Recent content by JaxxaLuca

Hello Overland Bound! It's been a while. I haven't been able to put aside much time to do camping or overlanding since I last posted, but I just got back from attending the Florida Gambler 500 Rally, and this was the first event I participated in that really combined camping and off-roading in a...

Oh, and the only thing about Silver's is that they are more of a racing coilover company, so the largest shock/coilover they make only has 6" of travel, which will only translate to about 6-8" of travel at the wheel depending on your suspension geometry. I've been bouncing around the idea of...

There's somebody on the Juke Forums who found a manual trans with a transfer case that should fit the Juke engine. With mods, people are saying ~230 whp through the CVT is about the safe limit, but the engine can put out 300+ hp through a stock manual transmission. They never shipped a Juke with...

Washington is like a 3000 mile trip from me, lol. I'm sure there are a couple people on this forum who would do double that, but I'm not up for that yet. I would love to plan a west coast trip at some point though. Maybe meet in Oregon one year for a Gambler 500? That's a bucket list for me for...

I love coming back every now and then and checking in on your Mitsubishi. I love how we've both been going pretty equally insane with our setups, though I am jealous of the amount of pure overland swag you have on your SUV! I'm sure if I had a welder and a garage to work in, I'd be right there...

All of the above! hopefully... eventually. I already have a fabricator on board to help me with a swing-out tire carrier, but we're still in the mockup stages. I'm also working on learning some plastic fabrication techniques to modify some fender flares and create a custom side skirt, so...

The Jeep rims I'm running are 18's. 16's would be great on it, but I haven't come across a design for a 16 that I've liked yet. I'm really picky with wheels. Especially now, used Jukes are getting pretty cheap. It's small, light, and fast, so it would make a great weekend vehicle for sure

My 2012 AWD Nissan Juke. I got it because it was funky and unique, but looked like it could be a platform comparable to most AWD Subarus. It has almost zero aftermarket for offroad modifications, so I've been trying to develop it and try and push it as far as it will go. I feel like a lot of car...

With axles like those, I don't stand a chance! I'm thinking with the right shock and spring setup I could max out at 10" of travel, but I would need like 3 or four inches of body lift to accomplish that. Right now I have about 6.5" of travel which is pitiful, but Florida is pretty flat, so I...

Hello Overland Bound! It's been quite a while since I've been on. The Juke CVT handled my first set of tires extremely well, so I decided to push it further to utilize the maximum amount of space my wheel wells have to offer. I went from a 1.5" spacer lift to a 2.5" custom coilover lift from...

And those are with the 40mm spacers? The pic of it up on the jacks looked so promising. Even with the axle touching it looks like the bolt holes on the strut were still a half inch off, so you might have to shave off about 10mm of that spacer. You could also rent strut spring compressors or find...

huh, maybe there is such a thing as too much lift :wink: Is it because the differential is off center? or is the frame just different on that side? I suppose you could grind back a bit at the top where the control arm meets up, but that still won't leave a lot of room for it to travel, I guess...

This is not my rig, but son of a b-, somebody out there beat me to it! New body VW bug on a Can AM chassis! This is EXACTLY what I had in mind in one of my earlier posts, but if I had my way, I would make it hard top convertible and keep the fender flares on.

The spoiler is a factory option, and I had just taken it off and painted it myself. The accent pieces for the 2015+ jukes are called "color studio" options, but the color selection is limited and you'd be paying hundreds of dollars on some colored plastic, so a DIY route I would definitely...

OK, so last weekend I wasn't in the mood to drive out to the forests, so I settled for downtown and had a lot of fun and got to get a few clips of the Juke in action!