I went to start 'er up yesterday and decided to look underneath (was fixing some minor leaks earlier) and she's making it rain from down under all over the exhaust. At first, i thought it was simple condensation leaking out of the exhaust, but it wasn't stopping. Looks like the little bastard of a hose in the picture below (the assembly is flipped - the small hose next to the sensor) that sits behind the intake, decided to develop a hole in it and was leaking profusely. Had to make some runs to AZ to pick up some replacement hose and clamps.

Whoever designed this coolant system (with like 10 lines coming off throttle bodies and running above the exhaust) was smoking some good stuff. Also replaced the small line from above the driver side exhaust manifold that attaches to the nipple on the metal pipe, as it was getting a little too soft.

I guess, at 262k on the clock, it's inevitable, but c'mon, Nissan... I'm not even going to mention using plastic connectors on both sides of the heater core inlets/outlets... So yeah, please go out there and give those hoses some tuggin' so you won't overcook your VQs with the weather warming up out there.

 

I put a couple of the Z1 bleeders on mine when I replaced many of the hoses back in 2020

https://g35driver.com/forums/v36-eng...ml#post7197433

 

Yeah, that plastic bleeder and the other plastic piece on the pass side are works of engineering art...

 

update on what?