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Got my alternator replaced, added a double din with navigation, bluetooth, and rear view camera. Also, this random 350z nismo parked next to me. #vqlove
Got my alternator replaced, added a double din with navigation, bluetooth, and rear view camera. Also, this random 350z nismo parked next to me. #vqlove Attachment 258919 Attachment 258918
Metra nooooooo.
But if you're happy with it what the hell do I know lol.
So 5 months ago my car was totaled. i blew s head gasket w/o realizing it and i ended up with rodknock. I was looking for engines on ebay and the only engine that would work for under $1k was an awd vq35de. i have a rwd sedan g35 so i figured why not. when i got it, i realized the entire bottom half was different so we swapped around the mid and lower oil pan off of my old engine and now it works fine. i did have to get a new transmission dipstick and modify the wiring harness but other than that it worked out pretty well👌🏽
Removed the front passenger seat to fix a faulty switch then re-installed it. Took a couple of weeks due to life getting in the way but put it back in today. Details here if anyone is interested. https://g35driver.com/forums/g-spot/...-new-post.html
Installed my custom made lower, 5/16 motordyne spacer and a homemade catch can. Ahh the sweet sound of that exhaust when it continues to pull now! Sorry no pics, moved right on to my daughter's soon to be first car (my old work ride - 1984 Mercedes 300 cdt) and replacing the front calipers, pads, hoses and master cylinder. Oddly the G was less trouble to wrench.
Curious what your custom made lower had done to it. And yes, the G is mostly a surprisingly easy vehicle to wrench on. I couldn't have done a lot of the work on my car I've done if it wasn't.
Bluedream, I basically made my own mrev2. I purchased the original Rev intake with spacer on ebay for $35 shipped. I was hoping it would be an mrev2, but it wasn't. So I slightly shaved the two front ports, honed the belly edges, rolled the port tops. Then just streamlined things as I would see airflow traveling. Putting my forgotten airframe and powerplant training from the 90's to use. It took a little bit of time because I used the tiny detail files to shape a lot of it. Maybe just my generation, but I'm not one for taking pictures of everything that happens in my life; then I wouldn't be able to tell a good story!
So borrowed this photo off the site. This shows areas where mill worked to reduce restrictions. I also cleaned up the lower port hole edges that had fine machine overhang not shown on the bottom side. Hand filing the recirculatory cut on the rear passenger port was crampingly fun. lol
I did something similar, but without the airframe experience, and with the youthfulness to remember to snap a few pics before bolting everything up haha. I didn't have machine access to I used a large file and whatever sandpaper I had laying around to shape everything. I want to say it took ~10 hours over a week or so, sitting in front of the TV sanding my fingers raw. GF was not a fan.
The place I was working at the time did have media cabinets, so the last pic is my bead blasted upper plenum.
Same with the large file. The riffler files just made it easier to get into tight spaces. Large file used for the bigger removal. I left the surface rough on the top side and in the belly centers, this helps to create turbulence to give volume in the chamber. Next mod will be exhaust and then to have it tuned. That's probably as far as I'll go with this for now. Way too many projects around here, daughter's car, my shorty dodge boogie van, Baja bug, land cruiser, triumph bobber, last but not least 69 ford cabover fire truck with 534 super duty y block that will be shortened, lowered and flatbed'd to hold a removable tank/hidden camper.
Same with the large file. The riffler files just made it easier to get into tight spaces. Large file used for the bigger removal. I left the surface rough on the top side and in the belly centers, this helps to create turbulence to give volume in the chamber. Next mod will be exhaust and then to have it tuned. That's probably as far as I'll go with this for now. Way too many projects around here, daughter's car, my shorty dodge boogie van, Baja bug, land cruiser, triumph bobber, last but not least 69 ford cabover fire truck with 534 super duty y block that will be shortened, lowered and flatbed'd to hold a removable tank/hidden camper.
I read similar stuff about adhesion layers and turbulence and whatnot, but once I got started I really wanted to get rid of the lettering cast into the belly, so I figured I could just rough it up with low grit sandpaper when I was done and it'd be close enough. My butt dyno definitely noticed the difference, but I installed the spacer and DIYMREV at the same time, so who knows. Either way, it's a fun little project.
I was also planning on getting a tune soon, but a Z1 master cylinder brace popped up on the marketplace, so I had to buy that. Then when I was doing my plugs last weekend, I noticed the crankcase ventilation tube that connects to the bottom of the intake was cracked, so I ordered a new one from Z1.... and went ahead and bought their rigid collar kit at the same time, since I was paying for shipping anyways! Can't wait to get those installed, but it set the tune and some brake upgrades back a couple months as I let my car budget replenish c: Same old story it seems haha
