1. Who fed you that line of BS?
2. How could you ever believe that?

 

Marketing is pretty much lies, they embellish minor points to make something seem appealing. Marketing say whatever is necessary to make people part with their money. Also the G35 is no longer considered luxury by any standard.
Plus now there are many hybrid, electric or turbo-diesel luxury cars with great gas milage. There are several 300hp+ luxury cars out now that get 30mpg or better. New porsche 911 has double the power of the G35 and better mpg. Even the new mustang is more luxiorious than the G35, more features, more power, and better mpg.

 

Young execs do not buy a 10 year old out-dated car driven by high schoolers. Enjoy the G for what it is, but done pretend it is something it isn't.

 

Do you have a specific cut off for living in the past? The 1966 Jeep Super Wagoneer was first ever luxury 4x4. Had never before seen luxurious featurs like push-button radio, seven-position tilt steering wheel, ceiling courtesy lights, air conditioning, power brakes, and power steering.


Sadly my time machine is broken or your marketing BS might actually have mattered. The year is currently 2014 and those of us living in the present dont use decade old marketing ploys to dictate views of current cars. Just not sure why you wanted me to list luxury cars with good mpgs (of which there are now many) when the G35 is neither luxury or has decent mpg.

 

soooo.. can we talk about Joker's oil consumption?

Joker.. personally i would hit up bobistheoil guy forums and ask for suggestions...
personally, i would just live with 1 quarter every 3k miles.. adding a $8 bottle of oil is a lot cheaper and less headache than a swap..

 

From that conversion, he used a complete standalone to power the motor and there's no pics of the gauges. He also stripped the interior and is running a roll cage. Looks like it's a track only car.

That's a lot different than doing a street legal daily like what Joker would have to do.

 

BTW. On my old 03 non revup, it drank 1qt per every 3-4k oil change. Car ran fine, didn't foul the plugs etc... There might have been a touch of blue smoke in the mornings. I concluded it wasn't the rings but probably the valve stem seals hardened and were leaking a bit oil past the valve stems and into the combustion chamber.

 

I would switch to 10w-30 or 10w-40 and see how the oil consumption goes. To those that don't believe the "G" is a luxury car. It is, just because it's 10 years young doesn't mean it's not a luxury car. There are a lot of luxury cars that weigh more than the "G". As far as gas mileage goes, the "G" does pretty well considering it's weight, it also has a 20 gallon tank. Further more, you can't compare a "G" to a porsche. They are in two different classes. It continues to blow my mind that so many people on this site put the "G" down. I know my 2005 "G" coupe isn't light on its feet but, it wasn't designed to be a race car. It's designed to be a Grand Tourer and does that beautifully. Also, I love looking at my "G" and I've had the opportunity to experience almost every car in the U.S.. Ferrari, Bentley Flying Spur, Maserati, BMW's, Mercedes, Porsche, Lamborghini, Jaguar, Corvettes.

While I've enjoyed time in all those brands I'm not ashamed of my "G", although I'm going to purchase a Maserati Quattroporte, after I Pay off my "G" and yes I'm keeping my "G". I have a few more mods to get it where I want it to be but, my journey with my "G" is a beautiful one. I look forward to owning it FOR EVER.

 

I'm just researching for the future in case it gets worse.
1 qt every 3k is not bad and I'm willing to live with it, but if power and fuel consumption starts to suffer I'll have to consider a fix. So I'd like to have some options laid out before that time comes.

I doubt I'll ever do a V8 swap. Maybe a new bottom end or diff VQ platform.

 

Yeah, can a mod delete all that off topic junk? This has potential to be an informative thread.

I'm curious about what causes OC. I have an 06 revup and it's maybe 1/2 qt low around the 3k mark. I top it off and change around 5k. Using 5w-30 Castrol GTX conventional. Currently have 156k on the odo.

FWIW, I personally know more people with 04 oil burners than people with revups burning oil. So it's not "just" revups that had an issue.

 

the whole situation really sucks.

 

Yeah, I feel like that's most likely due to people driving them hard and misusing them or not treating them right tho (the 04 oil burners). The revup oil problem was the factorys fault. My 04 burns maybe 1/4 - 1/2qt in 4000 miles and i got 125k on the clock. The guy who owned it before me took really good care of it tho.

PS, ill delete my posts (off topic stuff), and maybe whosur will delete his.

 

Um do you know exactly what is causing the oil consumption? I new bottom end with the same heads, might still net you an oil eater.

 

I believe the cause according to Nissan is the piston rings. That is why Nissan was only changing the bottom end.