My first Q45 Part out/Major learning experience

[Infinitiguy19]

Well If you all know or not I recently got a 1991 Q45 to play with. So far I agree with everyone in thinking these cars are the hardest to work on. I have the mental scars and physical scratches. But after cooling off and sleeping i feel better. During all this I never drank a beer or took an aspirin.

Just me and My 211 Piece Costco Tool kit.

here is the car Before:

What a beauty (If only the previous owners took car of her)

And after: Red stuff is my blood and I was bending back the metal covering the wiper motor.

That's the beautiful mismatched interior Black dash Brown and tan door panels and White seats.

That's the nearly empty door panel, I removed nearly everything except the locking mechanism.

The Back seat.

Whats left of the engine compartment I only missed the TCS Actuator, and maybe some A/C stuff and the wonderfully rusted horn.

The rear of the car yea the Junk yard owner smashed on of the lights I wanted. DAMN.

Side view of what left of the car.

Passengers side view of interior. O an 666-G50 I doubt that you would want those sun roof switches.

Has anyone just one person stripped a car to this extent?

Just one man, 3 Days (9AM-5PM), For 3 days straight. Not the best way to spend the week off, But....

It takes a lot of Nissan Master Technicians to put a Q45 together, But it takes someone who really likes Q45's to take on apart.
Modified by ppastos at 9:06 PM 10/11/2008

[goody90q45]

Whats left of the engine compartment I only missed the TCS Actuator, and maybe some A/C stuff and the wonderfully rusted horn.

Go back. You missed a connector. I don't suppose the ECU harness is useable?

Curious how you bought it and how it got from a home to a salvage yard. Where did you part it out? Salvage yard? The seat bottoms look nice in the pic. Not usable? I share your pain.

[oldmako]

Just curious what you did with all the bits?? You must have a hell of a storage facility!

[Infinitiguy19]

Well I bought the car from some woman and I brought it over to a friend that has a junk yard. I told him he could keep what left of the car and the Cats and he said fine. And I have about 6 boxes of stuff in the basement.

[Q451990]

Red stuff is my blood and I was bending back the metal covering the wiper motor.

Wow... I'll give you points for hardcore Q dismantling! So the engine was already gone?

Heath

[Infinitiguy19]

Well its out of the car, and I am taking it apart.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Nice work. I'd love to have a wrecker Q all to myself to horde parts from.



Man, that used to be a good looking Q. Belt buckles look AMAZING in black.

Whose Maxima is that?

[Infinitiguy19]

Wow great eye, that was the lady I bought the car from car.

I wished I could have a car to my self too. but once you see that your basement is full and you are in a lot of pain, its not so great.

[mattv2099]

Wow, this is inspirational.

Definately keep the VLSD (plus axles), 5 lug hubs, breaking system (calipers, master, etc) as this stuff you can sell to anyone with a 240sx looking to upgrade. Additionally seats are valuable to 240sx owners because stock 240sx seats are terrible and always upgraded to some other nissan seat.

And I say this is inspirational because I plan on picking up a '91 Q45 for 800$ that was rear ended. Going to use the engine, brakes, hubs, vlsd in my M30. And whatever other useful part I think will work.

Keep us updated with pictures!
Modified by mattv2099 at 11:09 AM 10/12/2008

[Q451990]

That was a nice looking Q...

What was wrong with it? Oh, and something was different about the "belt buckle" - what was it? Guess you smashed up the windshield taking out frustrations from getting that wiper motor out

Heath

[Infinitiguy19]

Well the guy I bought it off of said the water pump went and instead of having a professional do the job HE DID IT AND THAT'S WHY I GOT IT BECAUSE HE DID THE JOB and it took him 2 years to do the job and still eh didn't fix the water pump.

And no I took some frustration out but I can't take credit for the window being smashed the owner of the junk yard put the car on its side then put it upside down and with nothing securing the hood caused the windshield to smash.

And the belt buckle has some white plastic crap covering the vines inscribe in the metal.

[naladude911]

what was wrong with the car? nice work. are they going to crush the shell

[Infinitiguy19]

The guy thought the water pump was bad on it but who know I will crack open the engine to see if the guides are plastic or metal then I will know for sure.

Plastic guides = answer to your question

Metal guide = more money for me if mine don't need replacing or I save money if the do.

[dusred]

I did similar to a 97Q.

We ripped that thing down to it's shell and sold most of the parts. I still have the back seat and some door panels. One of these days I'm going to list them here in our Classifieds section .

[Haitian_King]

Wow.

That car was beautiful. Looks just like mine. Aren't black G50's just amazing after a rain?

[Cezar718]

are there any more parts left on the q? i wanted to buy the driveshaft from the transmission to the u bolt riht before the LSD. the rubber ripped while doing a transmission transplant....