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Old 09-08-2016, 04:47 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 09-08-2016, 05:23 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Inexperienced manual driver....money shift?
How bad can he be? This is my first manual car and I learned pretty fast, the car still runs well.
Although I feel like sometimes the shifts are a little rough or clunky, but that's reported by a lot of 370Z drivers...
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How bad can he be? This is my first manual car and I learned pretty fast, the car still runs well.
Although I feel like sometimes the shifts are a little rough or clunky, but that's reported by a lot of 370Z drivers...
You have no idea
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How bad can he be? This is my first manual car and I learned pretty fast, the car still runs well.
Although I feel like sometimes the shifts are a little rough or clunky, but that's reported by a lot of 370Z drivers...
Well not sure how he managed a manual trans so low miles but he still hasn't said what happened to the engine so I'm betting he did a money shift.
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Lol ok now I am about 100% sure money shift happened. Let me guess this part needing rebuilt wouldn't happen to be a bunch of valves would it?
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^ ouch ouch lol
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Lol ok now I am about 100% sure money shift happened. Let me guess this part needing rebuilt wouldn't happen to be a bunch of valves would it?
They didn't tell me what is wrong with the engine, they said components and that it needed to be reassemble but engines are not rebuilt (according to them). It it not the valves, i can 100% guarantee that. I dont know that the money shift is.

Having said that, I am not going to start arguing about my qualification for driving the car. I started driving stick shift when I was 9 in a blue nissan datsun. I came to the US at the age of 10, didn't drive stick again until i was 19 and that was only for a week. I thought I mastered it so i stopped. I've been driving my Z now for 4 years. Stop acting like an elitist, as if driving stick took some type of special skill. There is a learning curve but overtime it's easy. It becomes second nature.


PS: I never paid out of pocket for the transmission. somebody asked about that i think
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OP, we know you are not a car enthusiast, and must be hard to try to speak mechanic's language. However, you asked for advice and there is none to be given without any further detail. Please find out what's wrong with the engine. There are many "internal components" in an engine. There should be some paperwork given to you by now, stating the details.

"Money shift" refers to shifting into a wrong gear causing rpm spiking past acceptable range. Google is your friend

Ps: if your post history was given to the dealership, you wouldn't have gotten the tranny for free.
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a sr20 would pull a premium before race wars. If you have to, you can overnight parts from japan.
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Did they mention any of the following words?

a) bearings
b) piston rings
c) connecting rods
d) crank journal
e) pistons
f) oil pump
g) wrist pin
h) camshaft
i) timing chain

We really need more info.
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Having said that, I am not going to start arguing about my qualification for driving the car. I started driving stick shift when I was 9 in a blue nissan datsun. I came to the US at the age of 10, didn't drive stick again until i was 19 and that was only for a week. I thought I mastered it so i stopped.
You are absolutely delusional if you think you mastered driving a manual in one week.

Before you spout off about how good your driving skills after you killed a clutch, transmission, and engine in less than 90K miles, go find a real driving instructor (like at an HPDE) and see what they think about your skills
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Since he doesn't know what the "money shift" is, I wonder if he thinks the rev limiter will protect against it.
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I say the OP needs a "driver mod"

He drove to Vegas and Yellowstone without problems... well, that's fine... that's all highway driving, with little clutch/shifting action.

OP still can't give us any valid reason as to what happened to this transmission or his engine. The dealership should have given a very clear print out as to what is wrong and what needs fixing.

11k for an engine? Yeah, if you buy a new one from the dealership. There are plenty of junk yards around where you can source another engine, for, like said, around 2k. I'd say swap it yourself, but I'm concerned about the knowledge level regarding cars, as thus far, it seems to be rather low. Not hating, just stating the obvious.

I get the feeling the dealer is just robbing the OP. I also get the feeling there is MUCH more to this story than the OP is willing to fess up to. But maybe I'm just crazy.
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I also get the feeling there is MUCH more to this story than the OP is willing to fess up to. But maybe I'm just crazy.
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Was a dealer tech for a long time and heard just about every just driving along story. Great one before I left was brand new 2016 z06 with less than 3k mi that just "stalled out on him on the freeway". Hmm car will only move forward and backward about a foot With car in gear (pushing now engine running). Bore scope and bunch of bend valves, conn rod thrown through the cylinder wall. Was like yup that's not warranty. Best part is we had just been bought out and new management wanted to please all customers and said GM will cover it. Heavy duty guy replaces the engine, GM denies warranty stating obviously mis shift and over revved the engine, done. Then management goes back to heavy duty guy asking what they should do, he's like well you should have waited for approval like I said but no you pushed it through so I guess we just bought an engine.
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