It's a CLK430 (275hp). And yes it's a great looking car, BUT it's kinda boring to drive. It doesn't have rack and pinion steering and it feels vague. The G35c is much more of a drivers car.
Anyway I've had the CLK for a year and half and it was just time for something new. I have NO regrets!!!

 

Some nice ex-rides here...but they are "ex" for a reason. Glad I made the step up also. Here's my most recent ex (M3)

soon to be G35C 6MT owner

 

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04 G35c DP/Willow, aero, prem, guards......

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Thanks for the awesome site Sasha.
I actually bought another 90 240Fastback, starting all over again... Maybe I can message you for some RB26DETT fitting info?

<font color=white>Pearl Ivory</font color=white> G35 Coupe 6MT Prem/SplashG/BSM, <font color=red>Injen CAI</font color=red>, <font color=red>Injen Super SES</font color=red>

 

I miss my old ride too...right up until it's time to smog that thing! Over 475 rwhp (supercharged 383), that would have me sideways in 2nd gear on a 40 mph roll!

Ivory Pearl/Premium/Xenon/

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Here's my old pride and joy (I was another Pontiac buff for quite a while). She had great American torque, but no top-end. Even though it did weird things no mechanic could figure out, I was gonna keep it, until I found out my insurance would double w/ both cars (am I the only one who thinks insurance companies make no sense sometimes?).

2004 6MT (Silver/Willow), premium & aero packages

My old ride (I still miss her; put a lot of pride and joy into it): http://www.n-body.net/registry/john95ga/

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By the way, there was a car to go along with that motor...

Ivory Pearl/Premium/Xenon/

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A side shot...

2004 6MT (Silver/Willow), premium & aero packages

My old ride (I still miss her; put a lot of pride and joy into it): http://www.n-body.net/registry/john95ga/

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CB 5AT - SAC, CA

 

This was my pride and joy before my G



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Here's mine when she was brand new. But it's only been a week since I let her go, so I still Miss "her" . I've only had the "G" for a week, and had a little bit of "regret" at the beginning. But I"m getting over it now .




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Sweet car...that was the special rear-end treatment slp offered a little later on for the ss, right? Did you special order?

 

Yes, I ordered it with the CME(center mount exhaust), SS grill, and the "bilstein" package which included eibach springs, bilstein shocks. The only other option I wish I would have ordered was the auburn differential.

 

Wow...nice ss. It couldn't have been that old...why did you sell it so soon? I kept my ls1 f-bod longer than any of the other cars I've had...although I plan to keep the g even longer!

 

Thanks. for the compliment. Yes, she was beautiful. I got rid of it so soon becuase it was a daily driver, and I wanted something quiet, better on gas(not that the g is economical), and better build quality. The "quirks" got to me after a while ...slop in the driveshaft, noisy #@$2 rear end, leaking pinion seal, pinging at high temps(probably more of the fact that CA has crappy gas combined with such a high compression engine). But the last straw was when I had a collapsing lifter, and the dealer gave me crap about it, saying the noise was "typical ls1 valvetrain noise"..I do know a little about cars, so it was either a bad lifter or pushrod. Don't get me wrong, the car was reliable(I did drive her hard with quite a few passes at the local drags). One of these days I'll buy an LS1 again.....but this time as a second car........that car pulled hard! And that's the only thing I'll miss about it.