


-Jonny

 

[stolenheron]

great X.

 

[Ripper]

Updated the build list. Here are some of the pics I took over this past summer.


Here are a few from a camping trip to Northwestern MA.

Campsite






A few shots from the Summit of Mt Greylock, the tallest mountain in MA

 

[Ripper]

The last weekend in June I replaced my radiator, stripped and repainted my sliders, stripped and painted my bumper and installed my Engo winch I got from the group buy.

After pulling the bumper, and sliders, getting ready to pull the radiator.


What the sliders looked like prior to stripping them.


Down to bare steel


After some primer


Back on the X


New VS Old Radiator


Why I changed it, it was starting to separate from the tank and leak.


All buttoned up with the winch installed and working.


Remotely mounted the solenoid for the winch


The group that showed up to help


I ended up doing a ton of work over the four days. Removed the sliders and front bumper and skid. Stripped the sliders, primed and bedlined them. Had the front bumper sandblasted, stripped the skid and applied POR15, and painted. Removed and installed new radiator. Filled and bled the cooling system. Installed the winch, remotely mounted the solenoid and reinstalled the bumper.

 

[Ripper]

July 11th 12th and 13th, Mainline Overland put on The Mid Atlantic Overland Festival in Huntingdon PA, which is just outside State College. Was a great event and a lot of amazing rights there. Got to meet some incredible people and tour some of the most beautiful areas of PA including Bald Eagle State Forest. Was about a six hour drive to get out there from Western MA. Left around 0430 and the drive went by fast with the help of some great music.

I arrived around 1030/1100 on Friday. The rig in front of was a killer Ford Excursion that was really well built.


Home for the weekend


Checking out some of the vendors in the vendors section




Friday after set up, a couple other Xterra guys and I just chilled, share brews and stories. Saturday, we went to the vendor area and talked with the guys manning the Purple Lizard Maps booth and set a route to explore.

Saw the gorgeous 80 Series diesel Land Cruiser


After a little drive on the road we hit Bald Eagle State Forest


The trail were all stock friendly two tracks. Never had to put it into 4 wheel drive. But the views we got to see were amazing.








Sunday was mainly pick up and say good bye to all the new friends we made. Overall it was a great event.

 

[Ripper]

Had a night off and was bored. I decided to replace my dead horn with a cheap Hi/Lo from Autozone and ended up walking out with some inexpensive LED strips that I decided to attach to the rear hatch to provide more light.

Install was super easy. The strip come with the good red 3M tape already in stalled. I sourced power and ground from the cargo area dome light. They are great. Throw a ton of light, shut of when the rear hatch closes. The dome light has an auto shut off after about 30 min. if you want the light to go back on all you have to do is open a door and boom they are back on. The work perfectly in tandem with the LED strip that is in my awning.







All together it made for a great inexpensive and useful mod.

 

[wreckdiver1321]

Simple but cool mod. Awesome!

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[chasespeed]

I know I've seen your X around, but, I can't think of where. I cover a lot of ground in this state...

Chase

 

[96Delica]

What did you wire the hatch lights into? Do they turn on when you open the hatch or are they switched?

 

[Ripper]

Well the Funvee is going to be going through some changes over the next few weeks. Ive ordered all new suspension to include Radflo 2.5" Remote Resi Coilovers with 650lb Eibach springs, Alcan Spring full replacement leaf packs with 3" lift (might change the order to 4") and 600Lb over stock weight rating. Radflo 2.0" Remote Resi rear shocks. In addition to that I will be upgrading to stainless braided brake lines for the front, CNC radiator supports, PRG motor and transmission mounts, new LCAs, and PRG U bolt flip kit. I will also be adding a ARB Air locker to the rear, CKMTA12 Compressor, Insain Fab lower shock mount skids and heavier duty Hefty Fabworks or Schrockworks skid plates.