G35 blown motor help
G35 blown motor help
I need some help my brother owns a g35 and he just recently blew his motor. He said that he was cruising then it started to lose power low oil caused it and seized the motor and its locked up. so we brought it to a nissan dealership and they say that the motor is done. They said they will replace it for a used one for 4g's. do u think u guys can give me some pricing or some suggestions other then paying 4g's for a used stock vq lemme no whats up need to get this car on the road.
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Poyzinous
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Re: G35 blown motor help (GeeZi)
? not much else you can do... The VQ is a sensitive engine to rebuild. It has to be done perfectly. Go for the used motor, as long as there is some kind of warranty
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Cpt_Impossible
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Re: G35 blown motor help (GeeZi)
What I thought about if mine ever blows is...
A used VQ35 is like $3k, a used titan V8 is like 1,700 and has about 90 more Tq iirc. If you can find a shop that will do it for you, why not get more torque for the same or less money? And you could then use regular fuel too if you kept it near stock.
Search http://www.car-part.com in your area for engines, there's plenty (10 titan engines in NY).
A used VQ35 is like $3k, a used titan V8 is like 1,700 and has about 90 more Tq iirc. If you can find a shop that will do it for you, why not get more torque for the same or less money? And you could then use regular fuel too if you kept it near stock.
Search http://www.car-part.com in your area for engines, there's plenty (10 titan engines in NY).
Re: G35 blown motor help (Cpt_Impossible)
Custom fabrication, wiring, etc is going to cost at least twice that much. You're probably looking at around $10k for a quality swap.
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Re: G35 blown motor help (JeromeS13)
Whats interesting to me is that this is becoming a common swap in the car show and formula D circuit, yet, no one seems to want to document it.
Everyone on the forums just speculates that it would be uber expensive with no understanding. It may be, it may not be... With Nissan using the same platform for a majority of its vehicles while utilizing a wide array of engines, one could reasonably assume that swapping engines should be a pretty straight-foward process compared to the old days. IIRC, most of the G's interior bits are on a separate computer, the wiring work is probably minimal.
If you have more than opinions that I'm wrong I would really love to hear it (totally serious, I'm interested in any potential problems one would run into).
From what little info I have found, it seems like the 56 can be bolted to the HR Z33 transmission's (the newer version not the 1st gen). The engine seems to fit just fine based on pictures.
Modified by Cpt_Impossible at 11:01 PM 10/1/2009
Everyone on the forums just speculates that it would be uber expensive with no understanding. It may be, it may not be... With Nissan using the same platform for a majority of its vehicles while utilizing a wide array of engines, one could reasonably assume that swapping engines should be a pretty straight-foward process compared to the old days. IIRC, most of the G's interior bits are on a separate computer, the wiring work is probably minimal.
If you have more than opinions that I'm wrong I would really love to hear it (totally serious, I'm interested in any potential problems one would run into).
From what little info I have found, it seems like the 56 can be bolted to the HR Z33 transmission's (the newer version not the 1st gen). The engine seems to fit just fine based on pictures.
Modified by Cpt_Impossible at 11:01 PM 10/1/2009