Engine help??? pleas

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XDriftKidX
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my friend got a jp engine and its says its a vg30 turbo but we dont know what car it came from it would really help us outhttp://forums.nicoclub.com/zer...d=194#

Modified by XDriftKidX at 10:19 PM 2/7/2008
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FoxFire
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looks like a maxima engine to me

turbo cedric vg30 mabye?

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why is the source fo the engine important? that version was no sold in the us, but stri it to the liongblock and it's interchangable with the domestic version

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XDriftKidX
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because the setup is differentlike the oil pan ,intake ,alternator,and some other suff

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So take off all the external crap that's different and swap over the US stuff. Done and done.

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thank you zbum and evailky, so is this engine better, do u think we would need the comp from the japan model

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i have seen this motor, non turbo in the pathfinders, seen on trucks on spike tv

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XDriftKidX wrote:because the setup is differentlike the oil pan ,intake ,alternator,and some other suff
which is why I said to strip it to the longblock?

And no it's not the parthy motor, but the same vg30 block and heads, the pathy and all other N/A's have higher compression pistons and different cam profiles

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its a Gloria or Cedric engine

front wheel drive engine...

is the oil pan sump in the front? (near the main pully braket)

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yeah the oil sutmp is in the front but swaped it and its turbo


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