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Old Oct 16, 2022 | 01:19 PM
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2008 G35x just bought as project needs all of the work
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So I'm brand new to Infiniti and to the G35 I bought this car in a hurried situation as a project but now I'm unsure if it is able to be fixed. The motor is great but not sure if I can replace these parts or how I would go about doing so. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I was also thinking about just pulling the motor and putting it into a new body but would like to fix it possible. I feel like I may have made a bad purchase but it was only $3,000 with 130,000 miles on it. Please let me know if I do have options....
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Old Oct 16, 2022 | 06:56 PM
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That thing is squished pretty bad, unless you're good at bodywork you're probably never going to get it to line up properly on the front end. Being that squished back means it needs to be pulled forward again or there's just no room for panels to fit against each other.

That car is basically salvage at this point, if you do want to fix it you're going to need to find another donor car at a pick-n-pull salvage yard and cut those unibody frame pieces off a straight front end then weld them onto the one you have. Probably 100-120 hours of labor involved in fixing the car at this point. I don't think you necessarily got ripped off because there's easily $3k worth of value in what's left but I don't think that thing is going to be a driver ever again. It took a BIG frontal collision to get that far into the chassis.

If you can find a clean chassis with a blown engine/transmission for a good price it's definitely going to be easier to just swap motors.
 
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Old Oct 16, 2022 | 10:30 PM
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So the front crash bar and everything is still perfectly intact but the upper radiator supports and the radiator support itself is broken of course I asked the guy if it was drive able and he said it was his daily driver and I drove it from Denver to Colorado Springs with out any pulling or issues which is about 90 miles so I have some hope but those upper supports are thrashed so I was hoping that it wouldn't be terrible to rebuild but also thought about just pulling the motor doing a complete build on it then finding a donor car to drop it into because when I drove it the motor was definitely strong but not sure. I bought.it as a complete project but I'm not sure where I can find a good donor with a blown motor in Colorado I've been looking but no luck yet. It almost looks like he went under something like a big truck rather than into something. I'm rather embarrassed that I even bought it without the full inspection I'm surprised it made it all the way home the bumper cover was held on by only fasteners and the the hood latch failed and the hood blew up going 80 on the highway so I pulled over and happen to find a old fan belt and cut it and managed to tie it down and made it home but yeah I feel ridiculous about it but I guess I got blinded by just how much I always wanted this car and so I should've known it was too good to be true but I will at least pull and rebuild the moto Any ideas where I could find a new chassis if I can't fix it.
 

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