V8 5.7 liter 300ZX

MexSiR · 05-06-2005, 05:34 PM

Hey all, Im back in Mexico. One of my best friends has a Civic EX 2001 and decided to build a car for the track and street. He bought a 300ZX TT, without the engine and transmission.

He just dumped an LS1 engine from a Camaro, 5.7 liter V8 305 horsepower, i dont know much about muscle car engines but thats what he said. He ran the car at the track and got a 13.4 in the quarter mile, which seems pretty good.

Im going tomorrow to his house, im going to drive it around for a while, it must be a beast, the bad thing for me is that it is an automatic. Ill post some pictures of the engine and the car in the upcoming days.

Peace.
MexSiR

1viadrft · 05-06-2005, 05:51 PM

gay....

DeleriousZ · 05-06-2005, 07:05 PM

blasphemy, he must be burnt!

k3smostwanted · 05-06-2005, 09:54 PM

i wanna see pictures but im with these guys...the VG30DETT has 300hp, we are tlaking a difference of 5 hp???

Zgringo · 05-06-2005, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by k3smostwanted

i wanna see pictures but im with these guys...the VG30DETT has 300hp, we are tlaking a difference of 5 hp???

Not only that but much heavier.

MexSiR · 05-07-2005, 04:07 AM

Well guys, the car did NOT have an engine or a transmission, here in Mexico it is really hard and expensive to buy a twin turbo 300zx engine. You can easily and cheaply buy an LS1, for a lot less than half the price, twin turbo nissan engines are very exotic compared to "Mass Produced" ls1 engines. Believe me, he wanted a twin turbo engine but it was just out of his budget. Ill bring pictures and car specs after i drive it, right now its 4 a.m and ive drank toooo much Coronas...peace.

-The Stig- · 05-07-2005, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by 1viadrft

gay....

Would you call my buddies 240z gay?

He's got a 400ci Small block Chevy w/ TH350 3 speed auto. Pushing around 450-485hp.

It ran into the 11s (I don't remember the exact number, think it was 11.5 but not positive) in the 1/4 mile on slicks and race gas along with open headers...

Gay? Yeah... sure is.

Zgringo · 05-07-2005, 11:48 AM

Hola Edgar, Coma esta? Toma usted el aeroplano para ir a Mejico? Deseo mucho hablarle, pero no hablo espanol bien.
I use to live in Jalisco 2 hours east of you in Autlan. I now live in Baja Norte. It was just too hard traveling to the US every week racing so I moved closer to the border. I'll be retiring this year from racing and getting red of alot a Z's and Z parts. To bad your friend didn't get hold of me, cause I have a turbo engines out of the Z31 znd Z32 I don't use and never will. I was very suprised when you said your friend had a 300ZXTT. Was it imported? The Gringo's don't understand the problems Mexicans have with cars in Mexico. I don't think there's 10 300ZX in All of Mexico and I own over half of them. What year is your friends Z?

1viadrft · 05-08-2005, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by RedNeck383

Would you call my buddies 240z gay?

He's got a 400ci Small block Chevy w/ TH350 3 speed auto. Pushing around 450-485hp.

It ran into the 11s (I don't remember the exact number, think it was 11.5 but not positive) in the 1/4 mile on slicks and race gas along with open headers...

Gay? Yeah... sure is.

As far as sexual preference goes... that's between you guys.

As far as that whole domestic swap in a Nissan: YES! Very Gay in my opinion and not just mine... to each his own. But I would much rather give mad props to someone who uses an FJ, SR, RB, VH in our lil' S30-S130's!!!

ExTrEmEDrIfT · 05-08-2005, 01:36 PM

pfft thts just a shame to the Z ....

Zgringo · 05-08-2005, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by 1viadrft

As far as sexual preference goes... that's between you guys.

As far as that whole domestic swap in a Nissan: YES! Very Gay in my opinion and not just mine... to each his own. But I would much rather give mad props to someone who uses an FJ, SR, RB, VH in our lil' S30-S130's!!!

What everyone fails to realize is in some countrys like Mexico it's very hard and costly to import cars and parts. In Mexico first you'd have to pay import duty, then for every state you'd have to pay to transport your car parts thru it, and by the time you got it to Mexico city the cost would be as much as the car just for a engine.
I was thinking of a Ford DOHC V8 or Northstar engine before I went to the VH45DE. The main reason I went VH is class rules require the engine be of the same mfg. as the body, and hooking up the transmission. Now I'm glad I went that way.
As for his 300ZX with a LS1 only having 5 HP more than a VG30DETT, golly gee, thats with a N/A engine. Bring it up to TT specs and guess what? Smoke time. The only problem I see is it will lose some of it's handling ability with the added weight in the front, but in Mexico 99% of the roads are straight, so I don't see any problems. And being the 300ZX is a little on the heavy side the added torque of the LS1 would be a major plus.

k3smostwanted · 05-08-2005, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Zgringo

As for his 300ZX with a LS1 only having 5 HP more than a VG30DETT, golly gee, thats with a N/A engine. Bring it up to TT specs and guess what? Smoke time. The only problem I see is it will lose some of it's handling ability with the added weight in the front, but in Mexico 99% of the roads are straight, so I don't see any problems. And being the 300ZX is a little on the heavy side the added torque of the LS1 would be a major plus.

you fail to talk about the money in turning a LS1 into a TT rather than taking that same money and spending it on the VG30DETT which is already turboed...

remember, anything you spend on one car you can spend the same on another. the LS1 will always take the 3.0L in the long run but it takes away the character of the car...yeah its different, yeah it original, yeah i wouldnt mind seeing it, yeah i would give the guy props for the work he did to do it....but NO its not the same and i would never do it to my car, just like i would never swap in a VH45DE in a 300zx, but im not gonna care if someone else does it.

i have nothing against it a long as it isnt my car. i figure you can do whatever you want to your car...if i like it, i like it. if i dont, i dont. its your car and if you like it, thats all that matters.

like i said, im anxious to see pics...but i still would never do it to my car.

probehtr300 · 05-08-2005, 05:04 PM

id rather drop a vh45 into a Z long before an ls1, but thats just me

DeleriousZ · 05-08-2005, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by probehtr300

id rather drop a vh45 into a Z long before an ls1, but thats just me

i agree... altho, i'd do anything in my power NOT to put an american engine into my beloved Z.... hell i'd drop a honda engine in there before i did an american one...

probehtr300 · 05-08-2005, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DeleriousZ

i agree... altho, i'd do anything in my power NOT to put an american engine into my beloved Z.... hell i'd drop a honda engine in there before i did an american one...

well i wouldnt go that far,
but the point is, use what u can get and its all good, im sure the guy with the LS1 in the Z wouldave rather used a VG too but its all good

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