Bought a wrecked coupe that I am trying to return to its former glory!!!

 

Welcome to the family and good luck with your restoration.

 

Welcome to the G community. How does this G look?

 

Welcome to the G forum...

 

What does it take to be able to start a thread

 

I added a pic in my garage.

It was hit hard in the back. Needed some substructure straightening, rear bumper, tail lights, trunk, work on both quarters, all 4 wheels bent, 2 bent hubs, lower control arm, and a tire so far. It is still on jack stands and I hope to get it finished soon. I would like to be able to start a thread for it but it won't let me. I would also like post for some more parts that j still need.

Chad

 

Hi Chad, Welcome to DRIVER! You have yourself quite a project, the left side quarter doesn't look bad....hope the right side looks a good! Looks like you need to find a Nissan/Infiniti bone yard with some front end crashed G coupes for parts. Knowing our members from TX they'll help all they can....Gary

 

Houston's a great place, big G scene out there. Good luck with the restoration

 

picknpull.com
put your zip code, Infiniti G35 in the search field,
it will search thier inventory, I know the Dallas Big Al's Pick n Pull has a 2005 G35 out here don't know the shape or color or what's left of it, but it's a start
welcome to the forum!! I can get you OEM parts if you need anything hit me up
~Phil~

 

Nice to have you here I am also from TX. Always good to have more Texans!

 

I purchased the car 12/26 for my wife to drive and have been steadily working on it since.

Work done so far:

Pull out Substructure
rework quarterpanels
replace trunklid (craigslist)
purchase old style spoiler (ebay) (Sorry guys I had to drill holes in the trunk to mount it)
replace drivers tail light (dallas parts finder)
replace passenger tail light (ebay)
replace rear bumper assembly (Houston Junk yard)
replace exhaust with factory (craigslist near new)
Paint back half of car
dismantle passenge seat and straighten sub structure
have all 4 wheels straightened (only 3 repairable) The Front wheels are hard to find
Replace front wheel bearing passenger
Purchase 2 tpms sensors (ebay)
order tire to match the Michelin in front that is like new
Purchase set of weels off craigslist 2 straight and decent condition 1 repairable 1 toast
remove fuel door lock (discovered that little treat tonight when I tried to put some fuel in it)


Still outstanding (that I know of):
fix or replace gas door lock
replace rear lower control arm (bent)
refinish straightened wheels
fix drivers seat uphulstery
alignment
re-sync the tpms sensors
replace the engine bay cover underneath car

Parts I still need:

engine cover under car
gas door lock
trunk plastic piece that covers the left side of the trunk floor (large piece that is form fitted to the left side of the spare tire)
I also think I am missing several tools that go in the foam on the right side of the spare tier)
A boat load of plastic fasteners (someone went around the car and took every little plastic rivet or fastener that they could remove)



At least the completed list is shorter than the outstanding list.

 

good luck man. hope you can bring it back to life.

 

Here is how she currently looks.

Oh yeah, my trunk button in the tail light also doesn't work add that to my todo list.

 

Are there differences in the exhaust on these? My damaged stock setup was much louder than the one I installed. My car is an 06, the exhaust I put on is off an 05.

 

Nice recovery Chad, you'd never know this was the same car! Hope your wife enjoys the ride....Gary