Good and bad this weekend

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Good-wife out of town, went to closing race at the local road course and got to work on a real Formula Atlantic car , a beautiful fall Sunday spent fly fishing for trout with friends (got 4)

Bad -wife out of town , didn't get to work on the SVX, and spent most of the rest of the weekend doing the G35 brakes

I noticed on Thursday that the G, at 37K miles, needed new rear brakes (rumble, slight squeak). Picked up the pads, got the rotors cut and bolted it back together with no issues Saturday after the race. Take the customary test drive and notice a *slight* scraping noise. Damn. Take it back apart to check things but find nothing wrong. Button it back up, fire her up and head out. DAMN. Noise is now worse! I've done enough brake jobs in my life to now I didn't miss this noise maker twice, so I decide to check the front brakes, you know, just in case. DAMN, fronts gone too!!! Saturday night, no pads, 8:30 pm. Tear it down and race to the local shop which closes at 9:00pm to find the place had just closed. Get back home from fishing today (got up at 3:45am, ugh) and head to the shop 15 minutes before closing to find that the rotors have no casting thickness minimum and the guy behind the counter states that since the car has VDC, he can't even order rotors for me. Infiniti yanked the franchise from my local dealer, so I now have an hour drive for parts tomorrow. BTW, this is the second set of front pads, and I know the rotors are beyond discard thickness. 37K, WTH???

Clif notes - Infiniti (Nissan) brake parts suck and I'm upset with the car, but the weekend was still pretty damn OK!

Todd