350z motor swap anyone?
 

hmm that would be a cool little swap... I would rather have the 300zx TT motor... I believe it is the VQ30TT

BTW I love the sound of the new nissian motors

would make alot of power, and sound awesome, but space may be a issue. Whats the weight of those engines?

300zxtt is vg30dett

damn straight :eek5::bowdown:

If it was easily possible that would be one of the first motors that I would consider for a swap. I love those sixes. That or an M3 engine.

But hey, if you can cram in a mustang 5.0...

not sure if an inline 6 would ever fit though, but it would be sweet to drop in a stroked Jeep I-6 if it was possible.

RB26 has been done, only once that I've seen. IIRC the 302 only fits because of its narrow angle relative to the 4.6.

It would be very front heavy, I also have doubts that the motor would fit.

This is my dream swap

The 302 and 4.6 are both 90�-degree V8s...the reason the 4.6 doesn't fit is because it's got two ginormous OHC lumps on top of each block. Too tall and wide.

It could be made to fit.

the vg is huge, i don't think it will fit

Thats been proving wrong, look at the weight of all the V8, it doesn't throw the weight off by much and using the alum heads on the ford help even more.


BTW about the Inline 6 motors its been done, a few times

RB26-done once,replaced with an RB25(not sure why)
RB20/25- done a few times, there is a post on CR with photos of one install
1jz- started never seem to finish(m.net)


V8 swaps
302- done million times
LS1- looks like it could replace the 302 for monster miata
lexus V8- seems be drawing some attention

V6 swaps
KL-VE swap- done once and not sure what going on with that..


That is all the big motor swaps I can think of.

I stand corrected, thank you.

that z motor has nothing on the '07 motors, they are truly kick ass. (and that almost costs more than the car)

If someone wants to buy my Titan it comes with a VQ56.

I think the new 3.5 nissan motors sound like ricey asshole straight from the factory.. but I guess thats just me.

Once I get my miata to the point I want it I'm making another '99 black miata w/ this engine. w/ dual gt35r turbos :D..... but this is once I get this one to the point I want it at....

the vq35de would be better than the vg30dett. those 300zx engines are huge and hard to work on in their big engine bays let alone a miata's. personnally i would go for the sr20det from the silvia.
oh and those nissan engines do sound BA.

If I ever have to replace my engine, I'll probably try to do this, especially now that I know some people that can do really good custom fab. n/a 300hp sound soo good. But I'm broke and my current engine is still not done yet

Seconding the sentiment that VQs sound amazing. I think the only motor on the road today that sounds better is the V10 in the new M5.

the v6 in my roommates s4 is the most amazing sound ive ever heard.

I really like sound of vr6 vw's, plus they are small, but I don't know what you would do about the tranny if you wanted one in a miata.

dude, the VQ is almost as wide as an ENTIRE damn miata. lol. I don't think you would have a prayer of that fitting between the frame rails with or without headers on it.

My engine is almost together.... I have the bottom end al together, now I just have to mount A/C and the belts and put it in the car.... after that is done I have to wire everything up... The suspension parts are all here, a depowered rack is finished. I now just hav eto find time to put it back together. Buy some -6an fuel lines to do a whole new return and feed line from the tank to the badass fi.18mm fuel rail that feeds 900cc injectors.
Good luck on your project. and hopefully next summer I'll be around the west coast so that we could race.....

convert the miata to FWD:gay:

and people say we drive gay cars now...just imagine if we started converting to wrong-wheel-drive....

good point...

if this is ever done, i want see some pics.

since the sr20 is fairly common the rb20 which has more potential would be cool....even tho its an inline 6 its only 40lbs heavier than the sr20