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With the used supra market ever appreciating, you will find enterprising individuals such as Martin XAT from the Fresh Alloy forums stuffing the JDM uber-mill into a wide variety of chassis that can shoulder such august output.
When swapping 2JZs, the same formula is often applied:
The VG series nissan motor - especially the variety found in the Z32 300zx chassis is one of the most ornery hard-to-work-on knuckle-scraping gotta -remove - the - motor - to - change - the - sparkplugs powerplants ever made. If you've ever worked on a Z32, you'll know what we're talking about.
Which is why we find Freshalloy user 300sx's VG swapped S14 postively charming. the fresh paint and a positively clean swap didn't hurt either (we're suckers for clean swaps). Equipped with a single Precision T61, this car laid down 519hp to the rear wheels and runs 11s.
It's been a well established fact that the front axles can be disconnected on Evolution 7/8/9s, effectively making the car RWD. Thats precisely how Rhys Millen tweaked the Evos in the Fast and the Furious 3 Tokyo Drift to get them to achieve lateral motion.
Those crazy JDM nutjobs have taken it one step further by changing the orientation of the motor to make it more like that of a natural FR (that's front-engine-rear-drive) vehicle. The stout 4G63 which used to run east-west is now positioned north-south with the intake and exhaust tracts resembling those of your run of the mill S/R-chassis nissans and 2JZ Toyotas. By the looks of the sheet metal fabrication involved, this is most likely not your garden variety swap.
EvolutionM member 94AWDCoupe brings to us another example of our favorite combination - big hp in a small package.
Fondly dubbed "the little yellow beast", this mirage runs a stroked DSM 4G63 complete with AWD drivetrain and puts down over 600hp to the wheels!
Picture of the motor after the jump.
After several trial runs, lean fuel conditions, and headgaskets, the stars finally aligned and allowed the owner to rip off 621hp on the dyno while running 93 octane and alcohol/meth injection. At 2560lbs with cage, full interior, and working air conditioning, this is as streetable a sleeper as you can get.
Sure, we all know that SR powered 510s are, pardon the pun, a dime a dozen. User onesicklambo on EvolutionM is taking the swap several steps further by discarding every single piece of 70s engineering except for the chassis and associative body panels. In the place of the vintage 35 year old gear is a modern interior, full coilover suspension, HID lighting, and of course a potent turbocharged 2.0L from the japanese market silvia/180sx.
If you've performed any manner of work under the hood of a Z32 twin turbo Z, you'll understand the love-hate relationship we have with its 3.0 liter twin turbo V6 - the VG30DETT. With two of everything - heads, intake cams, exhaust cams, turbos, intercoolers, throttle bodies, the VG was ahead of its time. The beauty of such a symmetrical design skids to a grinding halt when you realize the whole damn mess barely fits in the engine bay.
As a result, the 300zx ranks as one of the toughest japanese cars to work on - every single task is an excercise in bloodied appendages and excessive cursing. Need to replace a turbo? Drop the motor. Replace an 02 sensor? Drop the motor. Replace a spark plug? Drop the motor. You get the picture - the VG is an engine you want to work on OUTSIDE the vehicle.
In an attempt to set himself apart, one owner managed to pull off a fairly clean RB26 swap from a japanese market Nissan Skyline GTR. At 2.6 liters, some would argue that the RB lacks the torque and powerband to provide the locomotion that a 3700lb Z chassis requires. Others complain that an inline six would just throw off the balance of the whole car. When asked which motor they'd rather work on, we're sure which they will pick.
Member dfddfd2 on Team-Integra.net had a moral quandary.
I had a 91 NSX for about 18 months and loved it, but alas too expensive and worried me to death driving it. A rock chip would have killed me.