scottc

Except, the VQ30 manifold places the throttle body facing the transmission. If used in a RWD car that would make the TB face the firewall. Hmmmm, would probably need too much reworking of the manifold to make it useful.

Eagles are a great rods for the money. I have installed many many sets into 4cyl honda motors making as much power as you're planning to. If you are looking to make 500hp on a 6 cyl motor, i woudln't hesitate to use a set of eagle rods. The thing with eagles is they used to use smaller rod bolts (on the honda rods at least) a while back - but they have since (About 1-2 years ago) changed to ARP's that are the same size rod bolts found on the more expensive $ big name rods.

I thought about that - but it seems that the oil pan is only about 1-2" deeper than the lowered casting of the engine - so you really wouldn't save much by going dry sump.

I think i know the car you are referring to (silver 240 with the 350Z swap). I'd be interested to know why he mounted the motor far forward, and how much modification was needed for the front cross member.

Sure thing - what measurements would you like to know? The ones i can remember are (With the motor sitting on a flat concrete floor) - 29" from the floor to the top most point on the rear of the intake manifold (near the throttle inlet) - 26.5" from the floor to the top of the front of the intake manifold (closest to the timing chain) - 35" from the back of the block to the center of the stock trans shifter location (this could be shortened by modifying the shift linkage a couple of inches). - about 24" wide (+/- 1" since i was just eyeballing this measurement) without catayltic converters bolted up. Other things to know is that the oil pan sits towards the front of the engine, and not much deeper than the rest of the block/bellhousing (about 2" deeper). Also - the AC pump is run a seperate belt. The serpentine belt runs the other accessories (PS, Alternator, waterpump). The power steering pump could easily be removed and just use a shorter belt in a non-PS car.

I was thinking about this - but since it will be right behind the front x-member - i could make an addon to the x-member as protection for the oil pan.

So i measured up the VQ35 and the 240Z today and found the following: - will fit between the frame rails - will have to clearence the front cross member to clear the oil pan, although the engine shouldn't interfere with the steering rack - will have to move the hood latch and clearence the inner skelton of the hood to clear the intake manifold. - At ride height (with tokico springs installed), the lowest part of the VQ35 (oil pan) will have 3" of clearence to the ground, but will be almost centered near the front wheels, the rest of the engine will have 4-5" of clearence to the ground (for reference, my front frame rails under the floor pans are about 4.75-5" off the ground). - shifter on the vq engine will probably have to be shortened up a couple of inches to fit in the stock 240Z shifter location. Do you think 3" of clearence between the pan and the ground will be too little? Does anyone have any pictures of this engine in the 240Z engine bay?