How much vacum do most of you see at Idle mines around 10, Im curious cause my brakes seem really weak. also I should be hitting the dyno on the 10th of august at the nissan meet in PA so I will keep everyone posted.

I will have pics soon.

 

Congrats and another thing, you must be the first owner to pull off a successful swap...

 

SC'ed with MEVI ,I'm at 16-17Hg

According to the Chilton's manual, spec is 17-22.

Although I've found most people get 22-24Hg.

And I'm losing 3PSI of boost somewhere!

I'm thinking you have a vacuum leak.

IanS

 

Is this post for real???

Did you actually do a sussesfull engine swap?

Congrats.

 

Id love to hear about ur experience.. Im planning on doing something according to these lines..

 

Yeah he did an engine swap, vq30de to a vq30det. Good work Robert.

 

10 is way too low, it might neet to be broke in a bit. Bit 10 is BAD. With DET IMHO 17-20 hg, you may have a bad vacume leak some where.

 

SLCI30 are you going to Richland PA for the nissan meet.


Mardigras thanks for the #s and where can I get that J&S timing control.

 

congrats dude!! alot of talk about engine swaps but u're probably the only one that really did it

 

Woohoo!! About time Rob. I can't make it to the meet on the 10th, I gotta work. I'll come over someday and get my boost ride Oh yea... when's our bbq at your place

 

Wow, that took like what? 4 months? Good job.

 

- What's the OEM compression ratio on the VQ30DET?

 

I think it's 9:1

 

i thought it was 10:1

 

I sent you am E-Mail with details.

 

Congrats Rob, Idle vacuum should be 17-20in/hg. Sounds like you have a leak. Good luck.

 

Nope, our VQ30DE is 10:1. The JDM VQ30DET has a 9:1 ratio so that it will work better with boost.

 

is he running with the actual VQ30DET or just the internals from it?

 

What exactly is the VQ30DET? What car is that from? Thanks

-Jon

 

Where can I get a VQ30DET???

 

Im using Internals, heads and intake manifold.

The VQ30DET is out of a Y33 Cima (JDM Q45) and good luck finding one they arent too common.

 

What are hp/tq specs on that engine? Where did you get it? How much $$? Sorry for all the questions...thanks!

-Jon

 

280hp/285tq I got the engine from yo its ok for around 2k.

 

Nice numbers. What does the "T" stand for?

-Jon

 

Turbo

 

Haha.... is right! Just one turbo? How big is it and how much psi does it produce?

-Jon

 

He asked about the DET not the DE. 10:1 on a factory turbo engine would be retarded.

 

Stock turbo looks to be a T3 I installed a T04b in place of it. I think stock is 6-7 psi.

 

don't forget the Cedric/Gloria turbo

 

got Idle stable at 1100 and now at 20 on vacum.

 

When do we get to see pics? (of the engine itself and the engine in the car) Is that engine made for a FWD car?

 

NO its not for a FWD but I changed internals into my original block to make it work

 

What do you do about the engine fan? You are a real tropper to do an engine swap like that. I wish you the best of luck in the future.

 

I completely changed everything to stock Maxima on the front of the block like timing covers and pulleys

 

So you didn't just swap the engines? I know it's RWD and it won't work but did you put VQ30DE parts in the turbo engine or vice-versa. Will you be getting the 280hp/285tq numbers???

 

Finally got Idle set and 20 inches of vacum. Put it this way it runs easily as good as it did with a 100hp shot of NOS and Im only running 8-9 psi. It also sounds awesome. It drives and sounds stock till about 3-3.5k then boost kicks in and you can here the whistle.

 

How did you set your idle and fix the vacuum?

I'm interested in knowing if that might help my "problem".

IanS

 

I had a vacum leak where my friend welded the intake and that was leaking bad enough to affect the idle.

 

How much did it cost you all together? seems like putting a RWD engine into a FWD would be alot of $$$$$$....how much was it all together with changing the internales and everthing? I would love to see what that car runs at the track since the other turbo max out there never runs his car

 

I got about 4k including everything else I got to help prevent problems.