project nisstang

[nisstangGuy89]

Hi everyone im new to the forums and I just wanted to say hi and intoduce my 302 swapped 240sx to everyone and show you my car progress and story. Its a 89 240sx I bought 2 years ago rolling shell for 300 buxs with title. My friend owns a 93 240sx with a blacktop sr20det he did himself and thats when I fell inlove with the nismo family. But anyways for some random odd reason I decided to drop a 302 n mine. I bought the motor for 200 buxs with 42000 stock orginal miles. Put a cam in it added a weiland xcelerator intake holley 650 dbl pump some short headers with 2.5 exhaust aod transmissiin with a shift kit. Slicks and some spray. For now its gonna be a drag car its not 100% finished but will be within the next week or 2 and as soon as I figure how to post pics I will show you what progress I have done and hope you all enjoy. Til then I hope you all are asexcited to see it and running as me

[AZhitman]

Way awesome! You and WDracing are gonna get along just fine. Let's see some pics!

p.s. Instructions on posting pics are in the sticky at the top of Gen Chat.

Welcome aboard!

[nisstangGuy89]

Thank you AZhitman for the info on posting pics. here are what pictures i have for now. enjoy Lots of pics lol

this is when we i first got the car and we set the motor in to get a idea of what we were doing.








Here's the oil pan we fabbed up for the beast. my buddy did a good job on it.







Here's the car with 28x10.5 15' slicks on it and pics of the car and tunnel work we have done im still spott welding in the rest of the tunnel thats what ive been doing the past 2 days.









what it looked like with a big gapping hole just the motor sittn bolted in



you can fit any transmission you want with the tunnel we made lol







the battery box and power switch im installing





the transmission crossmember we made heavy duty 2' square tubing



shifter and the switch's n gauge bezel i made up



the power plant





after i finish the tunnel were going to bolt the motor and transmission in and drill the holes for it to bolt down the cross memeber i alread have the driveshaft made ill post pics of that in the next day or so of it all bolted in

[pepesilvia]

awesome job man. how much power do you think this thing will be putting out when you get it on the strip?

[nisstangGuy89]

Thanks man. Honestly i dont know im guestimating around 250 260 on motor and well probly run between a 100 shot then go up from there lol. I finished the tunnel today and painted my crossmember n drifeshaft and seem sealed and undercoated it this evening ill post some pics here shortly and tomorrow after work were puttn the motor and trans in and driveshaft

[nisstangGuy89]

welded seem sealed and undercoated








Drive shaft and crossmember painted up



from everthing ive got done which btw is a budget build lol. were predicting low 13s high 12s and i guess well see if we can get into 11s with the spray.

[AZhitman]

I approve of these shenanigans.

[WDRacing]

That's one hell of a trans tunnel you got there! I contemplated a 302 swap awhile back myself, I've always loved the way they sound.

Here's a link from our Hybrids section. This guy, Maik21 has a metric ton of stuff done to his, all diy fashion. He started out carbed, then went to EFI.

my-240sx-ford-302-engine-changes-lots-o ... 92093.html

[nisstangGuy89]

Thanks you guys. Yea tunnel is massive but it works well and there is plenty of room to work in it lol. Ive seen his post beforr im staying carb. Then in time going blow thru with a turbo. Everything you see is diy we made all the parts. Plus my neighbor n best friend have ford parts gallore like you wouldnt imagine they build some fast stangs. But ill have pics of the motor n transmission bolted in tonite for you guys too see. I plan on having it finsihed by this weekend.

[WDRacing]

Thats excellent. I'm most interested in things like motor mounts and how well the oil pan clears the subframe.

Welcome to Nico btw!

[nisstangGuy89]

well guys said i would have the motor and transmission in tonite only thing i really didnt do is drill the holes in my crossmember so that will be tomorrow lol. and thanks for the welcome WDRacing idk if i said the same for you AZhitman. here are some pics

thinks it looks mean as hell lol





here are the motor mounts WDRacing basic mustang mount plus the the square brackett and spacer we made for it. this i know can be made better and is one of my things to do but this is my first build ever lol so yeah lol...





the underneath my slick is flat lol need to invest in some tubes.





like i said still need to drill the holes for the crossmember thats about for that driveshaft is bolted in too as u can see lol.



and here is the oil pan WDRacing. it came out pretty good just had to modify the oil pickup some.









that's all i have for tonight. tomorrow is another day for updates lol hope you all enjoy.

[laxands13]

Looks awesome! always nice to see custom work and all that goes into it

[WDRacing]

Let me know how many quarts your pan holds vs non modified.

[pepesilvia]

well guys said i would have the motor and transmission in tonite only thing i really didnt do is drill the holes in my crossmember so that will be tomorrow lol. and thanks for the welcome WDRacing idk if i said the same for you AZhitman. here are some pics

thinks it looks mean as hell lol

thats looks awesome! I wouldn't want to put the hood on just to show off the engine

[nisstangGuy89]

Let me know how many quarts your pan holds vs non modified.

im pretty sure the factory oil pan not modified holds around 6-6.5 and the modified 1 we made holds around 5.5 quarts now

well guys said i would have the motor and transmission in tonite only thing i really didnt do is drill the holes in my crossmember so that will be tomorrow lol. and thanks for the welcome WDRacing idk if i said the same for you AZhitman. here are some pics

thinks it looks mean as hell lol

thats looks awesome! I wouldn't want to put the hood on just to show off the engine

thanks it does look awesome ill probly drive it around like that for a day or 2 lol

[Chaluska]

i love seeing a small V8 in the 240 engine bay... what a mistake this was.. lol



i swear this thing is larger than a mustang cobra engine... makes it extremely "easy" to work on anything.

what are you going to do about your accessory drive? you keeping or installing ac?

[vas13hatch]

Swweeet project man! Just wondering if you are going to keep the stock gauges and stuff and how you plan to wire it up.