hole pluged where my collnt temp goes, engine swapped, could it be pathfinder motor?

[Guest trey11691]

ok im havin troubles runs rough, pops, looses alllll power when warm wont go over 15mph. i just started doin this. i went to change the coolant temp sensor and cant find it. well i have just looked at a pic of where its supposed to be, and there is a hole with no threads and its about 3/4 inch deep and pluged up. wll i bought the car and the engine had been swapped from another z or so i was told........ it has the Z intake and the coolant temp was never even hooked up. could i have a pathfinder or truck motor with the corect intake????? please help i dont no wat to do!!!!

[FlatBlack]

pictures?

[naviathan]

Spell Check?

[Careless]

it should definately be threaded. that is the hole.

if it's not threaded, you will have to remove the front timing cover, and tap the hole. then insert a helicoil (timesert) that fits the proper size of the coolant temperature sender.

[Guest trey11691]

turns out the engine is a maxima, on that model same engine just coolant temp sensor is in the intake! well i got the 300z intake you could see the problem...... i drilled it out, turns out it was tapped, just filled with dirt...... it works! just got timin belt on hopefully runnin tomoro! wish me luck