AceJime Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Just bought a VG30E engine from oxford for my '88 pathy. Just wanted to hear from anybody who's already done this. Tips, suggestions, things I should do while the old engine is out... That sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I hope you bought the ECU and the oxygen sensor to go along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceJime Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 I'm gunna go down and get an ecu from the pick and pull down the way. And I can get the oxygen sensor from any autoparts store I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY1PATH Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 x2 if your going MPFI otherwise take care of your TBI manifolds and intake, you'll need it to swap over. Get some Gunk Engine Brite(a few cans) and spray all the stains down in your engine bay. after it sits for a few give the heavy areas a scrub and let sit some more. then give all areas (even the un-coated ones) light scrub and hose everything down. Swap out your old fuel and AT lines(if you have em) and inspect eveything for corosion or damage. THis will be your best easy acess time for that kind of maintainace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceJime Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 I'm putting the whole engine in as is... Have a look, get an idea of what I'm dealing with. http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=26929 So you're saying I'm going to need 2 oxygen sensors...?? Correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceJime Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 I'm mostly worried about the electrical... Engine will be here next week... I'll probably go down and see if I can pull an ECU about monday. Am I going to run into any electrical issues or is it pretty straight forward...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z31_hardb0dy Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 its only one o2 sensor on the vg30e. i dont think these had 2 until the later years. im doing this swap except mine is a vg30ET swap from a 84 50th AE 300zx... kingman has done it twice on his, once using the trucks harness and plugging the ecu into it, (AND) repinning what was needed for the new ecu... the other was a 300zx harness pinned to the truck in a few spots..... im doing option B with the z harness and from what ive figured out do far youll have to pin a few things from the z harness to the trucks efi harness for ease. so you dont have to sort out all the wiring from the truck and splice in the new efi thru the truck...... ive been racking my brain on this for a few weeks now but i think most of the pins youll need to run is pins 3,5,6,10,34,108 and 20 plus put the fusible link to the battery. ill be making a post once its all done detailing what i had to do as far as pinning goes, once i got that done ill be doing the turbo too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z31_hardb0dy Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 oops i meant run those pins to the truck harness, then the fusible to the battery.... i was burnt out on FSM reading at the time i posted that one. my bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I took the easy route and just swapped the harness and everything over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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