For those who have read all of Q45tech's posts, you will remember his assertion of over a decade ago that 500cc was the ideal cylinder size:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/why-0-5-li ... d&click=yr

You gave me a scare !
When you wrote "In honor of" I thought this was going to be a RIP thread..

PalmerWMD wrote:You gave me a scare !
When you wrote "In honor of" I thought this was going to be a RIP thread..

I thought the same thing!

Just honoring his intellectual acuity and what he brought to the best automotive forum when he and so many other gifted owners like you both that were a part of this Forum in the beginning, and of course the old Yahoo one.

Everyone from then taught me a lot including the fact I had some pretty ineffective assumptions about vehicle maintenance.

He's a great guy.

A couple years ago I barely missed meeting him in person when I was traveling thru Atlanta

Good to see you Maxnix hope all is well?

Atlanta GA?

94Q45Beast wrote:Atlanta GA?

Yep. Dennis (aka Q45Tech) was a guy who bought his 1990 Q new. He actually saw the cars being produced in Japan while there on a business trip. Drove it for about 100K with minimal maintenance, and then realized that it didn't drive the way it used to. Being an engineer by trade, he started researching car maintenance and the Q in particular, and started a rehab process. He was an absolute stickler about annual fluid changes - all the way down to refrigerant oil in the a/c compressor. He even claimed to replace all of the light bulbs in the car (including the little ones in the instrument cluster) on a regular schedule as preventative maintenance. He became friends with the owner of T3 automotive in ATL, and was sort of the unofficial "shop guru" for all things Q. Members here would drive 1000+ miles to have chain guides and other maintenance done there - so he was a great internet marketing tool for T3. He was a frequent poster here until a few years ago, when he dropped out of the scene. The last I heard he had become bored with the Q, or at least talking about it here, and was trying to turbo a late 1990s G20.

If you really want to learn about the Q, set aside a month and user name search "Q45Tech" and just start reading...

I wana meet the guy

I met him quite a few times in person but since he has been out of the scene he was harder to get a hold of.
Still lives in Atlanta

94Q45Beast wrote:I wana meet the guy

All you have to do is read his posts. I highly recommend Tangalora also for her pure form.

Dennis posted assuming the reader knew the FSM by heart. A lot of his early posts are in General Chat since Infiniti General was folded into that miasma.

I had many of his posts in a very long Word document. If I can't find it, Peter Pastos had a copy.

yeah I'll definitely research his posts. thanks

I think that's the plan for the 3.0L V6 that Nissan will source from MB.