I want a nice looking four-door SUV that gets good gas mileage and is relatively reliable but makes good horsepower as I'm a young speed guy. Almost a dead-on for the Pathfinder. My other car is a mustang, and the other one is a jeep. The Jeep only fits two of the five requirements, and to do a swap, it'll cost me an arm and a leg, and not be that much more reliable and be in a ****** frame, which ruins the first requirement it meets.
When it comes to SUVs, particularly ones that go off-road or face tough snow storms and get driven by teenage-'ooh-fast-car'-mentalities, they ought to have good low-end torque, so diesels are popular options for those who fit those wants. I personally, being the mechanic, don't like diesels for the lack of reliability they tend to have in general populace cars and for how dirty they are. That and diesel is quite expensive (even if it's efficient). My answer to solve such difficult questions is a positive displacement blower like an eaton. So what I want to do is place the ford 4.2l windsor block from an f150/ranger, it's manual tranny and t-case in a pathfinder and put the heads and intake (including supercharger) from the 3.8l SuperCoupe on top with a cherry and call it Fred. Suggestions, specifically those that include tips on if switching the tranny, t-case, or axles is necessary, spacial awareness, thermal awareness, or the like?