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AutoX.mp4 I'm not particularly good at autox as you can see here, but it made for a fun video.

Good new and bad news! Good news I am still here and happy to answer questions. Bad news there was only one car I liked better than the 280Z and well... It was cheap and I could resist, but only one project car at a time is in the budget, so the Z is off somewhere in Texas now. The skyline is currently getting an LS swapped into it, so if you were wondering which way I'd go if I did it again that answers that, but the LT is still good and its much more unique than an LS. As far as engine mounts, I'm not sure whats available now. It would certainly be cleaner to fab a custom upper mount to use with the DD lower mount. The mount is already poly. That being said, you probably wouldn't want it any lower than this, since the holley oil pan was already flush with the bottom of the front crossmember. You can see the oil pan on the left here, its already pretty low. Doing it again I would move the engine further back. If you make a custom upper motor mount you can avoid the interference with the LT vacuum pump boss, which should allow for the engine to be moved further back. I think I blamed the high pressure fuel pump as a reason to not do it, but I was just lazy. The only difference between auto and manual would be preference and the engine and ecu are already design for an automatic transmission. So a few tuning things will probably go easier with an auto and you wouldn't need a bellhousing spacer. This was my first(ish) engine swap, and as long as you keep it simple (no A/C, power steering, "while I'm at its", etc) the Z is really a pretty easy car to swap these engines into. LS vs LT is a hard one for me to answer for you. I picked an LT because the LS swap is quite common on the Z and I wanted something different. LT has complications the LS doesn't have, and fewer online resources and aftermarket parts. It's not a huge difference though. The pedal I used is an LS corvette pedal (19417903), they are compatible with the gen V ecu. HPtuner and probably any other tuning tool has an option to quickly calibrate the throw of the pedal.