So yea, names jerry, from miami, florida, USA.

So after i spent a year getting my sr built with pistons rods and all that jazz, i dont think im gonna use it lol.

A family member of mine owns a couple of junkyards, and i just got tired of seeing vh's thrown away. I have like 5 running motors right now plus like 4 that dont run, we usually chuck em anyway, no one buys them here.

So decided to put one in my s14.

Heres some pics of my mounts i made, I used a pair of hockey pucks for insulators, this has been done before with good results, the rest I fabricated from 1/4 steel plate.

The motor is as lows as possible on to the front crossmember, it looks like its touching but its just tilted foward a bit.

Here i test fitted it into one of my spare parts cars.

And finnally my play ground. lol
13 acres, 3500 cars plus or minus

BTW motor will actually be going into this car

You see in the pics the vh bellhousing , my next plan of action is to make the motor and the tranny happy together, after this motor goes in to car.

Great looking S14!

Is this a PS line cut in these pics? Is that the side of the oil pan?

How many parking spaces are a lot???

I cut the factory power steering cooling loop out because it was in the way of the oil pan. Im gonna run a power steering cooler anyway.

Its defintely overkill for an NA vh anyway.

Its not gonna be NA for long. Plan is vortech supercharger which im trying to aquire now, looking for about 425-450 whp.

Modified by gs14racer at 10:06 PM 3/2/2007

ON the stock NA ka24de in the 240sx people are getting more power by going with a 3 inch all the way then a 2.5 as logic would suggest with a natraully aspirated motor. This has been proved time and time again locally and on freshalloy.

So with a motor as big as a 4.5 liter VH theres no reason not to think that gains especially in the upper RPM range would be had with a dual 3 inch. It seems to me that a 3 inch single would be choking the motor a bit. As well as choking it after it goes forced induction. In addition a lot of supra guys are finding gains as much as 30 whp by just switching from a 3.0 inch downpipe to a 3.5 inch down pipe and leaving the rest of the exhaust 3 inches. But hey ive been proved wrong before.

Time will tell as soon as the headers and exhaust are made the car will be going stright to the dyno, and Ill be sure to post up the results.

Besides since I fabricate the exhaust myself its not costing a lot to do this, just the piping and U bends.

Modified by gs14racer at 2:59 PM 3/3/2007

More than exhaust clearance im concerened with oil pan clearanceas you can see in this pic the oil pan is about 25 mm below the crossmember. If it becomes an issue ill have to cut it apart redisgn the pick up and just make it sit higher.

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Any idea how the starter is going to fit?

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To the gearbox if he uses the z32 transmission.

Mmmm, IMPUL Goodness

Yeah that'd work...

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As for the mounts, I just got some 1/4 steel, used the stock mount to make a template for the block, made it a little longer. Placed the motor on the subframe then cut out peices to bolt it where i wanted it. Then weld.

Heres a pic, car is a 90. I am downloading the 94 vh service manual does anyone know if the pinouts are the same.

I assume these three plugs are the ones that need to be hooked up for this car to work.

To save me time does anyone know which wires have to be hooked up?
I assume all i need is

power from the eccs relay
power to the coils, injectors, maf, o2, tps, etc
fuel pump relay signal
Start signal
RPM signal
Colant temp signal
Check engine light

There was mention of the auto tranny inhibtor bypass, can anyone elaborate

Does anyone know if the vh tach output will work with the 4cyl guage cluster????

Should have the Z32 tranny adapter plate sorted out this week, more details to come once I know its done.

I think one member already has a VH45de running in an s13 hatch with the stock ecu/ harness but I think he just laid the harness over the S13 one and left the S13 ecu to control things and the VH45de to work the motor... its not the cleanest route but certainly the quickest and cheapest. and if youre savvy you could pare down the wiring once you did that and get it to look pretty sano.

15 wires in total

But im also using the check engin light, oil pressure light, factory temp guage, cooling fan signal for relay, and a/c. The stock 240sx ecu or harness is not necsacary.

Integrating it into the chassis harness will be easy enough.

Ill post the bare nessiscty for it to run wires later for future reference for others.

I only have one question.

What is pin 48 on the ecu?

Also the hood closes fine

I'm loving the idea .

I'd be interested to see/hear your solutions for clutch master & slave cylinders, and brake booster.

****in LHD, here's me looking at the proper side of the car for the brake booster etc, when of course it's on that crazy foreign other side position!

But seriously, even so, I'd have thought the brake booster would be interfering with the head ?

By my calculations i only need to remove about 2 mm of material off the back corner for it to have a fair amount of room.

But thats small potatoes.

My real problem is this

Power steering. The pump wants to be where the sway bar is, any thoughts guys. It interferes so much that theres no way it will fit.

its a last resort as of now though, but its an option

anyone know how that works.

Found this out for myself a few weeks ago... I have 1mm of clearance between the oil pan and the crossmember and 1mm of clearance between the hood skin and the intake manifold... I had to remove the hood skeleton where the IM is... did you have to do the same?

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If so how did that work out?

As for the accessories I'm trying to find a manual PS rack that will fit the S13 and give me a bit lower effort, I really don't care if I have ps or not, though it does make drifting a bit easier with it.
I am planning on doing a vh41 style front mount alternator, so you could try doing that with your accessories... I've been eyeing come of the billet stuff that summit racing sells and wondering how hard it would be to fit one of those kits up to my motor or alternatively, just build one to fit the vh.
I would also really like to do electric water pump, some of the ones they sell for the earlier Z's look like they are awfully close to working.

Today I get to fabricate headers, should take me a week i think.

I'd love to post up a kickass article on the homepage, if you don't mind shooting some more pictures and filling us in a little on some more details...

Add a link to NICOclub to your site!

...even the HITMAN is on MySpace

Stacey Lynn Childs 1970-2007... Love of my life, my best friend, Heaven's prettiest angel. I miss you so much.

thats fine with me, email me at mopsalvage@aol.com

anyway heres todays progress

Got the hard part out of the way , drivers side primarys, its not optimal as i would like but now i get to concentrate on the collectors

Friggin' sexy... I'll shoot over an email this weekend. This will make a GREAT article!

Add a link to NICOclub to your site!

...even the HITMAN is on MySpace

Stacey Lynn Childs 1970-2007... Love of my life, my best friend, Heaven's prettiest angel. I miss you so much.