Planned mods

VQ30DE engine from Maxima (1995-2001) or Infinity I30.
Maxima MT ECU (I'm still trying to figure out if the ECU will talk with 6-Speed and the HUD)
350Z / G35 6-Speed Manual swap.
Custom aluminum 1-piece drive shaft
300ZX VLSD
Custom aluminum oil-pan
Custom fitted PathFinder Intake Manifold
Custom fitted G35 exhaust manifold
Additional chassis braces
target weight : 2400LB dry weight.

Anyway, here are the pics

It winks

Someone told me the window was gone.
All it needed was to use this switch.

Not knowing how to wind up windows cost a lot of damage.

Like this

Some ricer tried to wire in woofers in the trunk.

And put on this POS, and painted the red car a maroon.

Dash was cracked with rain and Sun.

The KA has bad bearings, it still cranked and ran till I got my hands on it and took out the parts. I'll be selling them.

Nasty wheels.

I have three of them and one tear-drop if anyone wants to buy or trade.

Not the same but similar engine, similar weight.


Modified by Soravia at 9:21 PM 4/3/2008

It should be very possible because I just saw an FC3S with a VG30 crammed in it over the weekend.

I paid $650 for that car plus T&T. I get to use the warehouse space for additional work in return. Not bad for something with 150K on the odo.

This looks worse than mine when I got it... weeds growing... Good luck man, it looks like a fun project none the less.

PIGNOSE LOVE TILL I DIE!
KA-DE till i blow it up soo i can replace it with another

Aaron

I have a thread in the for sale section

Black Subaru club check in

240SX Factory Service Manuals

the vq35 also bolts to a rear wheel drive transmission for sure, what tranny are you gonna use? what engine mounts are you gonna use?

Link please. Are you selling harness and MT ECU?

again how are you gonna mount the tranny to the motor, will it fit, how much will the adapter cost you? on the maxima is the stock tranny part of the engine mount system? if so where and how are you gonna mount the engine in the 240?

If something doesn't fit, I make it fit. So fitment is not really an issue. :P
The transmission mount is a stock KA24DE transmission mount made to fit.

Transmission just needs to fit in at the crank shaft. If the bellhousing doesn't fit, one can always weld in a bell housing that fits.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/N...Q30DE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Stagea

I got a great idea for that wing - same thing I did with mine...

BEFORE

AFTER

Good luck w/ the project!

As for swap itself. This guy had it down to 2040LB.
http://videos.streetfire.net/v...9.htm

But I'm not going that far. I mean I still want hood and interior. I'll be fabbing and replacing parts with aluminum from junkyard to reduce weight.

Aaron

Mods to do-

G35/350Z oil pan
G35/350Z Starter
G35/350Z Clutch kit (or throw out bearing spacer mod)
G35/350Z Aluminum flywheel
G35/350Z Exhaust manifold
Maxima Engine mount welded to KA24DE old mount
PathFinder intake
Alternator relocation
KA24DE Power Steering pump relocation
Clutch Pedal and master cylinder install
Interior swap from my other S13
Z32 VLSD
Aluminum drive shaft

I'm trying to do this all for the price of a VQ30DE engine and trans from a 350Z ^__^

Modified by Soravia at 10:44 PM 4/3/2008

Modified by Soravia at 11:02 PM 4/3/2008

But it also uses digital cluster control for odometer while the older VQ30DE uses analog odometer.
Because I want to keep the HUD setup from my 240sx SE coupe, I've decided to go with earlier VQ30DE and ECU setup.

Earlier VQ30DE cluster

Newer VQ30DE-K cluster.

The newer Kizen engines are also a few hundered dollars more expensive. I think I can put that toward better intake and exhaust instead. I'll probably end up making a custom intake manifold out of the stock intake.

There were a few Maxima and I30 but the engines were too expensive and in poor shape. I'll probably look else where.

That's why I'm not letting go of my S13. ^___^

Now I started looking deeper into the intake manifold.

The difference between 1995-1999 Maxima and 2000-2001 Maxima is that the newer model have better flow on the intake and exhaust. So I looked even further into that and found out that Pathfinder with VQ35DE engines have similar intake design that is dual-stage. Nothing fancy like VVTL or anything but it helps in base performance of the air intake to make torque and high end HP.

Notice that there is a 180 degree bend on the longer stage route for the low end torque.
I'm assuming that eliminating that would help even better with flow.

I'm planning to get a Pathfinder intake, cut it up and make smoother through out the longer bend and larger flow through the shorter bend.

VQ35DE (RWD) lower intake manifold.
Left - Non-RevUp, Right - RevUp.

I'm going to save myself all the trouble and go for 1996-1998 manual ECU. Instead of NATS, I think I'll do something else.

The V6 3.0 Liter with potential 250HP!

Water Pump.

Upper oil-pan needs to be changed.

Starter sits on trans side?

Oil filter is where it shouldn't be, at the front on a RWD.

Intake manifold taken off. It has 6 bolt holes but only 4 are used to secure the manifold.

Intake manifold has oval ports, not great for intake tubes but good for injection port.

Manifold gasket is a rubber. 1/4" thick rubber.

PCV hose connection to the intake manifold.

IAVC and all the rest are all in one plate right next to the throttle.

Inside of the throttle body. Do you see what 96K miles of having EGR next to throttle does?

Option 1) Ghetto Super Ricer. - Cut into the firewall.

Option 2) Rich Super Ricer. - Buy Kinetix Stainless Steel manifold for $900.

Option 3) OEM Hood Cutter. - Buy a stock 350Z intake manifold and cut 2 feet hole in the hood.

Option 4) Budget Fabber. - Cut the stock soft aluminum manifold and weld in tubes.

Option 5) Super Fabber. Machine Throttle, Manifold, IAVC flanges on mild steel and put them on custom tubes.

Which is the best idea?
I have the budget for all of the above options except Super Ricer.

Modified by Soravia at 12:19 AM 4/23/2008

Here are some progress.

This is the original manifold.

It has this nasty bend restricting air flow.

So I used this.

Results.

Now the inlets are ready for mods.

On Ebay, you can get those engines for $250 range plus shipping. I jut got something close by for easier return shipping if the engine was shot dead. Luckly, when I pulled out the dip stick the oil was pristine. Someone changed oil reguraly before they got t-boned. :P

here is the low down of the projected cost.

VQ30DE engine = $300
5 Speed ECU = $50
Wiring (usually not on the engine) = $100
MAFS (usually not on the engine) = $50
350Z Aftermarket Exhaust manifolds = $100
Fabbing the intake manifold = $100
Fabbing the motor mounts = $50
350Z upper oil pan = $120
350Z Clutch Kit = $300
Custom Aluminum Driveshaft = $300

The rest is for 6-speed 350Z transmission. Hard to get at that low price but not impossible. Or I could just fab the bellhousing on the KA 5-Speed onto the VQ. All it takes is drilling out the aluminum anyway.