The "Help NismoPick get his Z home" Thread
04-30-2007, 04:02 PM
#1
The "Help NismoPick get his Z home" Thread
So... where do I begin????
MSA was fun! But my car didn't like the trip. On the way down to LA, when I hit Vegas my motor started to heat up... valve rockers started clacking. So I stopped @ my uncles house just off Tropicana & Eastern and take a look... not much to see, but we changed out my thermostat & we were on to LA. Arrived in LA with the clacking getting worse... pull the valve cover again @ MSA Garage sale... notice the intake & exhaust cam lobes for cyl# 4 & 5 are wearing very badly... can't do too much since I was in LA. Sunday night we left for Salt Lake... made it to Barstow before my oil temp got outrageously hot. Pulled off the YERMO exit & take a look... cam nice and dry... no oil (even tho my gauge said I have excelent oil pressure). So... after a nice debate @ 2am w/ my wife in the middle of nowhere Cali, we call a tow truck & get the car towed back to my uncle's home in LV for a nice $450 bill. Got our lugage & caught the next flight home to SLC. I called DAS (Dependable Auto Shippers) and for $695 I can have it picked up & delivered to my door in 1 - 14 days. Good times! Anyone feel super duper nice & want to help me get my car home?
MSA was fun! But my car didn't like the trip. On the way down to LA, when I hit Vegas my motor started to heat up... valve rockers started clacking. So I stopped @ my uncles house just off Tropicana & Eastern and take a look... not much to see, but we changed out my thermostat & we were on to LA. Arrived in LA with the clacking getting worse... pull the valve cover again @ MSA Garage sale... notice the intake & exhaust cam lobes for cyl# 4 & 5 are wearing very badly... can't do too much since I was in LA. Sunday night we left for Salt Lake... made it to Barstow before my oil temp got outrageously hot. Pulled off the YERMO exit & take a look... cam nice and dry... no oil (even tho my gauge said I have excelent oil pressure). So... after a nice debate @ 2am w/ my wife in the middle of nowhere Cali, we call a tow truck & get the car towed back to my uncle's home in LV for a nice $450 bill. Got our lugage & caught the next flight home to SLC. I called DAS (Dependable Auto Shippers) and for $695 I can have it picked up & delivered to my door in 1 - 14 days. Good times! Anyone feel super duper nice & want to help me get my car home?
04-30-2007, 06:28 PM
#6
Super Siver & Black Stud
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hayward Ca
Posts: 1,526
that sux man....how many miles is it from your uncles house to yours... maybe you can rent a uhaul trailer and take her home yourself... might be a lil more work for you but prolly a lot cheaper than $700
04-30-2007, 10:28 PM
#9
Head Muckraker
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 9,221
Originally Posted by NismoPick
we call a tow truck & get the car towed back to my uncle's home in LV for a nice $450 bill. Got our lugage & caught the next flight home to SLC. I called DAS (Dependable Auto Shippers) and for $695 I can have it picked up & delivered to my door in 1 - 14 days.
04-30-2007, 11:22 PM
#10
Über User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: lemont, Illinois
Posts: 9,532
this happened to us once, we left 2 people wtih the car. then teh others finished teh trip from ohio to IL then we got a pickup truck, got a car trailer from Uhaul, then drove back, then got teh car and drove back again.... i couldnt stay for teh fun, i needed to get home, they didnt finish till 11 am the next day, car died at about 3 pm the previous day. reason i couldnt stay, i had my final court appearence for my street racing crap, if i skipped it, JAIL TIME!
05-01-2007, 03:16 AM
#14
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,075
I'm sure sorry to hear about your troubles. 
I had a similar thing happen to me with my last car; I had driven to LA, and then the night I was to return home, the transmission crapped out on me and wouldn't stay in gear. I had it towed to a nearby relative's house and then rented a U Haul truck and dolly to tow it all the way back home. I think it cost me a few hundred to do that because of the mileage.
Maybe you could get it repaired wherever it's at, and then drive it home. If you're gonna have to pay to repair it, may as well not use up the money on transporting it home.
I had a similar thing happen to me with my last car; I had driven to LA, and then the night I was to return home, the transmission crapped out on me and wouldn't stay in gear. I had it towed to a nearby relative's house and then rented a U Haul truck and dolly to tow it all the way back home. I think it cost me a few hundred to do that because of the mileage. Maybe you could get it repaired wherever it's at, and then drive it home. If you're gonna have to pay to repair it, may as well not use up the money on transporting it home.
05-01-2007, 08:18 AM
#17
Originally Posted by Bleach
does anyone live in Vegas that could tow it to him?
Some people have a truck and car dolly... that would be a big help more than trying to collect $700 in donations
Some people have a truck and car dolly... that would be a big help more than trying to collect $700 in donations
05-01-2007, 09:23 AM
#18
Doesn't post much...
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Escondido (San Diego) California
Posts: 3,617
AWWWW DuDe!!!
That totally sucks.
Sorry to hear it went further south on you after the show (it was probably all that tear-assin' through town on the way to Chili's that finished it off...
)
Not much I can do from hear in SD, but I'll see if I can locate some help for you. Maybe our old Friend in Vegas can help out... I'll see what I can do.
Rod.
That totally sucks.
Sorry to hear it went further south on you after the show (it was probably all that tear-assin' through town on the way to Chili's that finished it off...
)Not much I can do from hear in SD, but I'll see if I can locate some help for you. Maybe our old Friend in Vegas can help out... I'll see what I can do.
Rod.
05-01-2007, 09:31 AM
#19
Originally Posted by RodMoyes
Sorry to hear it went further south on you after the show (it was probably all that tear-assin' through town on the way to Chili's that finished it off... )
)
05-01-2007, 10:35 AM
#20
Usedta be Justin260z
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Oklahoma City
Posts: 722
Does your cam have external lubrication (with the oil spray bar), or is it internally lubed? Mine WAS external, until one lobe dried up on a long drive. I feel for you man & I would help ya out, but I dont have a job.... I cant even buy gas for MY car lol.
05-01-2007, 11:18 AM
#21
Externally Wastegated
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego
Posts: 1,220
Dude, let me know what you need and I'll see what I can do. It was fun "cruising" to Chili's haha even though for about 1/3 of the trip I was playing catch up! Gotta love the bridge overhangs too! All of us definitely have to kick it again next year. I hope Shady can make the trip back out here again as well!
Last edited by lifegrddude; 05-01-2007 at 11:21 AM.
05-01-2007, 11:27 AM
#23
Originally Posted by lifegrddude
Dude, let me know what you need and I'll see what I can do. It was fun "cruising" to Chili's haha even though for about 1/3 of the trip I was playing catch up! Gotta love the bridge overhangs too! All of us definitely have to kick it again next year. I hope Shady can make the trip back out here again as well!
anyway... I'm prolly just gunna have DAS ship it... door to door, no hassle, no making my buddies deal w/ it...
05-01-2007, 11:47 AM
#25
Big Poppa
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mission, British Columbia
Posts: 4,499
dude, put on the spray bar and just go..... or call a diff. company, that could be shipped much cheaper. try auto carriers in vegas, they make that trip all the time. may end up costing less by far.
