hey guys im a fairly new 350z owner and I love the car. The only problem im having is A BLOWN ENGINE I bought the car with 75,000 miles on it I don't drive it hard it now has 86,000 miles and this morning I was going to the atm and when i went to take off the engine made a loud clunk and shut off. I went under the car and started to dissect a little and found oil leaking of corse, large metal pieces and what looked like a small piston ring(of of the oil rings). so im pretty sure it threw a rod. I didn't spend to much time on it since i was really pissed and ive only put 11,000 miles on it. when i bought the car i got a car fax report which had every scheduled maintenance on it and a very clean report. Do i just have bud luck? **** happens I suppose? I kept up with the maintenance as well since the day i got the car. The previous owner also had a average mpg of 25 so I don't think they drove it to hard either, it was also a older female driver as well.

Do these motors have a bad history?
or did i get ****ed by nissan? lol
or just bad luck?

Thanks in advanced

 

Sounds like bad luck to me.

What are you going to do with the car now?

 

Sounds like bad luck

 

**** happens.

 

Ouch.

 

**** does happen…if it wasnt the engine it would be the tranny, if its not the tranny it's the rear diff -

make lemonaide out of lemons…if you ever wanted a built block/turbo setup now is the time. if you want to keep the OEM setup and want to have a little project then start reading and looking for replacement parts, if you want to be done then look for someone that wants a little project and sell to them and buy what you want. If you want an OEM engine but don't want a project then take it to a mechanic and have it rebuilt and know that you got another 100k miles in the new engine.

 

Thanks for the replies. I wanted to keep it OEM. Does anyone know how much it usually cost to rebuild that engine?

 

it depends on how bad it is if the block is still good ect

 

Just bad luck. Nissan vq can last a long time.

 

Itll depend on what all needs to be machined. Or what you need to buy. Along with parts that should be changed just because the engine is apart. Along with labor unless you plan to do it yourself. So a rebuild could cost anywhere from 500 to thousands. Good luck

 

Welcome what a sad first post. Good luck with getting it sorted. Maybe back luck, but when buying a pre-loved car, you never know exactly what you'll get even if it has a clear check.

Did exactly this for a club member over here today, the professional mechanical check report came back okayish bar 3 other problems (they missed), but with compression issues added to this.

 

wow that sucks

 

I would find a lake and use it to go fishing. Then say "like a good neighbor state farm is there"

 

sorry to hear that man.....im fairly new to the Z's too...i had mine for about 2 months...loving every minute of it....no signs of ANY problems....just for a heads up, were there any signs WHAT SO EVER before the engine went?

 

get this engine from dallas

$1800 with 35k miles
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/3502049848.html

$1500 with 65k miles

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/3425874865.html

$2200 with 36k miles

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/ptd/3484967202.html
http://www.latemodelautosalvage.com/

2007
Engine
Nissan 350Z RTO SN 36,000 Late Model Auto Salvage USA-TX(Haltom-City) 817-916-5325

 

The only warning signs we had was the car vibrating for a little while before it went in less than a minute later it

Thank y'all for the feed back & I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years

 

i got a vq35hr motor with 6,000 miles on it! if your interested, pm me!