chubibo

these are a lot of modifications!

have not really done anything to my ride. i love it the way it is.

changed my halogen lamps to higher wattage and put in a set of foglamps. my ride did not come with the factory foglamps. i also got the cargo bay shade and would like to get the rubber liner as well. that's it.

i have it waxed at the local meguiar's about once a month. still looks good as new. have it for one year this month.

 

aussietrail

Hi Guys,

Thought I'll show you my latest addition.

The exy with super dooper roof spotties is here. hehehe






OK, the mod was not done by myself, so I took it to a local auto electrician who spent on it half a day and it's still not finished yet.

We looked at everything and decided to do the following next weekend to tidy everything up.

1. The sockets that you now see visible coming from lights will no longer be there.

2. The roof rack weather strip is getting inserted back next weekend too.

3. The 2 sockets at the bottom of each roof rack will also be made less visible.

The whole set-up is detachable and can be taken-off along with the front roof rack.

I bought a spare roof rack to replace this one when taken off, if I decide to use the luggage box instead. (highly unlikely now that I have seen the light) hehehe

The wiring as I suggested to the electrician came from the back of the roof racks and followed the weather strip rubber along the windscreen and got tucked neatly under it (2 wires from each side of the windscreen)

I was not happy with the little bit of wire showing at the corner of the windscreen, but we just couldn't do anything about it. No room for it to be tucked away at all, so we decided to leave it like that (being black is not that bad I reckon)

The lights are mounted on Rhino roof racks and brackets which I realized Rhino was selling.

The whole set-up, especially the "chrome" lights really stands-out and looks awesome.

Can't call the exy a SUV anymore with this amount of lights LOL

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Terranismo

Jalal, how about routing the wire through the rear hatch. You could just follow the weatherstripping. You can also try using the rear spoiler holes.

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aussietrail

We tried that as well, but because my rear spoiler is aftermarket, it is fitted differently (i.e. on top of the roof rails) plus the idea of removing the roof lining in full to be able to pass through these wires did not look exciting to me.

In addition to all that going all the way to the tailgate and back to the engine bay (where the relays are) will dramatically increase the length of the cable/wire, which means less power to the lights and less bightness.

It doesn't look too bad on my exy because it's black, but that small bit of wire will stand out more on other color xtrails.

I will attempt to squeeze the wire under the roof rail on that corner if I can.

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Canada's Far East

Well done, mate That's a very impressive set-up.

No doubt your plan is to only use them off road - BUT, if you were to have a power outage, you could light up half the neighborhood - and charge the prevailing hydro rates - more money for accessories

Enjoy = Roger

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aussietrail

Funny you mentioned that Roger. hehehe

We had very high winds days lately and the power was playing a bit at home, so last night I told my wife "why are you complaining about me spending money on these lights, I had a different idea when I put those on the roof of the exy" LOL she said "yeah, like what?" I said "back-up lighting for the house should we loose power" hehehe She walked inside without saying a word, but still was not convinced

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wasabi4ever

WOH... so its like daytime for you when you drive at night huh ?
I think if you just forget to turn off your lights for just 5 mins... your batt is done.

aussietrail

It's pretty hard to forget such amount of light when am leaving the car LOL

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Sergei_dekker

thats what i call a proper off roader...*thumbs up*

aussietrail

Hi Guys,

The roof lights project has now been completed.

The auto electrician has done a perfect job today when he re-wired the lights and fitted the weather strip back on the roof racks.

No more bulky plugs to be seen coming from the lights either.

They look perfect now I think.

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aussietrail

Hi Marc and all,

The Australian Twins can now be made available to you and all other members overseas for a price of $750AUS (excluding freight)

This price has been confirmed to me by Hi-Tech Mufflers Australia as a special deal to the Australian X-Trail Forum and it's members.

On a side note, I have been informed by Hi-Tech that we now have a confirmed 10KW power increase at the wheels as a result of this mod, which has been proved by dyno tests. ..........................................

I have also been advised that it would be a good idea to have a piggy back ECU installed to further increase power by another 10-15KW, but mainly to make the fuel mix leaner, as it is running a bit rich at the moment.

I'm not familiar with the piggy back ECU concept and was wondering if you guys can help me out in this regard. Should I install it or not and what are the side effects?

Thanks guys

Details of the ready made twins kit and dyno results, can be found HERE

I want the POWER LOL

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ValBoo

Hi Jalal,

Thanks for the info on Hi-Tech Mufflers... do they have a web site?

There is some misunderstanding in your KW power numbers... so I decided to remove part of your posted numbers. see pm.

As for the piggy back computor and adjustment of the air fuel ratio, this has been discussed before in a "How to thread" last summer:

http://www.nissanforums.com/showthread.php?t=97934

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aussietrail

Marc,

The link to the Hi-Tech Web site is part of my previous post, but it can be found HERE too.

Thanks for the link

Not sure what you mean by "misunderstanding" but I was quoting Australian version xtrail KW numbers, which are different than yours in Canada I believe.

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aussietrail

OK Guys,

I have been itching for a while to do something with my exy, cause it's been a long time since my last mod (well, almost 4 weeks LOL)

I have finally acquired the awesome LED gauge faces and they were installed today.

Because it is the first time I come across something like this, I took it very easy with the installation, as I didn't want to stuff-up anything in the cluster.

The glow dial faces come as a set of 3 (obviously) here is how they look in the box



The set also comes with a brightness regulator and a switch (more on that later)

The installation involves fitting these dial faces over the existing dials WITHOUT the need to remove the needles (these are VERY sensitive indeed)

The centre of the dial faces have been made larger than the factory one to allow the faces to slide over the needles for a perfect fit.

Here are all 3 dial faces fitted in place



Each dial face has its own power wire and they all connect to the main regulator box

I had to use a dremel to make a small channel for the wires to ensure the plastic clear cover closed and snapped into place properly (this is not a problem at all)



Once that done, you can put the cluster back in place and run the wires all the way down to the fuse box.

The glow gauges will work using the same power source as the factory gauges, this means that I had to get this power from the steering stalk light switch (red&blue wire is the one to get the power from), the other wire is negative and it be grounded to any bolt going to the chassis.

Because the new dial faces are not see through, there is no need to disconnect the lighting going to the factory dials, as the orange/red light will still be used to illuminate the needles and the trip meter screen.

This is how the new dial faces look in daylight all fitted.



Note: The silver dials surround is not the factory look. This is my special LOL

This how the dials will look with the factory surround (the black one)



Now we come to the regulator switch

The set comes with brightness control AND (this is the fun part) a colour theme change switch

Not only you will have cool dial faces, but you will also have the ability to toggle between two colours of choice for the background (green and blue)

This is where I positioned the switch



2 small screws holding it in place.

Now we come to the showcase at night

Here is how the new dial faces look at night in blue





And with a flick of a button, the background colour changes to green

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ValBoo

Nice Job... Very cool Jalal !

I think I prefer the "cool blue" over the "green tint"

But now you will have to change the rest of your illumination to blue instead of orange

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