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oh wow.... i never noticed that before. it looks like he's using the 94-96 engine which actually has quite a bit less potential than the 90-93... hmm... this could be interesting.

poor, poor maxima...

Lost has done a VH45DE swap into a Z32 and use the TT tranny so he has made up a bell housing conversion plate to make it all work out. He can have these made for us but to do so he's looking to get at least 7-8 people together who would want the piece. Otherwise, he can't really sell it by itself and will only come with the kit he has for the Z32 (which is badass in itself... conversion plate, twin turbo headers, oil pan setup, etc. very nice work there man!) If any of you guys are looking to do this at all, please reply in here so we can possibly get something going. The conversion plate thing has been giving me many headaches as I know it has a couple other guys looking to do this swap so this will solve many of our issues. My main problem is there are no local machine shops since I live in the Middle-of-nowhere, KS... kind of bites... lol. So yeah, just post a reply so we can see how many guys are interested and see if we can possible get this going. Thanks guys!

here's their website: http://www.zeitronix.com/ i don't have one personally so i'm really sure of the details on them but the website might help out. sorry i couldn't provide any more info.

speaking of wideband setups there is a group buy going on at my350z.com for a zeitronix wb02 setup... that thing looks beautiful imo. http://my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105051&perpage=20&pagenumber=1

you should be able to do it for less. everyone said i'd have to spend 2000-3000 to turbo my maxima but i did it for under 1500. if i did it again i could have done it for less than 1000. i even know of a guy who probably spent less than 500 turboing his maxima. granted he had a lot of parts, knowledge, and skill from working on buick gn's his whole life but basically... its possible to do it for less.

not sure if the pathy engine is the same but i know on my maxima engine the heads have 4 holes for exhaust studs instead of the 2 holes on the 84-86 Z engine from what i can tell. not sure on the 87+... most likely the 87+ did get the extra two holes (even though they aren't used for some reason...)

just depends on the size of the hole and cap and the threading of the cap. if i remember correctly the Z uses two piece of metal instead of threading to hold it on so i'd say it wouldn't.

they are the only way to properly measure the air/fuel ratio. they are very, very accurate and generally will help you tune your car to perfection and keep from blowing it up. i personally have a plx devices m-500 wide band setup on my maxima and it works perfectly. helped me get the perfect air/fuel ratio when going wot and when cruising. i highly recommend getting a wideband setup if you're going to modify your car at all with any form of forced induction. it'll keep you from blowing up your engine every single day. http://www.plxdevices.com

actually, i would have to disagree with you there. i think the centrifugal s/c's are the dirt of the forced induction methods. think of it this way: turbo - lag, full boost from point of spool up to redline and will generally stay there unless you have an oversized turbo (these days with vgt and ball bearing technology lag is almost becoming a thing of the past) roots - near instaneous boost, sometimes will lose boost at the top end, a bit harder to aftercool centrifugal - lag, no full boost until redline, when you shift boost will drop a bit since its being spun by a belt. when it comes down to it, imo turbo>roots>centrifugal. the turbo is the most efficient of them all no if's, and's, or but's. my idea for an awesome s/c would be a cvt centrifugal. if you could do a cvt type gear box in there you could have instaneous boost like the roots supercharger and keep full boost to redline. it still probably wouldn't be as efficient as a turbo due to parasitic losses but most likely have full boost throughout the whole rev range would probably make it faster than most turbo cars. also, since most centrifugal s/c's are designed like a turbo compressor you could easily aftercool it. for those that might be getting confused on the aftercooler lingo - an aftercooler is the true term for what people have come to know as an intercooler. it doesn't mean water to air or anything... aftercooler is just as it sounds... it cools the air after the compression of the air. intercoolers are generally used on very exotic setups and were used on old WWII airplanes if i remember correctly. an intercooler sits inbetween two compressing units. i believe it was volvo who screwed up and made everyone think an aftercooler was an intercooler. damn you volvo!! lol in the end, as i said above, with the VGT (variable geometry turbine) and ball bearing technology a turbo can easily have next to no lag which would make the cvt s/c un-needed... most likely it'd come down to personal preference and space required. centrifugal s/c's tend to be a bit easier to put in an engine bay since they don't have as much piping... but on the other hand could also be difficult since it must be driven by a belt. each application has it pros and cons so its up to whomever as to which setup they want.

NISSAN MD92 ENGIN DRA 6cy 9203cc 220hp/2800 9.2 liter 6 cylinder??? edit: NISSAN PF6TC ENGIN DRB 6 CYL, 12503CC, 350/2100, L6 NISSAN RE10 ENGIN D B 10CY,18892CC,370/2200HP FIT CW

took him what... over 7 hours to eat? then some 19 year old, 100 lb. college girl came in and finished it in 2 hours and 54 minutes. she's the first one to beat the 3 hour challenge.

hmm... looks like it is legit. RD28E http://history.nissan.co.jp/ELEMENTS/MECHANISM/laurel9908_engine4.html http://english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/20403/ ~ 100 hp ~ 131 ft. lb. of torque SOHC Diesel (duh... lol) 2825 cc 21.8:1 cr Bore - 85 mm Stroke - 83 mm One of the cars it came in is the Nissan Crew (2nd link above)

hey, you have a pm. me and another guy are very, very interested in the adapter plate for the tranny.

if you have the 5 lug hubs you might be lucky. i know the mustang cobra rotors are 13 inchers and have the same 5x114.3 bolt pattern. for our maximas we've been using some custom brackets to use the Z32TT 30 mm caliper on the cobra 13 inch rotors for some extreme stopping power. it's probably one of the best bbk's you could setup... especially for the price. you might look into that option. i'd also check out http://www.z31.com there is a lot of info there for z31's.

That John Mellencamp had put together back in 1979. Supposedly it had a wide body kit, a 454 with 3 4 barrel carbs, and the guy that bought it off of him said the thing had to at least be putting 700 hp to the wheels. He said that you could be going 100 mph, punch it, and burn the tires. At the time he was known as John Cougar but signed it as John Mellencamp so no one knew who that was and the guy didn't get as much money out it as he probably could have. Anyone ever heard of this? A friend of mine in Indiana talked to a guy who said he owned it. Figured at least someone on here would know something about it.

I'm messing around with a romulator on my Maxima right now so I may try the same the Q ecu. Hopefully if the thing does freak out with the auto tranny removed I can find some way to program it not to freak out. At the moment I'm mostly just working on removing stuff from the Q. I need to pull a bunch of wires out and make sure I get all of the wiring correct so that everything runs correctly. As for the engine, before I put it in the car I need to replace the timing chain guides as the plastic ones broke. Once I get those fixed I'll be able to put the engine in the car and start making mounts for it and such. I'll also be able to start figuring out a way to mount the tranny to the engine. Work has been kind of crazy lately so I haven't had much time to work on it but its finally starting to slow down so I'll be able to work on it much more. Hopefully I can have it finished by spring.

reason why i'm using a manual tranny is only because i despise auto trannies and will never use them. for fitment it might be a bit tight using the Q auto tranny but, i'd personally stay away from it. its actually a pretty unreliable tranny. heck, the one on the Q i bought was already going out. one thing that is nice though, is the bell housing is removable on the Q tranny, which seems to be something that is very uncommon on nissan/borg warner trannies. this makes it a bit easier to use different trannies. the problem i'm faced with is the 300ZX Twin Turbo 5-speed tranny has a non-removable bell housing. i'll most likely have to make some sort of conversion/spacer plate to mount the tranny to this engine... but... i get to use whatever TT clutch and flywheel combo i want. i'm really leaning to getting a multiplate clutch for it.... but those are definitely $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

at the moment i don't know of any that are direct bolts ons, however you should be able to make a converter plate for most trannies and others that have a removeable bell housing you could possibly modify the stock Q45 bellhousing to fit on there. if you put the Q bell housing on a different tranny you will need to cut a hole in the side of it for the clutch fork thing. also, you just have to make sure to get the bell housing the correct length for the input shaft to sit correctly in the clutch. i actually recommend using a 300ZX Twin Turbo transmission because the 300ZX TT flywheel will bolt right up to the VH45. this assures that you have the correct spline for the clutch and everything instead of trying to match everything up using different parts and such. once i get mine mounted i'll let everyone know how i did it. i have a few ideas of how to make it work but i just need to get the time to try them out.

i have tons of ideas to help the aerodynamics but its most likely going to require heavy body style changes to get good aerodynamics. i don't really mind though as i'd rather have performance over style. once i get my Z going i'll start throwing on a bunch of stuff using the ideas of others, if everyone is cool with that, and i'll try talking to some people at that school to get it in the windtunnel.

Yeah, I registered the site and just threw up a main page off of my cardomain site so that people would know that here was at least something there. I've had no time to mess with it though. Sounds like you are real busy, definitely no time for a website. What's cool is to actually find a friend or someone that can just throw one together for you. That's the real way to go when dealing with websites. They can be such headaches sometimes and if someone else can deal with them, more power to them.

that's a good idea. a rotary might actually fit pretty well with the porshe g50 transaxle. you just need to find the total length of the transaxle and add that with the length of the rotary.

yeah, doing a website is definitely time consuming. i haven't had any time to actually do any work on my website yet but hopefully i'll be able to soon. i'm still learning all of the ecu stuff. definitely going to take me a while to get it all down perfectly. i saw that you mentioned the VH weighs 100 pounds less than the VG. what's the weight of both engines?

lol "kinda quick". do you have a website with your race z and such on there? i live about 2.5 hours away from olathe. i've been up there a few times and it seems like a pretty nice place.

damn.... that's going to be one badass Z. definitely take lots of pictures and get some videos of it in action once its done.