Username: tjtalan
Year: 2000
Make: Nissan
Model: Frontier
Trim: ?
Color: Gray
Mods: There’s not much Nissan left.
Interior: Carbon fiber dash with Autometer procomp gages, race intercom and wired for race radio and gps. Beard seats, full interior cage and ventilation system.
Exterior: Fiberglass bedsides, hood and fenders. Front and rear bumpers tied into cage.
Drivetrain: Chevy 350 with a .30 overbore and a built th400 trans.
Suspension & tires: The front uses SLR boxed upper and lower control arms with 10in travel 2.5 SwayAway race runner shocks and SwayAway torsion bars. The rear uses Deaver springs and king 18in shocks. It sits on 33-11.50-15 Good year wrangler tires.
So this truck just kind of fell into my lap. I went into business with my father in law and a friend of his. All of us have been playing in the desert for years, but my father in laws friend, my now parter is a racer. He runs a trophy truck and a class 1 buggy. I am an automotive technician by trade so naturally we all spend time wrenching on the toys.
I go out to his back lot one day and just sitting there is this truck. It’s just wasting away, so I call dibs and we make a deal. It’s an old stock class truck, so the torsion bars and leaf springs stayed on the truck. However they got the most out of it for sure. After the truck was retired it had a Chevy 350 and th400 swapped into it, and the engine was pushed back about 10in.
My plan for the truck is a good clean up and some paint. Basically go through everything, make sure it is mechanically sound. Then I will take it out and see what it can do! Some likely upgrades will be front coilovers and nitrogen bump stops all around.
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Year: 2000
Make: Nissan
Model: Frontier
Trim: ?
Color: Gray
Mods: There’s not much Nissan left.
Interior: Carbon fiber dash with Autometer procomp gages, race intercom and wired for race radio and gps. Beard seats, full interior cage and ventilation system.
Exterior: Fiberglass bedsides, hood and fenders. Front and rear bumpers tied into cage.
Drivetrain: Chevy 350 with a .30 overbore and a built th400 trans.
Suspension & tires: The front uses SLR boxed upper and lower control arms with 10in travel 2.5 SwayAway race runner shocks and SwayAway torsion bars. The rear uses Deaver springs and king 18in shocks. It sits on 33-11.50-15 Good year wrangler tires.
So this truck just kind of fell into my lap. I went into business with my father in law and a friend of his. All of us have been playing in the desert for years, but my father in laws friend, my now parter is a racer. He runs a trophy truck and a class 1 buggy. I am an automotive technician by trade so naturally we all spend time wrenching on the toys.
I go out to his back lot one day and just sitting there is this truck. It’s just wasting away, so I call dibs and we make a deal. It’s an old stock class truck, so the torsion bars and leaf springs stayed on the truck. However they got the most out of it for sure. After the truck was retired it had a Chevy 350 and th400 swapped into it, and the engine was pushed back about 10in.
My plan for the truck is a good clean up and some paint. Basically go through everything, make sure it is mechanically sound. Then I will take it out and see what it can do! Some likely upgrades will be front coilovers and nitrogen bump stops all around.
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