have you seen this.

[partymonster 975]

I heard someone droped a rb into a g35, have any of you seen this or have pics. If you have some information about that post that to.

[Joe]

i know of a RB26 powered 350z and G35 coupe. no pictures, or information.

if you are thinking about this project, the physical part of the swap wont be too increidbly hard. custom mounts, driveshaft, etc.

the electrical is where it gets interesting. if i was doing it, id rip everything non-essiental out and just run a custom gauge cluster and such.

[jrsink]

...definitely!

[partymonster 975]

Ya I know someone who is thinking about it, I brought up the idea and he liked it.

[Joe]

it would be an awesome swap...for a show/race car.

if its his own vehicle dont even consider it. the emissions factor alone makes the car worthless after the swap.

[partymonster 975]

Its his third car and he wants to have it as something he can race with and take to the track. He already has a 1972 porsche 911 and a BMW 5 series. So this is for fun. He will try to do something about the emissions if he gets it.

This is going to be almost like a race car. If he goes throught with it I will post pictures.

[Carl H]

if you can make the vq ecu run the rb then you may be in buisness......

[FAST-DATSUN]

It fits but you need alot of wiring and fab work, but its BAD. but its race only in all 50 states do to emissions

[rbsileighty]

So if it burned clean it would be legal? Granted most inspection places probably wouldn't notice it was a old motor in a new chassis...

[Joe]

So if it burned clean it would be legal? Granted most inspection places probably wouldn't notice it was a old motor in a new chassis...

no

OBD2 (1996+) is a computer scan. technically if the emissions computer cant connect to the car's ECU you fail. now some emissions places will then just put it on a sniffer test but not all. its important to know that its illegal even if it passes a sniffer.

[240sxed]

I remember I saw pics on I think it was eithe zilvia or freshalloy, it looked cool but it wasn''t very smart upgrade and money wise. You can get a vq to run pretty damn good by adding a supercharger, or a twin turbo/setup. Plus In the future theres gonna be a lot of advances for that engine. Im almost positive they're gonna come out with a GT-R version thats based upon that engine and turboed.

[Joe]

nissan hasnt decided what the new GTR will have.

its rumored for a twin turbo v6, supercharged V6, or big V8. nobody knows, even employees. they are being very tight lipped about the powerplant of the new GTR. i have friends who work at the proving grounds, and corporate nissan. nobody is talking.

[Spazz]

This is just me talking out of my A$$, but it would rock if nissan would explore the possibilities of doing another production version of the rb30 block, in the gtr

[enginerd]

This is just me talking out of my A$$, but it would rock if nissan would explore the possibilities of doing another production version of the rb30 block, in the gtr

That defintely won't be happening because the old RB series motors were having problems passing new Japanese emissions. As mighty as the RB26 is, the engineering design behind it is very dated. There's at least one shop out there running an RB26 350Z, I just can't remember which one. There's also another one running an SR20. I'd have to agreee that it wouldn't be worth the money/effort to swap the RB. That's moving backwards.

[gtrmonkey]

yea my friend got one done I will to get pics.