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Well to start I got her back this weekend, after 5 weeks of driving a new Nissan Altima rental (FWD and the transmission blows) and a $9k repair job. Got the TSB for the 7AT done along with the brakes at Infiniti, and proceeded to install the parts I had waiting (pictures below).
I ordered the AIT CF Engine Cover from Outcast Garage, along with Dress Up Bolts from CZP and the CUSCO strut bar from amazon, which I had powercoated black.
That's a nice touch, how much are they going for and do you have the link by any chance?
The tank itself was $100 (see below link posted by DFS), but I paid an additional $15 to have it modified to work with our OEM washer fluid pump. If your interested, just call them and talk to Damian and tell him Adrian sent you. He'll remember me.
Originally Posted by hexotic
My ballasts rejected 3 sets of DD his bulbs, I hope yours work out well. DD did their best to take care of me, but Nissan ballasts can be a fickle mistress. Ended up splurging on Osram cbi bulbs.
I had the same issue with the DD bulbs in one of my headlights. I ended up going with the Osram CBI's as well.
Originally Posted by Peruviann
Made a wood laminate trunk today. Came out ok. I want to remake it in the future
Looks good. Just need to clean up the edges a little.
Nice find, DFS. That's the same one. I just had them modify it with a 3/4" hole in the bottom to fit the rubber grommet for our OEM pump.
Originally Posted by Rochester
How was the install? IIRC when working with the fog on the passenger side, the OEM washer fluid tank is real b1tch to access (without dropping the bumper.)
Oh hey... it comes in a textured, black powdercoat, too! That certainly caught my eye. Although it looks like it would crowd my R2C heat shield. Hmmm.
Although using the OEM pump makes it "plug-n-play", it's still not a direct bolt-on for our cars. You would have to make a custom bracket to install it. Also, if you have short tube intakes then there may not be enough space for the tank. Anyone with long tube intakes should have the space though.
FYI.. the easiest way to access the OEM washer tank it to remove the passenger's side inner front fender liner. It actually quite easy and once the line is removed the tank is right there. Not the greatest pic, but the OEM washer fluid tank would sit right were the filter are sitting in the bottom of this pic. This pic was taken with the inner fender liner removed.
Last edited by 2GoRNot2G; Feb 13, 2017 at 01:21 PM.
Carguy95, glad you have it back, what all was repaired (my memory isn't so good, lol)
Nice touch in the engine bay, looking good!
Long story short, I ran over what I'm gonna call a boulder, for lack of a better word, that a truck dropped onto I-77. It punctured the floorboard and damaged several other areas of the floor pan.
The shop that fixed it told me I was the first one in the history of Infiniti to have to order a floor pan, which had to come from Japan. I wouldn't wish what happened on my worst enemy.
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how did this not take your front clip and dispose of it in the ditch.... does one consider themself unlucky, or lucky that if wasn't worse??
I guess more lucky than not, the insurance covered most of it and the damage was mostly cosmetic. It make a gunshot-liken sound when I ran over it, but I knew before I pulled over it was bad.
My powder coater " these pics don't give it justice . It has been chemical stripped , sand blasted , outgas, preheat outgas, hours spent masking the areas that cannot be powder coated , 3 staged powder coat ( 3x the material and labor?!?!) ".
I feel he said all that to charge me more ... $250 is the damage . My cousin went to school with him , I think that's already discounted lol.
That's not good. I haven't read anything about them not working on the g's. So far so good with mine but I just installed them so time will tell. I hope I won't have any issues
I'd heard the same thing. I didn't want to mess with that frustration and went with Osram CBI and haven't looked back so-to-speak...
Dropped my g37 off to get a custom headlight build as a birthday gift to myself
You guys are right about the DD hids, they don't work. Driver side started acting up the next day after install. Sometimes it turned on but most off the time it didn't light up at all. Passenger side worked flawless, but reason for that is that it's an aftermarket light and projector which I never knew until today after the guy started the work on my headlights. Dealership never told me anything about that when I purchased the car in 2015. Will swap the DD for the osrams as well while he has the headlights off
$250 for those calipers is a pretty normal price. That required a lot of work to complete. I used to powder coat a lot of stuff and that would be the last part I would want to work on
Long story short, I ran over what I'm gonna call a boulder, for lack of a better word, that a truck dropped onto I-77. It punctured the floorboard and damaged several other areas of the floor pan.
The shop that fixed it told me I was the first one in the history of Infiniti to have to order a floor pan, which had to come from Japan. I wouldn't wish what happened on my worst enemy.
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Wow! Very scary! You are really lucky that rock didn't puncture your brake lines. From the pics it looks like it just grazed and dented one.
Originally Posted by Wangstas863
My powder coater " these pics don't give it justice . It has been chemical stripped , sand blasted , outgas, preheat outgas, hours spent masking the areas that cannot be powder coated , 3 staged powder coat ( 3x the material and labor?!?!) ".
I feel he said all that to charge me more ... $250 is the damage . My cousin went to school with him , I think that's already discounted lol.
Those calipers turned out great. Did you rebuild them yourself?
What color do they call that anyway? I'm thinking of having mine redone in Candy Apple Red to match the rest of my undercarriage/suspension parts.
I finally got the time to finish the front suspension and trunk for my AirLift install. The trunk area turned out nice & clean with everything fitting nicely in the spare tire well.
Unfortunately now I've just discovered that I have a very slow leak at one of the tank fittings so the tank has to come back out this weekend to fix that. Otherwise everything else is working perfectly!
Just need to clean up the edges a little.
