calibeater

That's bad ass, I love it. Got any pics of the A arms and how you built it?

Lol this is crazy, I literally just bought a waggy front, stock waggy springs, and the guy threw in all the calmini sas kit so I'm getting ready to do the same thing. Just starting to do more research on it now though lol, I wasn't planning on doing a sas now but a deal popped up and I couldn't turn it down.

Congrats Steve!! Maybe with all this pres people will stop refering to my WD as a jeep or 4runner lol. But yea its awesome for you to get all this attention for your hard work.

Mine is a 87 with a 5 speed. and yea i was thinking about glove box area or something like that. Ill figure that all out when I have the wiring harness and can have a better idea about it. And Ill search and see if i can find that guy on here that did the swap.

I SAW THAT!!! Oh my lol, that thing is sweet. And yea I do have some smog laws here but I just passed so I have 2 years to not think about it lol. And if in 2 years its still being street driven, I can normally find a smog guy (through buddies with street cars lol) so Ill just do this and see how it goes. Well the engine Im getting from my buddy is a 9:1 vg30e and he bought the stuff to turbo it from a vg30et. but my engine is still great so I could use it and thought that might be a option. so onto my next questions, so you were saying that I should use a intake manifold off a 90+ pathy cause they build more power? and this guy that put a turbo set up on one with a flipped manifold, do you you if he has a build thread? and im thinkin about maybe putting the ecu somewhere else, like higher up off the floor so it doesnt get wet so that could work anyways. Thanks for the help so far guys! this is great info

Lol well I mean I figure the engines are so similar it's gotta be a decent swap, and I'm going to get the engine harness from my buddies 300zx so I'll have a wiring harness. And then just get a ecu from a Vg30et car and run it. I'm just curious if someone here knows a little more about it so I know what I'm going to get into. I mean I'm not doing it right now but maybe start on it in like 2 months when I'm starting my new job. But I need to start doing my research now.

Hey guys/gals, so as I was partying at a buddies house over new years, a interesting proposition has come up. So my buddy has a 84 300zx that he put a Chevy ls in. Well he has the Vg30e from it, now the kicker is he also has the turbo parts (minus ecu) to pretty much make it a Vg30et that was also available for his car. Well he told me I could just have the engine and all that if I wanted to use it. So that brings me up to some questions..... So IF I decide to try some sort of swap, should I just swap in the entire engine with turbo? Should I pull apart the two engines and put one together using both parts? Or just go on living my life lol. Also does anyone know what I'm lookin at as far as swapping the wiring over? And then I can just find a ecu off a turbo car and run that? I'm in no rush but I want to start getting some opinions, I mean this deal popped into my lap and the engines are so close to each other so this could be nice to put in my pathy one of these days.

lol and to think when it hit 25 the other morning I was pissed. Guess Im too used to the Cali life lol

Oh My!!! lookin good so far, i wish we had patrols over here in the US lol, that way we could use some parts on our pathys and keep them 100% Nissan

Ive ran a 40 series, a 4 inch tip right off the cat, and now run a magnaflow on my latest WD. The flowmaster had good rumble, the pipe i made for after the cat actually sounded a lot better than you would think but sweet jesus, its pretty loud. and my set up i have now I love. The magnaflow sounds good and doesnt mess up flow (you can see through the muffler) but quiets it down quite a bit. You can def hear it but its not super loud. So it comes down to how loud you want to be lol.

hmm, well then i think it should work then. i mean he still has the old one but it just isnt working right so he asked me and i wanted a good answer for him lol

So I am helping a friend but do not know an answer to this, has a 88 pathy and needs a throttle body. found one for him but its listed as for a manual trans and he has an auto, other than it not having the ports for his cruise control, would it work and he just not use his cruise?

I second the code check too. when ever i have issues thats one of the things i check to try and narrow down what it might be.

Oh, and not sure if someone already mentioned this, but maybe you could use like a Nissan Armada style rear susp. its center diff and is beef enough to survive a v8 so i bet you could get it to work lol

well im having trouble finding another article i saw years ago but i have seen a few IRS nissan trucks before so i know that its been done before. here is one pic i was able to find. Now i know that there has been a couple fully independent hardbodies out there before, im trying to find the other one but you get the idea from that pic. http://image.fourwheeler.com/f/59537439+w600+re0/Off-Road-Race-Truck-__44_Nissan-Hardbody-Prerunner.jpg

OH MY!! I am getting excited. any idea what it might cost yet???

if you need more room you could order some tubular upper control arms, i know that should give you a little more room. Also to get some more front lift on mine, i indexed my torsion bars, so right now my front sits pretty tall. But since your from Australia, id just get by with it and raid a patrol of some parts and SAS it. If we had patrols here in America, thats what I would have done lol. Prob even try to find a wrecked one and take the diesel/trans/transfer and front axle from it and put it all in, then youd have a very solid pathy

now im confused lol. see i always thought all the pathys ive had (87,88, and 89) were 20 gals, now the other day i was just getting to the E line and when i filled up it only took like 16.3 gals. so does this mean i have about 4 gals left as kind of a reserve or was i about to run out? Cause i was leaning towards that fact that if i remember correctly (i try not to get low on fuel) that i can keep driving past the E line for awhile. how far will the gauge go before you run out?

lol there is such thing as a end to a project?!?!? yea you should pick thier brains and see, who knows...........maybe one of them will have a hook up on some drivetrain parts for your project. and yea, im going to do my sas first then engine swap, but sas is going to take awhile since i want to do it right from the beginning. the other day i was hangin out at this mechanics shop my buddy works at (they let me use the lifts too ) and they were working on one of the dodge sprinter vans that had the small inline 6 diesel in them, i stared at it for a bit thinkin that its small enough it might work lol. but im not sure what prices you could find one for. wouldnt really work for a "all nissan" build either but it would be sweet too lol. and parts would be more readily available than any nissan diesel you could find over here. thats another idea i ponder about in my spare time ha ha