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Man that sucks, care to share the details that caused it?
Since March I've been putting the G through serious work. Drove minimum 700km every week and like clock work I keep on top my maintenance. On that faithful day I did all the due maintenance, transmission, fuel and differential oil change, new spark plugs, complete bushing replacement of the entire car. Decided to take the car out for a spin, car drove beautifully then it randomly died at a stop sign, started right back up when i turned the key, pulled into the closest parking lot and pulled out my OBD2 scanner, code was for P0021. Turned around and started heading home a few blocks from home car died again except this time car smelt of burnt coolant. Came out and checked there was a trail of coolant leading to the place car died. Tried to crank the car it wouldn't start but the temp gauge spiked had the car towed to my driveway and after car cooled down it started right up, pulled oil cap and the milky fuel was underneath cap. Did an oil change and there was more than 4.7 Litres recovered, no coolant can be seen when the radiator cap was removed, the entire bottom end was covered in hot coolant
My 03 G35 is still in the driveway, engine is still solid. Already began tearing my 04 engine with the gasket failure apart, got down to the camshaft before I got halted by rusted bolts and snapped bolts in hard to reach corners. I can only work on it during the weekends while I'm not working but I still need a car for my daily. Anyway I was thinking of pulling the engine from the 03 and put it in the 04 but idk if the engines are ECU specific. And I might have some difficulties since I can't find a DIY and my damn driveway is not level, gotta think of a way to make this work
As I was doing my weekly top off of oil, I was thinking the car really just needs a new engine, preferably a V8.
Originally Posted by MacSpeedy
...Anyway I was thinking of pulling the engine from the 03 and put it in the 04 but idk if the engines are ECU specific. And I might have some difficulties since I can't find a DIY and my damn driveway is not level, gotta think of a way to make this work
Engines aren't ECU specific. Some of the sensors might be, so if something doesn't plug right in, swap it from the donor car.
As I was doing my weekly top off of oil, I was thinking the car really just needs a new engine, preferably a V8.
Engines aren't ECU specific. Some of the sensors might be, so if something doesn't plug right in, swap it from the donor car.
That won't be a cheap fix to throw a V8 in there. I already started tearing down the engine my whole.progress has been halted by two rounded bolts and a snapped bolt.
Current state of car
I installed a conspicuous back up camera (mounts where the license plate lights mount) and repaired the "trunk that won't open" because two previously good wires broke in the body to trunk connector.
Got the license plate off, had to remove the bumper and modify the license plate bracket for the new back up camera. G looks WEIRD without the bumper and lights as we know them.
Plan to finish wiring of the back up camera tomorrow, replace the broken starter, and find a way to secure the 4080 box. It should not be moving around! I'm thinking a string around the box in two places.
Replaced the driver side window motor. Should have been an easy fix, removed the door panel and found out the previous owner installed dynamat (cool) and MASTIC TAPE (omfg bad) to deaden sound and stop door panel rattle.
WHO THE F USES MASTIC TAPE LIKE THIS!?!?!
Had to stop 5 times during install to completely scrub my hands so I wouldn't transfer this black-gooey-bubblegum-looking-**** all over clean components...
When I use that stuff at work I have this heavy duty set of chemical resistant gloves I wear but you have zero dexterity, nitrile gloves are useless they just tear right off.
EDIT: I put new dynamat over the entire door and carefully cut out for the screw heads, access ports, etc. At least it's not an exposed gooey mess down there now.
Added this short light bar under the grill a couple weeks back. It works pretty well and lights up the road with nice white light. The beam is slightly shorter than the high beams but wider and white unlike the two yellow patches given off by the highs. Currently wired in to come on with the fogs. Also replaced windscreen wash motor. Not sure what caused it to fail and swell up but a replacement was easily sourced from a junkyard maxima.
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