Does anyone have a picture of the complete exhaust layout on a 91 ?

 

Is there any reason you can't just look under your car? It's just the basic two down pipes that join into one pipe that goes into the cat and then out to the rear muffler.

 

could but i'm at work and i'm talking with a friend about an engine swap... the engine should be a direct bolt in, but i wanted to check that. So i wanted to to know where it leaves the engine, and which side it runs on till it exits the the back right

 

What engine? Trust me the exhaust is the easiest part of an engine swap. You have a 3-gen right? There is no direct bolt in install unless it's another VG maxima engine. No Ve, VG30DE, VG30-T, no VG30Dett, RB26DET, VQ, VQ3.5, VG30SC or Q45 engine. So what engine did you have in mind?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff92se
[B]What engine? Trust me the exhaust is the easiest part of an engine swap. You have a 3-gen right? There is no direct bolt in install unless it's another VG maxima engine. No Ve, VG30DE, VG30-T, no VG30Dett, RB26DET, VQ, VQ3.5, VG30SC or Q45 engine. So what engine did you have in mind?

Actually it is none of the above...honest;y it's a secret right now. My boy has a friend that did it to his car and it was very close to a direct bolt in, the only thing he thinks is that there may have had to havebeen a stretch in the exhaust. But the engine i'll be putting in uses the same motor mounts, but i'll be swapping the axles, ecu, and tranny and all that good stuff. So basically i was just wanting to see if there would be some fabrication needed for the exhaust routing

 

Why is it a secret? If you have to change the ecu, tranny etc... I don't see how it's gonna be "bolt in". Exhuast fab is really easy. Any exhaust shop can fab pipes. So what engine is it?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ObsidianIce69
[B]

 

Maybe it's a transversely mounted 426 Hemi

 

Hey, hey, hey now! Give him a chance. So far he's asked about cv joints, brakes, fiberglass, springs and we all gave him advice right?

So why not share what great engine he is gonna put in as a bolt in swap?

I wanna know.

 

Heheh! I wasn't trying to make fun of him, I was just thinking of "what's the most kick-*** top-secret, but wildest engine swap I could think of?"

For the record, I'm really interested too (and would've helped had I any expertise to lend).

 

hmmm...a hemi...think i could fit one in there? what would that do to my weight distribution?



There really isn't anything all that special about the engine. The only sad part is that i will no longer have a V-6. It will be a jap-spec sr20det. I've got the hook up through one of my friends with a shop here in austin. One of his friends did the same swap on his third gen about a year and a half ago

 

Cool! What kind of torque does those things have? I know they have about 200hp stock and can to 300hp w/ mods easy. You will probably need the entire sr20det wiring harness to work also, new tranny, cv joints custom exhaust from the turbo down pipe to cat(again should be easy). But shouldn't you be talking to the guy who did the swap and ask him? If anyone would know, it would be him.

 

The engine has 211 ft/lbs of torque. Yeah this was for my own, i'll 'll be talking to himm later, but i'm at work and i was kind of curious now...besides..gotta lose the newbie tag!

 

Wewll now that people know what do they think about the swap?

 

I think that is a *hot* idea...wish you best of luck with the tranplant....:

 

cant wait to see pics when your all done

 

sounds great
I'd love to see pics once it's done


many people will doubt you though until it's done because people come on here all the time saying "I know so-and-so who did this engine swap" and have great plans, but it never turns out
prove everyone wrong
good luck

 

I'm being positive as usual.

 

Well, personally I wouldn't be going from 6 to 4 cylinders, but hey, there are no rules in the quest for horsepower!

The BEST thing about switching to that engine is that there are probably a lot of performance parts for it and you could get really hardcore with it.

I just hope it makes enough low-end to get the Max moving okay (not that that matters in a race).

Best of luck and keep us updated!

 

Yeah i will post pics as soon as i get it done but it won't be for a while, i want to take care of a large credit card bill, right now, but it will probably be around january of February when i have it done. And pics will be posted!

 

It starts off with 211ft/lbs of torgue...more than i have right now!! Besides you have a max...you know that there is not a whole lot that can be done to a single cam engine. There are a ton of performance parts for the sr20det though. Besides the swap gets rid of my auto and gives me a 5 speed...and a pretty unique vehicle too i might add. But i'm not sweating it. I have no intention of being one of those people who spends all their time talking about what they're gonna do to make their car tight. I'm working 2 jobs to get what i want!

 

This may be a dumn question but what car is the sr20det come from??? This is pretty interesting to hear of new ideas for a new max....

 

Oh hey...before everyone starts thinking of doing this a sr20det WILL NOT....irepeat WILL NOT pass an emissions test....jap-spec engine. I live in a town where they don't test emissions and also my boy has a hook up for inspections!

 

Oh yeah and the engine was in the Silvia and the Impulse

 

Peak torque looks really nice and heathy at 211 ft/lbs, but going from a 3.0L to a 2.0L, you'll lose a lot of off-idle low-end torque.

3rd gens are pretty heavy cars. If you do this, you'd want the boost to come on fairly early for good drivability.

 

Yeah i'll be losing some but at 2000 rpm i've got 110 and then 170, by three. I'll live with being a little slow of the line, after all...i've got no limited slip anways.....yet. Overall driveability shouldn't suffer very much at all