What happened to Sylvan Lake?
11-12-2013, 08:47 PM
#21
Broken power steering line, multiple oil leaks, bad turbo seal, I needed to change waste gate springs. I had also broke my drive shaft and G35 ones are two pc so it smashed around under the car a hit the Air bag sensor that deployed both driver and passenger front air bags so the dash all needed replacing the seat belts steering wheel air bag all which i had sitting in my garage. Over the years I have broke cam shafts, multiple axles, drive shaft, I had a bent fly wheel trigger ring that took weeks to figure out, two ruined transmissions and I popped a couple head gaskets the list goes on and on and is full of leaky turbo oil and coolant lines leaking valve cove seals, leaking oil pans, leaking radiators i have seen and fixed it all. The built engine had been in and out 4 times the stock engine twice the transmission at least 1/2 a dozen times, which was all fine when i had time to do but recently i am gone from my family 6 out of 7 days/week the last thing i wanted to do on saturday was tear into my car it would have taken 1/2 of the summer in my free saturdays to fix it all and i wasnt willingbto take that away from my family. This was just the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. I have had the car 8 years and 7 of those were turbo charged I did 90% of my own work with hand tools (no air or electric) all of the aluminum under the hood was hand sanded and polished by me so the car had 100s and 100s of hours of my time into it so it's not like I dropped it off at a shop got a fast car back then when a power steering line broke I said F@#k it this is too much for me to handle. the day I told my wife I was selling it she said "good I hate that car" 
I had no idea but that's when I knew I made the right choice.
I had no idea but that's when I knew I made the right choice.I look at the N54 and N55 and the issues those have which are numerous, and I would much rather go through that than deal with this V35
Last edited by Andrei; 11-12-2013 at 09:01 PM.
12-03-2013, 04:56 AM
#23
I absolutely loved your engine bay, but i can understand the headaches. Also, nice truck, not what i would've picked but looks like youre enjoying it. I lost interest in newer generation cars, I'm sure that will change after a few years though. 1st generation M3, Porsche 930, and a volvo 245 wagon (AHAHAH) are on my want list recently.
12-03-2013, 06:12 AM
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Damn, remember your car from back when, was one of the nicer ones on the forum.
Decent pick up with the X5M though, they are pretty quick after a tune, enjoy.
Decent pick up with the X5M though, they are pretty quick after a tune, enjoy.
10-01-2015, 06:48 PM
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I thought I would pop in and see what's up... Anyone around from the 2010-12 era?
The X5M was fun, I put HRE 22" wheels on it I did exhaust, catless down pipes with a tune. It was a beast I out ran a built engine TT Z on the hiway with it and made numerous sports car mad with my "manvan".
However I eventually got tired of it and bought an ISF, I was close to getting a GTR but I knew it would end up being a huge money pit.
I love the ISF of course I wish it had more power, I did catless manifolds, 2.5" true dual exhaust, pie cut titanium intake, a fair bit of suspension work, 19x10-19x12" wheels and some cosmetics. I also have a ported intake manifold and a nitrous kit waiting to instal.
At first I embraced my inner ricer and got Blue TE37s I ran them for a summer before getting something beefier
The X5M was fun, I put HRE 22" wheels on it I did exhaust, catless down pipes with a tune. It was a beast I out ran a built engine TT Z on the hiway with it and made numerous sports car mad with my "manvan".
However I eventually got tired of it and bought an ISF, I was close to getting a GTR but I knew it would end up being a huge money pit.
I love the ISF of course I wish it had more power, I did catless manifolds, 2.5" true dual exhaust, pie cut titanium intake, a fair bit of suspension work, 19x10-19x12" wheels and some cosmetics. I also have a ported intake manifold and a nitrous kit waiting to instal.
At first I embraced my inner ricer and got Blue TE37s I ran them for a summer before getting something beefier
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07-02-2016, 11:26 PM
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I thought I would look back in, I still have the ISF I did have my name on a new GSF before they were released but I decided to keep the ISF. A tuning solution has been found for the ISF and a supercharger is soon to be released so that has me interested 550-600whp is what the F needs.
On occasion I brows used G37s or used FX35s and think of taking on another build. A couple months ago I was looking into picking up a Lexus GS and swapping in a 2J GTE and going crazy on it but I just couldn't find anything decent enough that I wanted to start with. I won't lie my requirements were pretty specific especially when looking to buy 10+ year old cars... Reliable & fast is good but stupid fast is great.
On a side note I do run into a couple old FI VQ boys on the ISF forums it's nice to see what everyone has been up to.
On occasion I brows used G37s or used FX35s and think of taking on another build. A couple months ago I was looking into picking up a Lexus GS and swapping in a 2J GTE and going crazy on it but I just couldn't find anything decent enough that I wanted to start with. I won't lie my requirements were pretty specific especially when looking to buy 10+ year old cars... Reliable & fast is good but stupid fast is great.
On a side note I do run into a couple old FI VQ boys on the ISF forums it's nice to see what everyone has been up to.
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