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1987 Nissan Hard Body

BAGLESS (2 owner profiles)
Owner: Patrick Rios
Purchased: 1999-12-30

Engine

Dual side draft 45DCOE Weber carbs, polished stainless header and full Magnaflow exhaust, with other performance mods... Clean up with paint and chrome...

Exterior

2" chop, bed shortened, new handmade cowl, custom core support, handmade sheetmetal grille, modified 06 Jeep commander headlights, new firewall, custom tubs, shaved handles/gas door, Full sheet metal bed, handmade buckets to house Chevy Colorado tail lights. Custom bumper with cutouts and frenched in 06 Nissan 350Z bumper lights for the turn signals. All sheet metal designed and fabricated by Aaron Iha.

Interior

Sheetmetal dash, center console, and sub enclosures designed and fabricated by Aaron Iha, Lokar floor shifter, Autometer gages, Chopped and reshaped Integra bucket seats wrapped in leather and suede, along with door panels, headliner, arm rest, and sub enclosures... One off Colorado Custom full billet steering wheel, aluminum steering column, and other billet interior accessories throughout the cab...

Suspension

Full tig welded tube chassis(SFBD), HYDROHOLICS single pump, five dump manifold setup(thanks Aaron and Derek),Parker accumulators, Toyota Supra third member, rear cantilever setup with Fox 2.0 shocks and custom trailing arms, custom front lower arms with hydraulic cylinder/strut design (no uppers), custom strut crossmember, custom spindles. All chassis/ suspension designed and fabricated by Aaron Iha.

Wheels

20x8.5 inch KMC Units wrapped in Falken 245/35/20s...

Stereo

Pioneer In-dash, Memphis hybrid amp, components, and subs. Kinetik power cells for the dros and stereo...

Awards

Received a few of those...but more importantly...having a pretty cool truck to cruise...and drag at WCN...haha.

Future Plans

Keep cruising it...