Potential 510 Wagon project..

[Guzubulu]

 

 

 

For future reference, the 300ZX oil pan won't work if you have a flipped crossmember. Also, neither the intake nor exhaust will fit the car. Most use the intake/exhaust from a 200SX. 

Yes, the previous owner said this as well. He gave me a Maxima oil pan + exhaust manifolds, and said if those are put onto a 300zx motor it'll bolt right up.

 

Flipped crossmember is more for an SR20. Hell, easier to do a 240sx KA. 

 

Stay with it. Cool car. 

My original plan was to go KA! Those engines are seriously awesome for the money.

 

No reason you can't use the flipped crossmember with a VG but it will take a couple extra parts. The 300zx is a rear sump oil pan. You will need to get the oil pan and pick up tube out of a Nissan quest/mercury villager or an Infiniti m30. Those are both front sump versions of the vg.

Also, vg33 is the same size externally, can be pulled in most pull it yourself junkyards, and can be run on the vg30 electronics. Why not take the displacement bump if it's the same cost? If you're junkyarding your whole swap, you could pull the engine from a pathfinder, snag the pan from a quest, and dist and electronics from an obd1 vg30 and put it all together as one engine and not pay for all the extra unneeded parts. Take some planning but it would work fine. VG33 intake manifold might also be a good option since the 200sx are hard to find. It barely sticks out the back of the motor at all, so firewall interference should be kept to a minimum.

http://nissannut.com/maintenance/vg33e_upgrade/ This guy covers a bunch of the differences pretty clearly if you care to read more. Also looking up z31 vg33 upgrades will give you a ton of info.

Thanks so much for all of the awesome info! As long as the 33 uses the same motor mounts as the 30, I will diefinitely go that route. Don't see any reason not to. Thanks again for all the valuable advice B)