Kidcane

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^^What can I say, I am a model employee.

wiseman

LOL... With a sense of humor as well. Nice to meet you...I find more information about my G37S on this site than my dealer and service department combined.

Gamedog

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^ Good to hear... That's what the sites here for

Vectorsumio

Hey all, not a G37 owner but I did just pick up my Nismo 370z. I haven't yet experienced the infamous "limp mode" but just made a video of my heat built up during my little cruise to show how fast the oil heats up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caz7tg0OKCo

I've been picking up some flack for the 4k driving but, IMHO I think that's mild for this car. Just some documentation of the issue. Hope something is done about this for all our sakes.

Q8y_drifter

just a quick note on oil coolers. A few G35 sedan owners (and maybe even G37 coupes) have tranny oil coolers from factory while others do not. Look into the bumper mesh / opening and if you have one, it should be on the drivers side. I have made a thread a few months ago with a little info on it. Hope that helps. My G is a GCC spec 2ng gen sedan and all of the Gulf spec G's have it as far as I know. I have seen SOME US spec G's have it while others don't. Maybe it's a sport vs. non-sport thing? who knows.

Blade89

Sorry to bring up a really old/dead thread, but I never saw a fix for this.

I have an 08 G37s 6MT and I took it to Oregon Raceway Park today, the first time this has been on a track. It did this same thing. I've driven hard in the past and never have I had this happen. ORP is a 2 mile 16 turn track with some decent elevation changes so you are in 2nd/3rd a lot going back and forth with the RPMs hanging around 5k-7k almost always.

It was engaged this mode after about 2 laps on a 75 degree day.

I'd love to know what the deal was with this.

Thanks.

mikelr

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It's oil temp related, only way to fix the issue is to run a sufficient sized oil cooler to keep temps in check.

Blade89

Ok thanks, people were guessing this, but I never heard if it was confirmed or not.

I am thinking about getting the Stillen Supercharging kit installed later on, can I assume that they would install a sufficient oil cooler in this?

mikelr

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No, as far as I know both Stillen and GTM offer coolers but only as an extra option. I've got the GTM system, no oil cooler provided.

G37Sam

Get a nice 34 row setrab cooler. The oil in our VQ's just loves to overheat.

alunserjr

I have to apologize. I thought I posted an update on this a long time ago. Shortly after my last post I had the Stillen oil cooler installed and it solved the limp mode. It never happened again and I tracked my car up to 2011. I no longer track my car and have removed the oil cooler. I bought a race prepped 944 in 2011 and am racing in NASA North East.