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A diff swap will work and will change your rear ratio. It will benefit the 25 tremendously but it might mess with your cruise control.
If you're swapping the diff from a RWD G37S 7AT Sedan, the final drive ratio will be the same at 3.357:1, however only the RWD Sport Package had VSLD, whereas the RWD non-Sport did not.
If you're swapping the diff from the 6MT (or the 2008 G37 Coupe RWD 5AT), the final drive will be shorter at 3.692:1.
If you're swapping the diff from the Vert 6MT, you'll have even shorter rear gears (3.916:1), but no VLSD regardless of sport package. Never understood why that is, but it is what it is.
MPH was unaffected when I went with 4.083 rear gears on my 6MT.