dmhenderson

For the record, this is how the E85 conversion went:
-March of 2014 "Hey this would be neat"

-Drop car off in June a little ahead of schedule because un-traceable oil leak made me nervous

-Nothing

-More nothing

-Car gets on dyno early August and goes berserk. Fuel pressure spikes well into the danger zone. Car overheats, knock sensor trips. Idle fuel pressure 2x+ what it should have been. Fuel pressure bottoms out under load.

-Meeting of the minds between Concept Z, Hills and either Zspeed or that other place down south (I forget the name).

-Determined that stock fuel system crapped itself and just couldn't handle 1000cc injectors and the bigger AEM fuel pump.

-Regulator overloaded and rails just can't keep up. Entire OEM fuel system ripped out of the car.

-Full stage 2 fuel return system purchased. Concept Z asks me for pictures of the install because they (I s you not) did not have any install photos yet. At that time, I was literally the only idiot to attempt this that they had run across.

-Fuel return system works. Car decides to play nice

-Morning the car is supposed to go on the dyno for re-tune, massive oil leak resurfaces

-Oil pan pulled. Turns out the little spring/ball bearing pressure valve thingy in my oil pan is just...gone. Oil has been recirculating through the motor without even touching the filter (lol!). Missing pieces of spring valve thing are nowhere to be found. This is...cause for concern. Hill's managed to drop the oil pan without pulling the entire engine (for which I am eternally grateful).

-ALL OIL LINES ripped out of the car back to the filter to find out where the missing ball bearing and spring went. Only way to be sure, right?

-Pieces nowhere to be found! Hooray for wasting money. Best guess is that it fell apart when the supercharger was installed and no one said anything? I'm done trying to blame shops for this stuff. Clearly someone is at fault here but ultimately, it's me because I keep ******* with the car.

-The best part? Hey I got to buy a new oil pan too because the little thing that holds that pressure release valve isn't sold stand-alone by Nissan! Frank tried hard to remove the little valve thingy with pliers without damaging it and gouged the hell out of his hand in the process. New oil pan ahoy andhauHAFUhuasdhaughaugh

-I literally flipped **** and yelled at two very nice people who have taken very good care of my car (I felt terrible afterwards). Frank and Suzanne literally run one of (if not the) best Z tuner shops on the east coast.

-Got car back right before Christmas.
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Now the clutch is eating itself. I had initially pegged the clutch replacement (with labor) to be under $1000

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Ahahaha. Looking more like $2500 with the SB stage 3 daily kit I need plus labor. Oh and because Nissan is retarded, you have to replace the CMC when you replace the clutch. 90% fail when depressurized because....reasons!

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