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[aeion]

Hey everyone! I figured since I'm starting to make some progress on my truck it would be a good time to start a thread to track my progress and such

My name is Alex and I purchased this 1996 Nissan D21 about a month ago with 133,XXX on it, completely stock with a bed that used to be on a white truck. You'll see more of that soon. I had my mind set on keeping it stock and just driving it around but that lasted about a week. I'm the third owner of the truck and the first person to even think about modifying it so it was a good base to start on. Time for ultra heavy duty premium super awesome quality iphone pictures...Meet Vlad everybody:

The two owners before me were both old men. So the like I said, the truck is totally stock and doesn't seem to be beaten or driven hard in any way...the day that I bought it






First on the list, since all was stock was NGK plugs and wires. Turns out it really needed both of them.


The previous owner lived on a dirt road and never cleaned the engine bay...not once. Not when oil was spilled on the valve cover, not when he washed the truck to sell it, never and ever. There was an extremely thick coat of dirt mixed with oil on EVERYTHING under the hood. So I used an entire bottle of Simple Green on it and went to work at the car wash. I'd say it turned out pretty well for not scrubbing anything...


Added stickers for that jdm y0 look and found a glove at the carwash. Decided the glove would be a nice touch for the bumper



Also, a mustache...for character or something


Plasti-dipped the upright chrome trim on the windshield. It's amazing how much of a difference this made


Because rust is cool


Suddenly these appeared



Time to get to work:

Awesome!


These were fun...


Because of these...meh


Blocks, bro



Shocks, dood


The redneck bit...super baller MUD TIRES


Time to play Count the Nissans!!


JDM camber


The glove of questioning


All buttoned up


Success








Compared to a stock 4WD hardbody:










And this brings us to the present! I'm loving the drop but do plan to go lower once I find some money for drop spindles. When I do those I'll also redrill the leaf hangers to drop the rear some more. Future goal is to have a static stanced truck in the current definition of the word. Details including blast pipes, some suede on the inside, some gauges, maybe 4WD front fenders if necessary, and some other dumb stuff. I'll keep this thread updated with more progress as it happens so stay tuned and enjoy!

[AlwaysStunting]

Cool where in texas are you located?

[aeion]

Commerce/Paris/Greenville. AKA Northeast Texas haha

[AlwaysStunting]

O damn I live in Campbell between Greenville and commerce! lol small world

[aeion]

Haha awesome! Idk if you've ever met him but the place that I was at putting the blocks in is Tyler's house. He used to have a bagged green single cab out of Paris that was pretty awesome a few years back

[aeion]

Vlad's twin found him


Sooper cool 90's truck on the shock boxes


What the interior looked like today


This is how I know it's not low enough....it only scrapes bumper on a steep entrance to a parking garage


It can still haul ropes and a BFHook


Ultra cool Instagram photo y0

[way2fastx3]

I like it. I like a good hard body, well in general i love a mini truck in general i should say. Great start man. What are your plans for wheels?

[aeion]

To start I'm going to pick up my buddies Denali 16" six spokes and space them out to make them flush. But first I'll probably go lower to make it look more sexaayyyyyyy

Edit: After that, I'd like to do 18's of some sort. Maybe Titan wheels, or Grid type B's or something. Not completely sure yet but should be pretty interesting. Like I said, I will make sure the final product is low with an aggressive fitment. No bags. So should be fun to watch

[AlwaysStunting]

Originally Posted by aeion

Haha awesome! Idk if you've ever met him but the place that I was at putting the blocks in is Tyler's house. He used to have a bagged green single cab out of Paris that was pretty awesome a few years back

Nope don't know him but we will have to meet up some time. Lol

[aeion]

For sure man! I'm pretty much always around going to school in Commerce

[aeion]

Well progress is slow going until I get a job but I'll be doing a yellow single fog on the front soon. Just need to find what I need to do the job in this crappy town. Update soon!

[aeion]

Here's one from a little shoot yesterday

[aeion]

Installed the supertones from the Subaru....any suggestions on a color for them?

[aeion]

Don't really have any idea how this happened. Meh



This is a comparison to a totally stock 96 4wd hardbody lol



Put the Nissan badge that I removed from the hood in the grille. And I love it there. So there it shall stay



My friend broke a stick once

[aeion]

Plasti-dipped two of the wheels black to see what I thought.



Turns out I don't really like it so I'll try white next time.

Also did the rear bumper/hitch which I really really like. Sort of hides the fact that the bumper has been beaten via trailer many times by the PO's

[aeion]

Here's a few better pics of the wheels in black

[pejsa]

moar low =]

[aeion]

Originally Posted by pejsa

moar low =]

Haha as soon as I get some extra cash, I'm going to do spindles and redrill the leaf hangers

[pejsa]

go ahead and pull the middle leaf too. your for sure going to need a notch

[aeion]

Haha we'll see what happens when the time gets here

Just need that $$$

One more for the night...I like to build forests with my air fresheners so look out for the one on this truck

[aeion]

Bitches love my stache


doink

[OpelWagenGT]

Can't wait to see what you do with the fog light.

-Aron

[aeion]

Thanks! It should look really cool

[Ant]

nice work! i don't really see any of these things modded over here, mind you i'm not in the mini truck scene. Mostly everyone does tritons and hiluxs (Toyotas / Mitsubishis).

if you dont mind me asking, how easy is the Plasti-Dip to work with? Especially on large metal pieces? There is only 1 supplier here for it and it is pricey ($40 a can) so i want to be confident in it before splashing out! Does it take much in the way of prep work (roughing up surface etc?)

[aeion]

Originally Posted by Ant

nice work! i don't really see any of these things modded over here, mind you i'm not in the mini truck scene. Mostly everyone does tritons and hiluxs (Toyotas / Mitsubishis).

Thanks! It should only get better from here

Originally Posted by Ant

if you dont mind me asking, how easy is the Plasti-Dip to work with? Especially on large metal pieces? Does it take much in the way of prep work (roughing up surface etc?)

It's extremely easy! I basically just wiped the bumper off with my hand haha. It forms a bond both to the surface that you're spraying it on and to itself so it actually sticks surprisingly well (to both of those surfaces). Also, I didn't mask anything off since you can just rub off any overspray with your hand once the Plastidip is dry.

Originally Posted by Ant

There is only 1 supplier here for it and it is pricey ($40 a can) so i want to be confident in it before splashing out!

Do they only offer it in the Gallon cans over there? Here you can find it in the average aerosol can and it's ~$6-8. If it is in the gallon container, you'll probably need to buy the applicator along with it but it should work exactly the same and give you similar results. And you'll have probably as much as you'll ever need haha.

Feel free to ask if you've got any more questions about it! I love the stuff


MINI-UPDATE: After a few weeks with the Plastidip on the bumper, it's holding up very well. I took the Plastidip off of the wheels and I definitely like the lighter look for the wheels. So next I'll be trying white.