nice, show em how its done...
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nice, show em how its done...
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Lol! Kids and there X-terras. Yeah I had some stupid kid in an X-T pull up beside me at a stop light one night. It was pretty pathetic. He revved his engine I just gave him a glance. The light turned green and we were off. All I could here was the sound of his tire squeal in between gear changes as he fell further and further behind. Then I stopped at the next light and he revved again. I let him pull ahead this time then I pulled up beside him waved and left him in the dust.
Im not condoning this kind of behavior but sometimes you just haft to say “WTF!”
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thats funny because my sister has a x-t but that thing has NO POWER at all...the only time i drove it i was seriously dissapointed....
however, one of my buddies just STOLE a x-t from someone...
04 x-t with ARB lockers front and rear, $1,600 roof rack with ladder and all(gobi rack), 4" lift with mudder tires...around 50k miles...
got the whole thing for like 8k....
i tried to convince him to trade me....he said if i got my VX painted lime green he would trade...
needless to say that thing KICKED arse offroad.....made my VX with brand new wranglers looks like a honda...
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Yep, For the money a used X-T is an excellent truck for an off roading rig. Nissan has been making variations of that platform for over 20 years so there’s plenty of parts. But you'er right it is gutless.
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Nissan thru the years had build good vehicules such as the pathfinder,to me one of the most longlasting-hard to give up trucks out there along with the toyota 4runner & the rodeos,my brother in law-to-be had a 1995 pathfinder with more then 200,000 miles & he never had any mayor issues more than a broken CV joint,no engine light,no oil pressure lost i mea nothing.
When my brother in law when to pick up he new 2005 path the sales man didn't allow him to trade the old pathfinder,he give him $ 1000 in cash right there to use it as a down payment,took the old path & the title.
He said : Man those old paths are warriors,the new generation aren't so well built as the old ones in japan.
The all new redesign XT looks more agressive,higher stand & probably better quality,but the engine specs doesn't do a good job,a 3.2L. or 3.5L. should be better, i really like them.
Put what those guys were pretending on the parkway the other night was awfullDidn't they saw the 3.5L on the VX front fenders
Probably they thought that because the VX's smaller & the XT stand higher they were like : Yes,go for him !
I guess the true saying applied there : don't look at the bottle's size,but what it contains
Dakar was just the begining.
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In 2005 Nissan revamped the X-T and pathfinders F-Alpha platform with a more powerful Engine, a 265HP 4L V6. It was a big improvement over the asthmatic 3.3 V6 it replaced. The sad thing is that Nissan offered a SC for the 3.3 and it still had less power then the VX.
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Right before I bought my VX new, The X-Terra was one of the vehicles I was checking out at the time and the 3.3 SC'd engine was described in magazines at the time as Nissan's way of "buying" more time out of an obsolete engine before they could bring the 4L to market in 2005. I remember seeing that the 3.3L without SC was like 170hp and with SC was still less than 215 hp of stock VX.Originally Posted by kodiak
The sad thing is that Nissan offered a SC for the 3.3 and it still had less power then the VX.
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Hmmmm! Lets see...he had lockers front and rear. If you had the same there would be a huge differance. But out of the box stock vs. stock I think the VX would school the xtrerra!
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oh, agreed, but he paid much less than me and he owns me currently...Hmmmm! Lets see...he had lockers front and rear. If you had the same there would be a huge differance. But out of the box stock vs. stock I think the VX would school the xtrerra!
once i lock i will be showing him hows its done
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Agreed. I owned a 2000 Xterra for 6 years and yeah, compared the VX, it's weak sauce.
Bart
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Not an Xterra story, but I was going over Independence Pass (the continental divide) outside of Aspen a couple of summers ago and had an Audi A4 hugging my tail. The pass is a super twisty road and the Audi was ticking me off so I decided to screw with him (I know I shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist). Every time he got right up on my butt and started to try and pass me I would floor it and zip through the twisties. The VX stuck to the road like glue and I would pull away from him because he just couldn't keep up. I would slow down and let him catch back up then punch it and speed ahead again. When we finally got to a long straight away I slowed down and let him pass, but as he did he wouldn't look over at me, and sheepishly kept his head down as he crept by.
HA! You just got left in the dust by an SUV. How ya feelin' now?
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Hmmmm, my brother has a 2005 X-Terra. Might have to challenge him to a race next time I see him.
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