Was going from clovis to Albuquerque, about a 3 and a half hour drive. Was driving it kinda hard but was still being kinda easy on it, car starts smoking and i pull over, my dad takes a look and theres oil leaking all over the drivers side underneath the car, he checked the dip stick and he said there was absolutely no oil left in the engine. We think its a head gasket that blew, that wasnt the case, we checked again to make sure it was empty and then we put in 1qt of oil at a time checking for leaks until we hit 5qts. We continued to Albuquerque while stopping every 20-30miles, before we got there we checked it again and it seemed like it lost a lil more oil so we did 1 more qt. Shoulda been 5qts maybe 6 at most. Drop it off at the place that was doing the work and asked them to check it over. Apparently the engine was 3qts over full, it was spewing out the dipstick and the oil filter cap when he checked it. He said right now my engine is completely ruined but he's not sure how bad. He said it could be some spun bearings or something, the camshafts could be fked, or the entire engine is just useless. The engine cant just be useless. When we stopped we let it cool down and refilled the oil and continued on with zero problems, no knocking, no more smoke, and the engine didnt seize. Hoping someone here has some answers

 

nobody will be able to diagnose it over the internet.... take it to nissan

 

Does not compute.

 

i wasnt flying down the road at 100+ reving it all the way up to redline. But i wast going the speed limit

 

Drain the oil fully, change the filter, hose down the engine bay, and refill the engine with the proper type an amount of oil. Proceed from there and see what you have. If you really had no (or nearly no) oil in the engine to start with, it's surely toast.

 

Hate to say it, but this may be another case of expensive lessons in life. While your precision-built VQ may not be "useless", it's likely suffered some extensive damage. The only way to be certain is for an experienced mechanic to do a teardown of the engine, which will be expensive. There's nothing anyone behind a keyboard can tell you to make that any different.

It's been said many times, VQ engines need clean oil and filters to operate efficiently. Too little or too much oil can damage a motor in short order. What did the oil level look like before you started your Clovis to Albuquerque run?

 

i had changed the oil the day before. Used 5qts of royal purple 5w-30

 

Nothing else we can tell you from here. Sorry.

 

How much oil did you drain out?

 

RP is sh*t oil

 

When i first did it it didnt drain all of it so i was running more oil than what i was supposed to so i had to redo it so it drained 6 maybe 7 qts

 

 

Like others have said, you're not gonna get much help on the internets. That engine is gonna need to get torn down and diagnosed.

 

That may be true, but that's not what caused the problems in this case. Even the sh!ttiest Walmart branded oil would have been fine for the trip, and there's something else being missed here. Maybe the oil level, wrong/clogged filter, cracked block, oil pump, etc., but we'll never know from here.

An '06 needing a new motor is on the verge of not being financially worth fixing.