New member here, Blew up my nx.
Hey all, how's it going? What I've got is a '91 Nx2000, with a gtir turbo, and various other stuff, coil overs, big breaks, nismotronic, all that fun stuff. I've had it for 8 months or so, and it's been a great car minus the horribly stiff rode and the loud exhaust. Either way, last week it took a step backwards. Really, it started a month ago, and its a bit of a dumb story, but it's mine to tell.
About a month ago some friends and I were cruising about, hitting some back roads, headed to go go kart racing. We stopped at a gas station on the way, I go to check the oil as I'd been spending some time under heavy throttle/boost, it was maybe a half quart low, so I top it off, and we enjoy our evening. A day or two later I notice a hefty oil leak under the car, and when I check it out I notice the oil cap is off, but still under the hood. Oil is everywhere. I just assumed I'd been careless and left it off. Either way, I add 2 quarts or so, put the cap back on, firmly, and go about my business. About a week later I'm driving down the highway, and I notice my oil pressure dipped, so I stop at the first gas station I see to check it out. The Damn oil cap came off again, though I felt relieved to know it had backed off, and I hadn't left it off. I was concerned, was it was around 3 quarts low, but I fill it back up, and has out, though keeping an eye on it.
A bit later, maybe a week or two, everything Has been fine with the car, running and driving great. Doing some racing at a local event, after 3 or 4 runs against an ls fbomb, I started getting heavy smoke. Limp it home, we find it's spraying oil from the pressure line to the turbo. Managed to break braided stainless, lol. It was losing about a quart every 5 minutes, so once again stocked up on gas station oil, and got it home. I was pretty tired of cleaning oil, so I just parked it for a few weeks, and rode my motorcycle. We eventually got around to fixing the leak, just cut the line shorter, and put the fitting back on. Time to test drive.
Initial test drive goes well, taking things gently, very little boost. Slowly go a little harder and a little harder, holding up well. The only concern was that we'd some how knocked my egt probe fixing the oil leak, so the moment the gage got power the went to pegged out, so no egt reading. Make about a minute long 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pull, afr was good the whole time, and the cruise for another little while. On the way home we're sitting at a stop light for a few minutes, everything running normal. As I go to take off, it dies. I hadn't driven it in a while, and the clutch is a bit funny, so I assume I'd killed it. It wouldn't start, which I assumed was because it was hot, and the car hadn't been driven much and the battery was low. I called a friend to jump it, and after a few tries, it starts, and at which point it was knocking. Damn, lol. I'm maybe two miles from my house now, so I decide to try to limp it home, I figured it was shot anyway. As I'm driving, all 35 mph limits, if I push in the clutch, it will die, so I've got to stay in the throttle a bit, getting louder and louder. About a mile in, it let go. Big boom, huge cloud of smoke, cool metallic sounds. Legit.
Cylinder number 3's rod came through the block, doesn't appear to be attached to the piston any more either, and it came through hard enough that the rods currently stuck in the block. I found half the rod cap on the road, the other half is currently mia, though I haven't taken it apart yet. I'm sorry about the bad picture, but it was an 11pm in the dark on the side of a road, halfway in a strangers yard.
On a side note I have an old Nissan 720 that I had parked to to leaking all its transmission oil one night, and when the nx blew I went to take the transmission out of the truck to rebuild it, and fix whatever may have been leaking. I found the leak, the shift fork between 5th and reverse blew a hole in the tail shaft housing. I'm having bad luck with my nissans. Lmao.
About a month ago some friends and I were cruising about, hitting some back roads, headed to go go kart racing. We stopped at a gas station on the way, I go to check the oil as I'd been spending some time under heavy throttle/boost, it was maybe a half quart low, so I top it off, and we enjoy our evening. A day or two later I notice a hefty oil leak under the car, and when I check it out I notice the oil cap is off, but still under the hood. Oil is everywhere. I just assumed I'd been careless and left it off. Either way, I add 2 quarts or so, put the cap back on, firmly, and go about my business. About a week later I'm driving down the highway, and I notice my oil pressure dipped, so I stop at the first gas station I see to check it out. The Damn oil cap came off again, though I felt relieved to know it had backed off, and I hadn't left it off. I was concerned, was it was around 3 quarts low, but I fill it back up, and has out, though keeping an eye on it.
A bit later, maybe a week or two, everything Has been fine with the car, running and driving great. Doing some racing at a local event, after 3 or 4 runs against an ls fbomb, I started getting heavy smoke. Limp it home, we find it's spraying oil from the pressure line to the turbo. Managed to break braided stainless, lol. It was losing about a quart every 5 minutes, so once again stocked up on gas station oil, and got it home. I was pretty tired of cleaning oil, so I just parked it for a few weeks, and rode my motorcycle. We eventually got around to fixing the leak, just cut the line shorter, and put the fitting back on. Time to test drive.
Initial test drive goes well, taking things gently, very little boost. Slowly go a little harder and a little harder, holding up well. The only concern was that we'd some how knocked my egt probe fixing the oil leak, so the moment the gage got power the went to pegged out, so no egt reading. Make about a minute long 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pull, afr was good the whole time, and the cruise for another little while. On the way home we're sitting at a stop light for a few minutes, everything running normal. As I go to take off, it dies. I hadn't driven it in a while, and the clutch is a bit funny, so I assume I'd killed it. It wouldn't start, which I assumed was because it was hot, and the car hadn't been driven much and the battery was low. I called a friend to jump it, and after a few tries, it starts, and at which point it was knocking. Damn, lol. I'm maybe two miles from my house now, so I decide to try to limp it home, I figured it was shot anyway. As I'm driving, all 35 mph limits, if I push in the clutch, it will die, so I've got to stay in the throttle a bit, getting louder and louder. About a mile in, it let go. Big boom, huge cloud of smoke, cool metallic sounds. Legit.
Cylinder number 3's rod came through the block, doesn't appear to be attached to the piston any more either, and it came through hard enough that the rods currently stuck in the block. I found half the rod cap on the road, the other half is currently mia, though I haven't taken it apart yet. I'm sorry about the bad picture, but it was an 11pm in the dark on the side of a road, halfway in a strangers yard.
On a side note I have an old Nissan 720 that I had parked to to leaking all its transmission oil one night, and when the nx blew I went to take the transmission out of the truck to rebuild it, and fix whatever may have been leaking. I found the leak, the shift fork between 5th and reverse blew a hole in the tail shaft housing. I'm having bad luck with my nissans. Lmao.
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