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Because of the pointers to 370zs, I've been researching them too. Do our 6MT cars have the rev-match feature the 6MT z cars do? I don't think mine does, but then again it occasionally fights me when I heel and toe. I thought it was just inexperience with the chassis feel.
Congrats on finding one! I also have a '13 black on black 6MT sedan... Oh, and I purchased those Nismo wheels. I definitely recommend getting a set or the '15s also look good.
This is about Bobby, my 2013 G37 6MT Sedan. Bobby as in Bobby Draper, Martian Space Marine (from the books rather than TV). Non white, kinda thick, very powerful. HA!
My daughter calls the car Toothless because (her words 1. Its one of a kind, 2. It's black, 3. It's fast
Well, those wheels are no longer on the car. (they're for sale hint hint). I put black plastidipped Coupe Sport 19"s on there - I'll try to get pics tomorrow.
2013 6MT Sedan
Coupe Sport 19" wheels
Z1 intake maf-tb silicone
FI RHFCs
FI 2.25 catback
Ebay short shift kit (which is coming back out asap)
minimal interior (still) ...because the sunroof leaked and I had 6" water in the bottom of the car after a hurricane.
Lasfit backup bulbs
Diode Dynamics amber XP80 rear turn signals
debadged rear
gloss black grill
old razo shift **** from the 90s
I've got sitting in the garage:
RJM pedal
projector fog lights
headlight polish kit
(1) electric folding mirror
EL Skyline sill plates
Skyline rear badging
replacement shift ****
aluminum honeycomb maf housings
several VQ35 upper intake manifolds
1 or 2 VQ35 fuel rails and lower intake manifolds
spare washu trim except driver's door
That's from the top of my head. There may be more stuff I've bought and don't recall since I get to work on the darn car so rarely.
Some other things I forgot:
Redline trans and diff fluids
switched to Mobile one 0W40 euro car oil with the larger M1 filter
actually fixed the damn sunroof leak
spray painted front calipers to see if I like the color
got the stuff for a hidden hitch
got an OBD2 gauge deal (separate thread)
in the process of making a G sensor bypass harness
WRX STI lenses for the headlights
It already had the Florida tint, which I fall in and out of love with depending on mood.
Stuff to do/buy and install:
Make hitch
mod tailights so outer ring is just brake
mod headlights for STI lenses, LEDs and blackout - and maybe a purple demon eye.
build rest of custom intake (need tubes or hoses for from the maf housing through the radiator support, and the filters/rain guard)
wrap chrome trim (have wrapped)
figure out what I'm doing for a rear spoiler / gurney flap
steel brake lines
wrap interior stuff
repair seat side panels
remove sport seat lower bars
whiteline bars
upper strut bar
port/bell throttle bodies
port/smooth VQ35 intake
PCV reroute
research TB coolant line delete
get injectors cleaned
TUNE! I'm thinking ECUTek, maybe at Z1 since they're the closest actual tuner. I'm not interested in email tunes.
Long term:
race seats or recover stock seats
clutch and lightweight flywheel
try to install smart cruise and steering headlights
Vline2
Get spare engine from LKQ and build at leisure
This is my first V6 engined car. Two previous inline 6s, a few V8s, 2 4-pots, and finally 8+ street rotaries, hence the moniker rotarymike.
I was an Air Force aircraft mechanic and then a civilian avionics maintenance tech for a long bit, then I went to college and grad school. Paid partly for college by building SCCA IT-S race engines (all rotary, 12A and 13B) and IT-A, IT-7, and IT-S race cars and crewing for a few. (favorite: ITA RX2). Used to do a lot of HPDEs in a quasi-track prepped 89 RX7. Still have a ton of aircraft and racing tools and have fooled myself into thinking that I can do most anything... but I no longer have access to a lift, the better welders, tire machines, press, forge, or the like.
I've always wanted a Skyline since going to Japan in the late 90s with the USAF. Bought/borrowed an R34 (just the RWD model) when I went back to Japan for study abroad in 2005 - still a reservist so could get by all the licensing/inspection/tax requirements via SOFA. When the G35s came out I wanted one badly, but was still financially in the used 2nd get RX7 market. Then I got a 96 Jeep Cherokee and drove that until 270k miles and the body was having some rust issues. Then the RX8, which was a great car until the throwout bearing seized and bent the transmission input shaft and shattered the clutch disk and pressure plate. It wasn't pretty, and would have cost more than the car was worth to fix...
So here I am. Started looking for a '13 few years back, stalled and started looking at STis, realized I was an old man and started looking for 6MTs again. Found mine in Orlando FL at a Ford dealer, and now I've had it through two winters. Hurricane happened the fall of the year I bought it, and so I've been driving with no/minimal interior for two years. Put the carpet back in this summer after bedliner-ing the floor pan where there was no factory sound dampening. Xylene vapors probably killed some brain cells along the way so if I seem demented let's agree to blame that.
I need to go through old posts to put a timeline together with pictures I guess.
Quite an Unicorn! water leaks do suck. We had the same ideas after carpet was pulled, I was surprised also to see a naked floor since I was expecting something for sound.
I resealed seams and layed some thick towels in mine which helped. A some point the doors will get a similar treatment. Great find!
I've got pics of the problem but not the repair. Basically spliced into hoses on A-pillars and teed into the AC drain on passenger side, and there's a boss and subfloor hole right under the left heel on the driver's side.
Also - the dead pedal sucks. I'm crushing the foam when I brace during cornering. Has anyone made a replacement that isn't a piece of foam and crossed fingers? Couldn't find anything online.
Found some photos:
This is why I got a sedan instead of the much-easier-found coupe:
If I don't fit in the back seat, and my kid's child seat is less than 2" from the rear window, that's a no-go.
So I picked this thing up May 2018. Looked like this:
06-06-2018, 04:39 PM
1. Its one of a kind, 2. It's black, 3. It's fast
47 is such a fun age. Around my house we have the Subaru, the Nissan, and Dad's Car.
