Livin9it2up1

agreed

Every word what you said made perfect sense to me, i love the way your mounts came out, i have reconsidered my mounts and have defiantly decided to reinforce them quite a bit, I am not worried about twisting the frame due to the fact that my original cross member is only 8 or less inches away, I am trying to decide what approach I am going to take to reinforcing them. I made sure to get the "#2. Now with a straight through bolt(single), with rubber in the middle surrounding bolt" mounts due to the fact of iv seen many of the glued type rip apart from hard launching and that just seems id be asking for mount failure trying to use mounts like that.

i still have mine off a 82zxt if you still need one pm me if so ill let it go for 50 shipped

I do agree with you i think the engine mounts are the what keeps the engine from twisting, so they would see most of the torque, aside from the rear end.

Thankyou i appreciate the science lesson as well! i havent seen that stuff in years. I am using rubber insulators that i pick out of a NAPA catalog and they seem to be working great! So the engine itself has some cushion, I have driven the car already and it feels really smooth and quite quick even being N/A

Thankyou! finally someone who has some faith. Hybridmorotsports bought the car with a 2jz already installed and he basically redid the entire swap along with most of the car. I have personally ridden in that car and it is extremely fast, and felt very smooth.

less heat more bending, my torch ran out before i even got anywhere with it thats why i said some heat ha. but i guess thats good to know! i guess running out of gas was a good thing! You all are probably gonna find alot of flaws in this project. There is Probably going to be things that your not going to like. Please remember this car was built on a pretty low budget and im doing what i can with my resources and funds available. I'm not going to be shocked if things break later on, or stuff starts wearing out. This car is strictly a project that i hope one day in the future that i could get back on the road.

I based the idea off of a friends cars mounts, it has a 2jzgte in it and i believe last dyno resulted in close to 600 HP

yeah thats what it seamed like i had to offset it anyways just a little bit to clear steering components... yeah basically.. i bent it with a lot of force and some heat

As to my method of aligning everything i just hung the engine in the bay and fine tuned the angle and alignment with jacks until i got it right. I measured from the bolt for the crank pulley to the rails to get it centered in the engine bay. At first i was going to go with the beta Motorsports kit but i decided against it due to the cost of it. So i went with the idea of fabbing up my own mounts. i had 2 options, first being make a cross member and building mounts off of that, second being coming right off the frame rail in the engine bay. For the sheer cost of things and simplicity i went with coming off the Frame Rails. I can only find picture of them before i boxed them in, but the show the gist of how i made them. By the way i made them out of 11 gauge cold rolled steel. I went down to my local Napa and went through there catalogs till i could find a rubber mount that fit my needs, needs being as skinny as possible to save room. They Rubber mount is literally 2 millimeters away from the steering shaft. I didnt use the Beta motorsports kit

Yessir! eventually when the money is their

Thanks guys! it was pretty easy to make the ffim i went to my local metal supplier and bought a piece of sheet metal i believe it was 4ft x 5ft 11 gauge sheet and just went too town on it. took about 2 days i would say a total of 6 hour to complete. it runs great now! i just need an exhaust to complete!

This project stared back in march after i melted Cyl 4 in my l28et from a clogged injector. after talking to a friend who owns a shop for a couple of hours i came to the conclusion that i was gonna do a 2jzge from an sc300 built up, i was eventually going to Na-t it. I'm not looking for big numbers probably around 350 400 HP. I have been taking pictures the Entire way but haven't had the time or patiences to post them up on here. please dont make fun of my stuff, i know some of it probably doesn't look good but i spent a lot of time getting it all right. Thankyou guys for the positive comments but please keep the negative ones to yourself. (unless its something that i overlooked that could probably help me) The day i got the motor Head removed for cleaning and Complete check Block Painted and halfway assembled EGR Block off plate Mounted in the car, i know its a little crooked there is not a tranny mount at this point. Custom intake manifold Wiring fun love that intercooler too bad i had to trade if for a new ecu wiring complete

looks really good! your on the right track by repairing rust and damage first then doing your swap! i went wrong there! Have you decided what motor your going for?

I got one from a 1982 280zxt that i used on my swap that i blew up back in march but it worked flawlessly. asking 65 shipped I still have the Turbo Oil pump and oil pump drive shaft as well if you are gonna do the turbo distributor. if you interested please call me at 7276565019 or email me at Livin9it2up1@aol.com

I got it working finally! I just used the stock 280z alternator plug and wired the 2 wires from that directly to the alternator plug, and the last wire, i believe black and yellow runs into on of the plugs by the ECU and i wired that to switched ignition power. Started er up and ran 14.15 volts right off the bat. Thanks for the help everyone!

well ill have to give that a try!

And thats the only wire i need?

Iv done it! iv successfully swapped a 2jzge from a 93 sc300 into my 280z, i have it running perfectly with the factory 2jz engine harness and computer, now the issue.. i cannot for the life of me figure out the wiring for the alternater. any help that can be given would be really appreciated, thank you in advanced!

i got one from a 1982 280zxt if thats what your looking for. i want 50 + shipping if interested feel free to email me at Livin9it2up1@aol.com

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If nothing else answers you problem. Did it blow in the identical spot? stupid answer but have you checked for warpage or a crack in your head in that spot?

ahha thats an awesome theory!