Geeze.. sorry about your luck.. Wow curious how did you blow your motor.. how do you normally drive.. what are your nubmers... do you have an engine management system?? If not the aps kit already comes tuned out of the box????

 

I believe he answered all these questions in this thread.

 

Sorry to hear about the run of bad luck Jimmy. Don't get too down, I'm sure your luck will turn for the better.

Best wishes.

 

thats funny cause right after it blew when i was stranded for 6 hours i checked the oil and it looked good .. It was at a nissan dealership for the past week and half trying to get a diagnosed but i doubt they took oil out they didnt even do anything they just wanted to sell me a new engine? *shrugs* maybe my dip stick was reading incorrectly.. i dont know

 

350z is not good for force induction

 

Ummm, he's driving a G35 and have you not seen all the blown G's and Z's already?

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Wow, you finally decided come out of the closet you've been hiding in for the past 2 years. You have a lot of catching up to do. There's few guys running 500whp on stock blocks and a numerous others that are running in the 400's with no problems.

 

God has arrived....I guess I better take my TT kit off my car or it's going to blow up.

 

Most of them were a long time ago...we've had like 2 or 3 on the boards in the last year, and all of them have been install or tuning issues.

More guys on these boards have FI than ever and we're seeing less and less blown stock motors, that alone should tell you something.

 

No...he had an AEBS sleeved block

 

very difficult to get an accurate reading on the dipstick unless you allow the engine to cool for at least 10-15 sometimes 30 minutes...but if u did this and saw oil anywhere on the dipstick, there is no way that it was 3 quarts low..that is simply not possible!

 

forced induction...hmmm.... well spend a few days doing some research and you'll find that many of us are addressing the reasons that the vq was not good for forced induction, correcting these weaknesses, and building some pretty beefy motors that love the boost

but great comment to say on a forced induction forum..that's throwing yourself to the lions

 

Please tell us why?

 

Why not?

 

Oh man, sorry to hear that, hope you will get your car up and running soon.

Off topic,
But since I see many FI experts here I thought I ask...
I just had my Tnetics ST installed last Saturday. Standard reflash with some leftover N/A mods. I sit at 15.x a/f at idle and 10.x at wot. Am I okay? 15.x at idle is not too lean? I had 14.5 at idle when I was N/A.

Sorry to go off topic, but I didnt want to start a new thread for a quick question.

 

Hey Jimmy, very sorry about your string of bad luck and I certainly hope it changes for the better soon.

Just wanted to let you know I appreciate your sharing this with all of us. That's the beauty of this forum is to share these experiences (good and bad) so we can all learn from them. I know it's saved me from a few mistakes along the way.

Good luck!
Ron

 

I know how you feel man. I've f*ked up most of the things I've done to my car in some way or another, and wasted a lot of cash in the process. Maybe with all that bank hazard pay you're making in Iraq you can just get a new built motor and really enjoy the car.

 

the dipstick reading is difficult on these motors because of the channel that the dipstick is threaded through before it dips into the lower oil pan. Oil will splash up into the dipstick "canal" and cover much of the bottom half of the dipstick with oil, making it very difficult to decifer where the oil line begins and where the oil splash ends...the easiest way to see what is going on is to allow the oil to settle and drip back into the lower oil pan...

the reason that one could not be 3 quarts low if they saw any sort of reading on the dipstick, is because at about 1.5-2 quarts low, the dipstick will not have any oil present!!! at 3 quarts low, the oil level is well below that of the lowest point on the dipstick

hope that explains the why...

 

By blown I think he was referring to Z's and G's that are FI with no problems.