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: The Evolution of Delilah (My 'X')


dothedrew040
10-05-2010, 06:20 PM
Last month marked the one year anniversary when I bought my Xterra. Here are some pictures of how she started, where she's been and where she is now! Her name is Delilah, as so named by my girlfriend...

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The afternoon that I brought her home. Untouched!

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The very first thing I did, the second day I had it was swap out all of the old for all new Alpine sound.

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My first time engaging the 4x4.

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Then I had to restore my NISSAN logo back to its original white color. Had my father cut out a stencil on his vinyl cutter thing, and I sprayed it white.

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Felt the need for some more lighting so I started this.

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Ended up throwing four more Hella's up top.

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I LOVE a good snow day. Nothing better!

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Put some new shocks on it. The old ones were rough

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa377/andrewwilliams071/010.jpg

Moved the Hella's to the bumper. They make more sense down there for me. I hardly used my roof lights.

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My cats recently went bad. Noticed my exhaust was rusting badly. So I did the eBay thing and got the Nismo cat back system and four Magnaflow free flow converters. She feels 1000lbs lighter now for sure! 40 miles more per tank of gas.

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Got this to go along with the new exhaust. I'd hope that they compliment each other.

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Recently bought our Hankook AT's. LOVE them

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And this is how she sits now. Just added a Yakima LoadWarrior I found on craigslist and threw my spare up there to make some more space. I noticed I had bottomed out on it a couple of times.

...who knows what will come next.

tylas1
10-05-2010, 06:22 PM
pml and bl !!! And lots of black paint

dothedrew040
10-05-2010, 06:44 PM
I'd love a BL! I did however take it to an alignment shop and they said they would adjust the ride height in the front as much as possible while still keeping close to the factor specs for alignment. Makes me nervous with these new tires on. I'll be rotating every 3,000 now. I don't want to fool with a BL myself and I don't know who I could pay to do it for me :-(

tylas1
10-05-2010, 07:24 PM
check the diy for bls its not all that hard ive heard but very time consuming . AS far as the front ride height they'll jus crabk your torsion bars which you can do piece of cake then your half way done with a pml

AaronsX
06-01-2011, 12:05 PM
Hey man, I'm not sure if you remember but a few months ago we were talking about trading vehicles. You wanted to trade this X for my jeep. Well I have a X now lol, yours is still pretty sick! You should holler at me so we can go wheeling.

TimRich
06-01-2011, 12:12 PM
Looks good man! The BL and PML are both pretty easy.

xearth
06-01-2011, 05:29 PM
did you paint your rims white? I can't tell for sure in that last pic but they look good!

dothedrew040
06-03-2011, 09:41 PM
Ha, no. Just really clean. Thanks though.

dothedrew040
06-03-2011, 09:44 PM
Hey man, I'm not sure if you remember but a few months ago we were talking about trading vehicles. You wanted to trade this X for my jeep. Well I have a X now lol, yours is still pretty sick! You should holler at me so we can go wheeling.

Definitely! Know anywhere good to go?

AaronsX
06-03-2011, 11:33 PM
Definitely! Know anywhere good to go?

Um turkey bay is the only real offroad park I know. Its over at land between the lakes in western ky