Ok, so i've been contacting this guy about buying a VG30ET. He says it's a jdm engine that he bought but check this out, look at the intake manifold, it's like the maxima manifold. Anyone ever see one of these???

 

yes its the JDM VG30ET...it comes stock like that in Japan, along with Euro spec (Nismo) cams. perfect for a low boost non-intercooled setup.

 

cool. it doesn't have the ecu and the harness is cut short to the engine and he's selling it for 500. sound reasonable? being jdm it probably has pretty low miles.

 

wow .. can i have one plzzzzzzzzzzzzz wow...

 

Hmmm surprise.. it's a jap spec VG30ET. nothing special about them, other than the manifolds make the turbo a direct bolt on.

 

yeah, i know, i know, it won't/probably doesn't pull any more power than the ones over here. could even pull less, who knows. but it seems like the best one i've found so far.

 

actually it is said to make ~215hp as opposed to the US 205hp(so I've heard) thanks to the Euro spec cams and addition of the power valve.

 

oh... well, cool! wouldn't happen to know if it has the same block as the 87-89 vg30et would you?

 

ALL.. let me repeat that... ALL Single cam VG engines are the same block.

 

ugh. i meant the crank. i heard the crank in the later vg-t was better

 

as far as I know the only difference is the post '87 VG blocks had cranks with a longer "snount"(where the pulley mounts)

 

hmm... ok. thanks for the info.

 

Internals on all vg engines are basically the same, no one crank (vg33, vg30ET, vg30E) or rods is better than the other. It's the vg30DETT from the TT Z car that has forged stuff. The vg30ET is good, very durable. 220 hp is easy from these JDM engines. And conveniently have the same intake setup as or VG maxima's. Nice find, just expect topay JWT $500 to program your ECU to work with it. Turbo for aroung a grand if you work on it yourself is a great start. I need one soon.

 

Since it is the turbo engine, wouldn't it have the knock sensor? I would need the 300zx ecu then right? I could just get one of those from JWT instead.

 

do you guys know if a stock 300zx turbo ecu would work on this engine? thanks.

 

ok, i found it. a z31 dude said the ecu would work fine on it. he also said these pulled 230 stock