So over memorial day weekend I traded my brother cars (my G35 for his 08 Tacoma 6MT V6 4x4 TRD Off-Road Package) because I was going to death valley with a couple friends and we wanted to hit a bunch of places that required 4wd and off-road capabilities.

Anyway, so memorial day Monday was my birthday, and when I got home I found out my brother missed a shift. He wound out 3rd, and hit 2nd instead of 4th and blew my oil pump, but kept driving and shredded my motor's internals. So yeah, I found out on my birthday that my brother blew my motor.

So while looking at my options I found a built, blue printed and balanced motor with factory internals, ACL race bearings, ported and polished heads, installed for just a little more than the dealer wanted for a used motor, so I'm going that route.

Kind of excited to see how different it will feel over the old motor.

I'm in for an interview for a paid internship and if I get the job I'm going to have them throw in headers and a plenum spacer when they swap the new motor in.

So that's the story of why I needed a new motor...

 

You're bro payin' for any of it?

 

He better...

 

sorry to hear bro! hope your G gets fixed and back on the road!! =D

 

I would take a factory engine over a rebuilt one with factory internals ANY day of the week. Once it has been opened up and messed with the reliability drops considerably not worth it for absolutely no performance gain what so ever.

Not only that if it was rebuilt with factory internals that means OEM pistons were used, the problem with this is they have to hone the cylinders in order to get the rings to seat so the pistons will be looser in the bore than OEM. The correct way to rebuild an engine is actually to over bore it and use larger pistons so they have already cut corners. Did the guy installing and checking bearing clearances cut some corners as well?

 

Does Nissan not offer larger pistons (over bored) and bearings for rebuild like other manufactures?

 

ls2!!!

 

I don't know if Nissan makes over size pistons or not tons of aftermarket companies do. However since he didn't mention it, I would assume factory internals means the same ones it came from the factory with so that would not be 96mm pistons.

 

What type of warranty is on that engine?

 

1 year warranty...it's Stillen. I'm fairly sure they know what they are doing...

 

yeah don't listen to these guys.

 

Says the newb who just joined with 8 posts.

But yeah. Definitely don't bother listening to what Sylvan Lake has to say.. he's only been here a number of years, has a few thousand posts, and runs a beast of a g35.

 

WTF is this? You putting words in my mouth? I never said I was listening to either of them.

Slyvan Lake might have a point but he does not know all the details so honestly all he's doing is speculating.

This is all being done at Stillen and they've been nothing but good to me and I think their reputation speaks for itself.

 

That post was for xKRoC. That is all.

 

PICS of the process and please give us a break down on cost for materials and labor.

thanks