I'm having a motor put in here's some pics I got a great deal. It's costing me less to swap the motor than to replace the valves, this is the new motor going in, so I thought I share pics of what the VQ looks like out of the car:

how much did the motor cost?

I'll go ahead and take that old VQ35 off your hands

I have someone that's interested in buying it. If he doesn't I'm gonna keep it for build.

$850

is this a result of the back fire

out the with the almost old in with the almost new lol

No, I had the burnt exhaust valve since june of 08 when it started missing so I had a compression check and leak down test done, low compression in cylinder 5 as a result of the burnt exhaust valve and a bad injector and probably the juice didn't help either. I'll build the old engine when I get my cash right and the new motor is costing less to do the motor swap than a valve job so that's a no brainer.