Oil temps from time attack

Originally Posted by Dustin@Z1

LOL....I have seen a few cars where the diff temps get hot enough that the magnet on the drain plug literally mushrooms out. You end up having to pull the diff to get the cover off to drain the fluid.

Originally Posted by Dustin@Z1

That is probably one of the old Nissan tricks that they pull with the part numbers from time to time. The covers are identical from what I recall. Just an example, Nissan Motorsports lists the same part number for the Finned NISMO Diff Cover (which is really not a NISMO part at all, but a Middle Eastern/Austrailian spec part) for all VQ platforms. They just re-number the OE boxes....