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Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:23 am
The 300ZX is a car that requires a lot of study. The layout of everything has rhyme and reason, and you can see where Nissan engineers used up every little bit of space as possible in the engine bay and inside the fender areas. As I have said before, the Z32 series 300ZX was built "around" the VG30DETT. Unlike the S chassis cars or even the Skyline series of the same time period, the 300ZX was not for the timid. A lot of the development that went into the Z32 can still be found in the present day Nissan RWD cars, and it goes without saying that S chassis and Skylines (up to a point) benefitted from some of the developments pioneered by the Z32. This does not mean that you can just crack open a Z32 and instantly know your way around. A lot of people who just don't know how much is involved with maintaining a Z32, let alone build an S chassis car with a VG30DETT power plant, think it's an easy swap and something that can be done without a lot of additional tooling and fabrication expertise. If it were that easy, it would have been done long ago, and we would have seen 240SX with VG30DETT in greater numbers than with SR swaps. Where else are you gonna have 300 FWHP on tap from the factory (280 with AT)? Not with the SR or the CA, and definitely not with the RB. Anyway, this is all hindsight. The fact that the Z32 was built around the engine (heat soak issues; a PITA to work with; no room to access anything; must drop engine just to do things we take for granted with inline 4 and 6) and the high price tag led to its demise. We see that Nissan learned from the mistakes of building a car around an engine with the Z33 and G35.
In summary, if you can do it (the VG30DETT swap into S chassis), then do it, BUT don't come to me asking for specs and how I did this and that. I took the challenge last year and busted my a$$ to do it just to make a point with that prototype (RIP; trying to get it back, though). If you want my kit, then wait. Yes, I am as slow as a snail, and there were reasons for that previously, but now that I am doing my thing full time, we'll see things cooking along.