We recently got to take a look at this Nissan Hardbody built by Stan Oshiro in Honolulu and were very impressed. We will let Stan tell you his story and how the Nissan developed:

I originally purchased this 1995 Nissan SE-V6 Kingcab 4WD used in December of 2002.  The truck was originally purchased as my daily driver to my drag-ready Toyota Supra Turbo. I had the itch to take the truck out and actually utilize the 4WD that I purchased instead of having a mall-crawler or pavement pounder like those soccer mom's buying out the SUV market. I met up with many very-friendly off-roaders who owned Toyotas. I thought to myself, the off-road community is very close-knit and there is no competitiveness here, and this is coming from guys who own lifted Toyotas watching me drive up to the shop in my Nissan.  This wouldn't happen in the import racing world.  It's a dog-eat-dog sort or reality tv show. Shops that specialize in Hondas wouldn't service me equally to the "dime-a-dozen" groupies.  Too much competitiveness and animosity, and the fact that everyone hates import racers for illegally racing on freeways and injuring and killing others made me sell the Supra.  I decided to work on the truck as my "project toy."

First modifications was an alarm, which I installed myself and installing power windows and power door locks.  I decided to put the Clifford Avantguard 5 in the truck, the flagship alarm from Clifford.  Since I like to volunteer with the American Red Cross, I opted to purchase the Pioneer AVIC-N1 mobile navigation entertainment system. Allows me to get to people's houses without reading a map, all using GPS.

So I took my truck out with a bunch of fellow off-roaders who owned lifted trucks.  I was the only stock truck out there taking a beating, but no one teased me, they all helped out(since I would usually get stuck).

I got the itch to get a lift!  Big and wide-ass tires are the popular thing here in Hawaii.  If you're tires aint sticking 6" out of the fenders, you got bicycle tires!  6 months later, after saving up some cash and selling all of my parts from my project Supra, I got a 4" TrailMaster suspension lift kit, along with Rancho RS9000X shocks to go all around(and we can't forget the Remote In Cab controller for the shocks), and a set of 3" SuperLift upper A-Arms with rear Rancho Add-A-Leaf.  Anyone can pay a shop to do the modifications, that's no fun.  I prefer to do everything myself, instead of having a shop do all the work.  You get to take pride in your work, learn a few things, and do repairs if anything goes wrong.  This gave me a total of 7" of suspension lift, enough to fit the 33x14 Boggers under my fenders.  The tires stuck out by 8," that's the Hawaiian-style 4x4.  
 

Several months later came the Performance Accessories 3" Bodylift.
 
The 14" wide tires abused the IFS steering like the man wearing a wife-beater in the Cops show beating on his wife!  I had to do a steering upgrade, so I elected to purchase Calmini's D21 steering upgrade system.  This steering supposedly is bulletproof and will withstand all the beating you could ever give it.

After I got the steering upgrade installed, I needed to go get my truck dirty.  We went out to a place called "The Revenge" where this hill is notorious for breaking people's axles and steering parts.  The Calmini idler arm bracket got bent

 I needed some coverage of my tires to stay legal here in Hawaii.  I didn't want to just slap on a set of Bushwacker Cut-Out flares.  I wanted something unique, out of the ordinary.  I had my eyes on the Hanneman Fiberglass parts that gave a 4" bulge for both front and rear fenders.  Fiberglass parts are a pain to work with.  I only worked with fiberglass briefly, but knew how to do bodywork as well.  So I thought I would give the fiberglass parts a shot.  Here is where the term "Do It Yourself" comes in.  No instructions sheet, no hints and tips from anyone else.  Just you, your tools, time, and a lot of blood/sweat/tears/cussing were put into this project.  My truck was unusable for 2 weeks and my air compressor drove the neighbors nuts.  It took me over 120 hours total on fitting and preparing the fiberglass stuff onto my truck.  Luckily I have a lot of vacation time to work on the truck, as I was learning so many new things while installing the fiberglass parts. 

Future plans include, but not limited to:   Installing my MileMarker 12,000lb winch which is taking up space in my office at work.  Lockright locker for the rear axle, ARB locker for the front.  JWT PopCharger and ECU upgrade sitting on my living room floor. 

Complete List of modifications:

 

Front Suspension:

1.  4" Trailmaster Suspension Lift

2.  3" Superlift Upper Control Arms

3.  Energy Suspension Polyurethane bushing replacements

4.  Rancho RS9000X Shock Absorbers

 

Rear Suspension:

1.  Trailmaster Lift Blocks

2.  Rancho Add A Leaf

3.  Rancho RS9000X Shock Absorbers

 

Engine:

1.  Stock VG30E Engine

2.  MSD-6 Off Road Ignition

3.  MSD Hi Vibration Coil

 

Body:

1.  3" Performance Accessories Body Lift

2.  Hanneman Fiberglass Front Fenders with 4" bulge

3.  Hanneman Fiberglass Rear Bedsides with 4" bulge

 

Wheel/Tire:

1.  33x15.50 Super Swamper TSL/SX tires

2.  15x14 Weld Scorpio rims

 

Interior:

1.  Clifford Avantguard 5 alarm system with remote windows and remote start

2.  Pioneer AVIC-N1 Mobile Navigation System

3.  Pioneer DEQ-9200 Equalizer

4.  Rockford Fosgate 4.6 4x25Watt Amplifier

5.  Orion C6.2 6.5" Component Speaker set

6.  Pioneer TS-A630P 6.5" 3-way Speakers

7.  Cascade Audio Sound Dampening sheets

8.  Rancho Dual Action Remote Control System

 

Other:

1.  Calmini D21 Steering Upgrade

2.  Optima Blue Top Battery

3.  Smittybilt Tube Bumper Front/Rear

4.  Smittybilt Nerf Bars

5.  One-piece driveshaft