Reply: Funny Story

[Erik Halvorson]

Thanks for the share Jaret.

I currently commute in a 1995 Infiniti G20t that a friend built.  It has a VE swap, leather interior. Etc.   Decent car.  For trivia sake, it is the same chassis used in Project Car's Honda vs Nissan challenge build article.
All the cool handling parts were gone by the time i got it.   At 55yrs young,  I've decided I'm not a fan of the 5k rpm screaming banshee VE in traffic but i understand the appeal.  However it is a fun back road engine.   It does use a little oil and i let it get low,  then hurt it at high revs on a freeway cloverleaf on my homeward commute. Slight rod knock.   Oops.  I parked it.   Bought a fwd DET to swap in.   Got side tracked by life.   Recently I needed a snow car for a couple weeks.   So I reconnected battery on the G, let the fuel pressure cone up and it started right up, after sitting for 18 months.   I changed oil ( stepped upped viscosity weight).  Changed to snow tires. Put new wipers on...  Runs great.   Tap tap tap of suspected number 3 rod bearing @ 1800rpm is imperceptible even after a whole week of  snow commuting.   I do stay off the big cam love however....  i did a trade of the wounded VE for some welding work when the engine finally comes out of the G, so I'm gambling it'll hold together....  Great chassis in the snow and ice btw.  I have a GTiR exhaust mani, Avenir T25/28, FMIC, jwt cams and scooby injectors all lined up waiting for the swap....  lol. I can't help myself, can I.

The black 91 NX2k I rescued a couple years back got wacked by a sleeping driver right after i got it all put together.   Fraught didn't want it then.   So i sold it to a friend who fixed and painted it.   He's been happily commuting in it since.

The black 1991 SE-R i and my stepdad built (using Geo's DET) is still a happy little commuter.  AGX/Road Magnet suspension.  He does about a 40 mile round trip daily commute for the last 7 years, without a hiccup. That is a fun car!
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