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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 05:53 AM
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If all goes according to plan I'll be driving a 350Z this August, and I know a LOT about the car already, (and plan to do most repairs myself) but one thing I could not find is if the 350Z has an interference engine or not.

I'll be getting a 350Z with between 60-80k miles and I know that's right about when the timing belt breaks. So basically if the timing belt breaks while driving it'll also break all 24 valves and cost like $4,000 to fix them + the timing belt?
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 05:59 AM
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Looks like you don't know enough about the car...we have timing chains not belts.

Search on google.com wiki 350z and click on the first search result...

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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 06:01 AM
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we have timing chains not belts

damn beat to it lol
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 10:50 AM
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Devil's advocate...we have belts not chains......replace your water pump at the same time....
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 03:17 PM
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Chain is good to 200k.

Also, yes.
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 05:48 PM
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Braggadocio=fail. I recognize I'm relatively ignorant regarding auto mechanics, so it co$t$ me! Thank God our beaZts are reliable!
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 06:00 PM
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yes its an interference engine. If you skip timing you will bend valves.
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 07:16 PM
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Is this thread for real?
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 06:36 AM
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I hope not
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Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
Is this thread for real?
Don't forget to cinch up your muffler belts and top off your blinker fluid before jumping into this thread.
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:02 AM
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You forgot the lubrication of the muffler ballbearings, Quad'!
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Don't forget the Blink fluid
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Most important be for you change the belts you must unmount the doors and the trunk and remove the right carpet on the driver side ..ops!! right be for you do all that.. take the radio out ..all the way in the back is the timing chain release button.carefully right be for you remove the radio make sure theres no CD in it...it might attack you ..Im batman

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....

wat
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Originally Posted by I DTW I
If all goes according to plan I'll be driving a 350Z this August, and I know a LOT about the car already, (and plan to do most repairs myself) but one thing I could not find is if the 350Z has an interference engine or not.

I'll be getting a 350Z with between 60-80k miles and I know that's right about when the timing belt breaks. So basically if the timing belt breaks while driving it'll also break all 24 valves and cost like $4,000 to fix them + the timing belt?
The amount of fail in this statement alone proves that wormholes exist.
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 08:50 AM
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I thought it was a pretty legit question, minus a few of the slight errors that someone un familiar with a particular motor might not know. As for bustin his ***** about a timing chain vs timing belt, holy Jesus it does the same thing, and you knew what he meant.
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Hmm this entire forum is full of children. Never have a seen a forum full of so much cancer.
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Old Jun 20, 2017 | 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ONTOPOFU
Hmm this entire forum is full of children. Never have a seen a forum full of so much cancer.
Yes, I'd agree that at times the signal to noise ratio can be pretty low.

However, your single post didn't help raise it any.

Instead of fixating and bishin' on an EIGHT YEAR OLD THREAD, post something constructive, substantive, and help raise the SN ratio.

Oh, and welcome. Aside from this, how were your other 19 days here?

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Old Jun 21, 2017 | 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by ONTOPOFU
Hmm this entire forum is full of children. Never have a seen a forum full of so much cancer.
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