Okay well to start its a 1989 300ZX 2+2…
About 4-5 years ago the automatic transmission went in the car, my fathers owned it since '91 and as of now the car has 92kmi on it. Last fall i was looking in the garage for something, looked at the Z just sitting there, did some research, in november I went to New Jersey and picked up everything I needed to swap her over to a 5 speed. Finished her up around March after having to deal with a lot of bullshit and not being able to work on her a lot at a time.
As of now the car still sits stock, other than a 2.5 inch catback with a Flowmaster Super44
What deffinately going to happen:
just purchased my Full NA2T Swap:
- T3 Turbo
- Exhaust Manifold
- ECU
- Oil Pan
- Oil Return Line
- Water line
- 270CC Injectors (will probably end up getting 450CC injectors before i put the motor back in)
- Front turbo crossmember
- Driver side turbo engine mount
- All intake pipeing
The nice thing is that this came off an 85 turbo, the 84 T3’s dident have water cooling and burnt out very easily. The 87-89’s came with the smaller T25.
-Cams: Once I figure out a good grind spec I’m going to have my cams reground by shnieder, or ill try and see if anyone is selling a good aftermarket cam with the specs I want, not many places still sell aftermarket cams already to go for the Z31
-Walbro 255LPH Fuel pump
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Gutted intake plenum (the vg30’s intake plenums are some of the worse deisnged ever)
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Intercooler
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Gut out all emmisions and pretty much everything besides motor, altenator and power steering
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Either an aftermarket 2.5inch turbo downpipe or a turbo relocation pipe that will put the turbo where the AC unit is and then have a custom downpipe made
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Full prothane kit for suspension, also engine/tranny mounts
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Z3R springs with a 1.5 inch drop paired with Bilstein HD’s
What I really want to do may or may not happen because as many of you know I have a kid due in febuary, and i wanna get as much done motor wise as i can before the kid gets here…
If I can find the extra cash the T3 will be replaced with a T3/T4 60-1 , Limited Slip Differential, Satans turbo manifold , Nistune and a few more things
Mainly my realistic goal by next summer is around the 300+ whp range… as anything over 300whp is limited by the turbo. My ultimate goal is around 500-550+ whp which will probably turn into a larger number as i start working on the car over the years…
I can safely make ~450whp on the stock internals without worrying aobut stressing anything to much, but if I got for that I mine as well forge the internals and shoot for a little higher of a number, its certinaly do able and not hard just requires money.
Heres a few pics from the tranny swap (it was inluded when i bought it but no I did not use the clutch that came with it, bought a new kit)
There was a problem when I torqued the flywheel bolts, I torqued them at minimum specs being 72ft lbs, but no placed specified to use this spacer which caused the bolts to strip, I ended up tapping out every hole in the crank.
The second time we got it to go, father took it out (theres no sound for whatever reason, but it was open headers and OMFG it was loud)
A little burnout action because matt was bored one day and wanted me to do it… its not special
Exhaust clip: (the muffler rattles the microphone on the camera so i moved it as far back as I could and it still cuts it off)
The muffler still sounds raspy at higher revs because of a leak and my cat… thatll all be fixed once the snail is on
