Good luck. Got my fingers crossed for you.........

thx man! im so anxious its killing me lol for once i want a week end to end so bad

Your engine threw a rod do to lack of oil. I am pretty sure something went wrong during an oil change (over tighten the filter that could crack the ruber seal, loose filter, etc). Over time those described gave out and car starts loosing oil at a fast rate. Good thing is that you got the service done at the dealer; so they should be covering for it, not in a warrantee kind of way.

I had this happened to me before on my dd. It was too cold to do my own oil (winter) change so i took it to the shop to get it done. After weeks of driving and noticing a tiny droplets of oil, my engine threw a rod on the highway. I parked and looked underneath and saw the oil pouring out like a faucet. Took it to the mechanic and they show me the filter rubber seal was snapped in two. So good luck in getting it fixed.

I was thinking the same exact thing. If this was done by your local dealer Westwood, you should be fine buddy. Either your motor was burning a major amount of oil (which would be a cause for concern from the get-go), or there was an issue when the oil change was done (I'm thinking this).

The pulley wouldn't have had anything to do with the motor blowing. Your mods wouldn't cause the car to run TOO lean to blow the motor either. It was either during the last oil change where something happened, or the motor was a lemon from the factory and the piston rings were seated improperly (doubtful).


I bet there's oil residue around the oil filter or drain plug, if they're still there.

Keep us updated. :hello:

More reason are cars need a oil pressure gauge. Even though it still could be to late. But it could help if your lucky.

I only know that I used it in my 350z and oil consumption went way up and they had to replace my engine under warranty.

Hope you get a new engine from Nissan so you can get the Z back on the roads!

That sucks sorry man!

Hope all goes well for you man,from the picture it looks like oil everywhere. I think for some reason there was no oil ,and you shot a rod threw the block.

These kind of stories make me not want to mod. Anxiously waiting on the verdict.

That sucks bro. Keep us updated on how it went today.:ugh2:

Sorry to hear what happened to ur z bro.
I had something similar happen on my 09 altima. I had bunch of noise happened and then it just died. I towed it home and took off all bolt ons, stillen header, stillen pulley, intake, catback, tuner, and even the wheels. Then called the dealer monday cause it happened on a sunday. They towed it to the dealership. They gave me a hard time cause some bolts had been tampered. A nissan representative came from cali and took pics. The service rep told the nissan guy they had torqued the bolts and checked everything thats why they looked the way they did. Anyway took 6 weeks to get head and pistons replaced. They wouldnt give me a new engine cause it only had 4400 miles. I hated the idea, so I sold the piece of caca before it even made it out the service department.
Best of luck bro. Hope its something simple and turns out great.

Any update on this? Has the dealership looked at it?

Hey guys im still waiting! my baby is in the garage and they are doing diagnostics? And i know the guy at the parts service and he told me i dont have to worry for my bolt ons... i hope h'es right damit!!!

Unless the dealer is a complete jerk, you should be OK as far as the bolt-ons go. Sometimes Nissan will get involved in engine replacements, and make things more difficult for the dealership. Just out of curiosity, I know you said you had to add a quart of oil.... How long had it been since you had checked it (or how long did it take to go through that quart)?

I don't know that it is an oil issue, but just curious. You can see a lot of oil in the pics (I would imagine several quarts), and I would also guess that you dumped a lot on the highway before you could pull over.