If you plan on road trips, you might want to consider only upgrading the cats, and leaving the OEM catback alone. Or upgrading the cats and getting the Tanabe axleback. You'll get a little extra grunt and a little deeper tone, but won't have to suffer the likely drone of long highway driving with the typical catback.

 

If you're going to use it as a long-distance hauler, why not an M37? Or find the mythical M56?

While IMHO the G37 is as reliable in stock form as any oem nissan, boost adds problems. Keep in mind that power/weight of a G37 is on par with (unmodified) BMW 335, RX8, some Audis, etc - not a slouch. Power to weight is way more important than overall power, unless you want bragging rights only. Even with a 500-HP monster, you're going to be cruising at 80mph 99% of the time. Lots of $ for 1% of the time.

Consider one of the newer Mazda6s with the 2.5 turbo - it would be a car payment and not straight cash, but reliable and hey! warranty - and very nicely appointed. If they made a manual version I'd be thinking about that as my next car.

 

Second that

 

I never knew that about the Juke. I was considering one until I went to carcomplaints.com. people there were always saying the turbos went bad but the nismo Jukes I liked a lot. They pretty much came with everything I wanted and the price was right. They are a little shorter than the Sentra though. hadn't seen any complaints for the Sentra outside of the notoriously bad CVT transmissions so that's why I went with it. Also I have thought about another vehicle. I was thinking about a Corvette(C5 or C6) or a Camaro (5th or 6th gen). those two are my dream cars though.

 

I will check those out. With the Mazda I've never considered one because of the engines they have in them. As for the M37s I wasn't aware of them. I'm a total infiniti noob outside of the Gs.

 

What do you mean? Their engines are generally bulletproof, except for early 1.6L Miata motors and crank wobble. The MazdaSpeed 3 and 6 make decent power and are tunable to stupid power, and the newer cars aren't a slouch even if they're not rockets.

 

I suggest you revisit this. I understand you would like to stay in the Nissan family however it's ok to go to another platform.
Plenty of financials at play here that are important to include and to tell you the truth the G is not the car you want for this.

 

That's good to know. All I remembered about Mazda are the rotary engines. Wasn't sure if they were easy or not to work on.

 

I understand. This is why I came here to get some more clarity on things.

 

Mazda's piston powered motors are generally pretty good; even the previous 2.0 (blew mine up) and 2.3 weren't terrible. I do recall the V6 having quite a bit of issues but the Skyactive ones are great. I'm actually looking at getting a Mazda 3/6 myself as a DD.

 

They are overall however this RX7 will be Supra powered.

 

Well that will certainly be interesting to see

 

My screen name is rotarymike for a reason. Ask away...

 

This is good to know. I've been looking at prices for thr Mazda6 and complaints as well. It's a good size vehicle and also not many complaints I can see. People mainly are complaining about going through brake pads and I see a few transmission problems but nothing in mass. Personally I want the manual 6.

 

are the rotary engines hard to work on?