Well, shoot. Wish I'd hopped online this weekend, Hitman.
I am now the proud owner of an '03 G35 sedan. Ivory / willow. Six speed. All the premium goodies (no satellite radio or nav, though). Going back later this week and they're going to put on the spoiler and paint the black lower body trim to match the body colour (my consolation prize since I couldn't afford the full aero bodykit added on...oh well).
I almost don't want to know what kind of a deal you could have swung me, Hitman. I've had the car 48 hours now...I don't want buyer's remorse to set in JUST quite yet.
Sewell treated me very well, and I must say that I have a whole heckuva lot more car right now for a monthly payment not too different than what I was putting into the VW...
*sheepish grin*I've already put almost 200 miles on the thing. MAN, this is an incredible car...
So long as I'm putting out a novel tonight...a few questions. If I need to repost these as a new thread, just let me know.
-- First things first...I picked up a K&N panel filter. The stock air intake system on this engine looks WORLDS better than the one on my Beetle...good and straight, right from the front of the hood back to the throttle. I like it. VW put such a complicated maze into theirs...but I digress. K&N panel was always kind of a "dark horse" in the VW world, because a lot of late-model engines would have the MAFS fail, sending the engine into limp mode. Some people found that if they cleaned their sensor with alcohol, it would work again for a while, so the jump was made that the oil in K&N filters was becoming airborne and gumming up on the MAFS wires. This was always pretty much speculation, as people with the stock paper filter would have MAFS go out, and others seemed to run K&N for miles and miles with no problems. I had a K&N cone and had no problems. THE QUESTION (finally...)...has this issue reared it's head in the NICO world? Or are we all good to go with the K&N panel?
-- Question 2, stemming off of the paragraph above...how good is the stock intake, really? Any real performance gain from aftermarket ducting / CAIs?
Oh yeah, I pulled the engine cover. Mmm, thick heavy black plastic. Is there anything that holds unwanted engine heat up against the intake manifold more efficiently? VW did this, too. I used to have a small coolant-level and temperature graemlin in the Beetle. It went away once I took out the engine cover and rear engine bay seal.
Sorry in advance if this is all usual newbie drivel. I haven't had time to really do much searching and reading on here yet; not as much as I'd like to anyway. Humour me.