Well I dont know anything about the X, but it does look sweet! Pic came off of the AC board, and I thought I would share it with you all. Don't know if it rubs or not, but it looks damn nice!

when did the X become a moon buggy... looks liek crap to me

Is there any down travel? It looks like it has to be resting on the bumpstops.

What a useless pile of shit.

That thing is good for one thing, driving in a straight line on sand (when it's not in the shop getting ball joints replaced every week).

Luckily it has CALMINI steering on it.

thanks for the nice replys...... :rolleyes: fyi, my X does not rub at all, jus had to take the mud flaps off, i got about a 1/8th in. before resting on my bump stops. as for wheeling, you should check out my other pics on the hills..... btw, that was my first time on the sand, it was hella fun!!!!! 15x14rock crawlers, 33x15.5swampers SX
the reason i put this combo on is to see if the calmini steering holds up.... and another thing is i like to see the faces of the toyota boyswhen i'm comming down the road!!!!!

aloha

eastside,
Where are the pics of the X on the hills? I personally would like to see them!

Nice X

wus up Xfactor, www.hawaiianhardbody.com its under 4x fun day, it's the silver X with the blk rockcrawlers.....

aloha

I only see pictures of dirt roads.
I've seen driveways worse than 'Tie-Rod Hill'.

I assume it's named that because poorly designed trucks like yours, with horribly offset wheels break tie-rods all the time. Let me help you out, it's called 'leverage' and an IFS truck like the Xterra can't handle that amount of offset and weight.

I wouldn't be surprised if you break the CALMINI tie-rods as well, because they aren't designed for what you have done to that poor Xterra.

I'd have to say it looks fairly useless with the bling bling rims too. But I'm sure people can say the same thing about my 34 x 9.50 tsls too.

I think that the truck looks unreal. I Love It. What exhaust do you have on it? What lifts do you have on it? Great job!!

those tires look more like 31's. i would think that even with your 3+3, 33's would be much closer to the fenders. i personally think they're too wide too but that's just me.

Yikes. What kind of lift is on there? Those tires gotta be rubbing something when you turn.

He took the mud flaps off the front, and I never heard any rubbing (I've wheeled with him plenty) Eastside has the AC BL, Sus L, AAL's+Shackles.....Like I say I've seen it up close and it's a freakin' monster! He is really testing out the Calmini Steering with those monster rims and tires!

thats just too wide... it looks like Ghetto Cady and an Xterra had babies...

i could only see justifying wheels that wide if you were running 44's

seriously... i have 15x7's with 31x10.5 the tires just look wrong when the wheel is the same width(or close to it) aside from the lack of protection for the wheel and flex of the tire.... i would be afraid to air that thing down for fear of busting a bead

the truck would look good if the wheels where like 10" or maybe 12" wide

All I see is a red X?

You're looking at my truck?

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it's been like that all day...

the images are back now

ok, it's live again. stupid stupid stupid...

This is what happens when you have bad role models.... hawaiianhardbody

This only makes the rest of us look better, so feel proud that you didn't do that to your X.

I'm still laughing about that sand photo. How retarded.

I agree except to me it looks like the bumpstops may actually be removed. The angle of the lower A-Arms would indicate that plus the camber is way off indicating full droop. It's definatley set up for posing.

Hey, at least now we will finally get an Xterra in Offroad magazine.

With him posting pics like this for his "Steering Section " i can see why you might consider him a bad influnce.

Wasn't he the one who drives around without the front and back sway-bar connected?

eastside... Sweet X man.. 1st one I actually like.

Hey check out this HB, I have an X, and I wheel with him in Florida, this SOB goes places I cant even imagine going and mine is jacked ( locked, compressor, 33's, all the trimmings ). I once had to have him pull me out strapped to another buddies X in some deep Florida mud. I swear this is the badest Nissan HB I ever seen. Its on 39 x 18 Mickey Thompsons, with 18 x 15 Weld Racing rims, custom upper A arms and a trick custom steering system, both designed by the owner, this guy knows his stuff. My guess, here in Florida he could prolly outwheel anyone on this board, or any Nissan owner for that matter, giving the Florida terrain. Those tires are sooo wide, we over inflated them 1 time, and well I dont know if you know the Caloosahatchee river down South, butthis dude is crazy, he crossed the river!!!!! Cops gave him a ticket when we got to the other side, carlesss driving, go figure... Anyway, check out some of these pics... Im sure youll just love em...

Again eastside... Sweetest.....

I think one picture through the mud road is enough to get the point across. :rolleyes:

Now let's see what that thing does on some rocks.

I don't know what the big deal is here...in the words of the immortal Rodney King..."Can't we all just get along?"

Everyone here is gonna build thier truck to thier own liking and style of wheeling. I'm sure that the way Eastside is configured, it wouldn't make a rockcrawler (but let's face it, if you want to crawl, IFS ain't gonna be your best bet anyways, you're better off with a built up Jeep or Sami)

But for the beach runs (the majority of the wheeling accessible to us in Hawaii) the wider the tires the better. That X was just glidin' over the sand (untill I got stuck up to my frame and he had to try to pull me out)

Anyways, to each his own, build your rig custom to the wheeling you do and just enjoy it!

OMG! Please, please, please put that thing on something besides a dirt road or mud.... I bet it would break tie rods in my driveway........

Anyone else notice that EVERY image that this moron posted shows his truck going in a strait line and on level ground? Perhaps that is how he keeps it from blowing up parts.

HawaiianHardbody..

If you making jokes about cows is the only way you can respond then that is just sad.

BTW. If you are trying to show how all of those wonderful AC products "fixed" your steering why don't you post the pics of your truck NOT looking like a club foot.

Can you guys SHRINK your images maybe? 640x480 MAX please.

If you look in the pics, its a custom steering system designed long before calmini, and slr even had theres out. Gee wonder where they came up with there ideas....

Carlton McMillan

Im sure he would have pics of off camber things if he could find an off camber areas in the Everglades of Florida. Do you honestly believe someone would make a rig that didnt work for there area??? I mean who is the moron here??? If we lived in Moab, Im sure our rigs would be designed differently, dont you? Yes I think so...

I dont get people who dont realize this.

Re-read your sentence (with a 4th grade English teacher close by, if necessary) and bask in the sheer irony of what you wrote. Priceless.

The only faces we'd be making is :rolleyes: and

and since he is from hawaii you would think thats what he would want to do is go in a stright line in the sand, if i were fortunite enough to live in hawaii i would be on the sand 5 of the 7 days in the week and my rig would prob look something like that maybe not as big but close

Makin' progress: Details

Look - no IFS stuff left:

guess we now know whos gonna have the first SAS Xterra

Hmm, he did an SOA conversion on the rear axle as well. It's gonna be big...

Brent

Well...you probably don't have too many sandy beaches over there in Colorado. :rolleyes: But over here, where the majority of wheeling is on the beach, that setup is perfect. The wider the tire, the bigger your footprint, and the easier it is to float on the soft sand we wheel in.
99% of the trucks that wheel over here, Nissan, Toys, Fords, Chevys, Jeeps, no matter what, have very wide tires. If you don't have 'em, you are stuck...if you are locked front and rear, then you might have a chance. The rigs with wide tires just glide right over the sand. Anyone with "pizza cutters" has the sense not to try taking thier truck on the beach...too darn soft!
A rig built for wheelin on rocks will be configured differently than one built for the sand. People over here understand that and build them accordingly. When they have the "4X4 Tour around the island" every year, about 50 or 60 trucks all get together, all makes and models, and do a parade type thing around the island and downtown Waikiki. Maybe two or three trucks will have 11.5 or 10.5's. The rest really wide. It took me a while to get used to it, but after getting stuck out on the sand 3 times, I've learned my lessons.
Funny how none of you people live and wheel under these conditions, but have so many negative things to say about what you don't understand :rolleyes:

makes sense.... but i still think its ugly...

maybe after he does the SAS and it is talle rit wont look so "moon buggy"-ish

Like I say it took me a lot of getting used to, but in an environment where everyone who wheels is doing it "Island Style", it's pretty much just a fact of life.

Me? I'm still runnin' 31x10.5's on stock wheels, mostly because I will be coming back to the mainlaind in a few months, and will probably never wheel on the beach after this. So...not worth it to me to spend the cash on wide wheels/tires, but if you click on my link, you can see how well I do in the sand :rolleyes: ...compared to the guys I go out with...

Eh! To each his own

We have plenty of sand

Did you do any damage jumping your truck like that? If not, what lift, shocks, torsion bars, add a leafs are you using?

Nice shot!

That's nuts! I saw somebody do that over here once...it was funny to watch all thier stuff go flying from the cargo area up front and out the front windows on impact Nice shot though!

I may be dead wrong, but the sand looks nice and compact in the top shot...I'm telling ya...these beaches over here are like quicksand!
But not that I'm complaining about suffering on the beach through 80 degree weather and bikini girls all year round :p

Best one yet Ian...

Thank Mr. Kramer from CALMINI for christening me with that in Moab last week.

That launch was probably in Pismo... in california - where we have BOTH beach and mountain wheeling! Sometimes, like at the CalX events - both in the same day.

We all do some crazy shit... both within and with out of bound of warrenty and sanity - but that's whay we're all here... isn't it?

We all drive Xterra's and love to brag about our lives.... lets all just get along anf enjoy the scenery along the way...

If you cant be quiet... shut the hell up and find another to add a few linesof code to...

Of course it looks like that beach cruiser will break tie-rods in moab, but its in Florida and staying there...... Its looks like am R/C and I like it! move on....


-alfonse