I just finished swapping the DE-K motor into my 98. Some of you may have seen my other threads about my old motor that got hydrolocked. I this DE-K motor for $550 with 7k miles.

Everything seems to be working perfectly except I am not using any IACV, the A32 IACV is pluged in electrically but not getting any vacuum. It idles fine after adjusting a few things but I still plan on making a plate for the A32 IACV or just buying one from someone here. My tach seems to be acting up, it does not read the correct RPM when the car is cold.



Ill have some more pics later.

 

Did you use the 2k ecu and wiring harness.

 

Nope, still on the stock ecu. If I was going to swap ecus, I would just do the 3.5 swap w/ ecu.

 

That's funny about the tach signal. Nothing about the DE-K is different in that respect.

 

congrats man

 

Anything that I can check? The problem only seems to happen when first starting up while the car is cold. It will happend for about 1-2 min of driving and then be normal. It bounces everywhere, goes to 0 for a few seconds but the car drives normal.

 

... he has the 00VI and all. Nice chief. All you need is an aftermarket ECU and start sending those FI 4 cylinders home.

 

 

what is a de-k? what are its specs?

 

2000-2001 Maxima:
VQ3.0DE-K Variable Intake
3.0-liter V-6
222-hp @ 6,400 rpm ,
217 lbs.-ft. @ 4,000 rpm

 

Damn right on the side of the srteet, thats dedication nice...

Btw you had no trouble with the law doing that?
What was the reason why you didn't go full 3.5?

I was going to do that swap but when I heard about the 3.5 swap, I had to jump on it, the best swap hands down...

 

Very nice. Not sure how you pulled it on the side of the street

 

Curbside Maintenance. I love it. Looks good

 

Just tell the cop your changing your washer fluid O_O

Looks great, now you need something to get that VI opening

 

Wow, that is freaking awesome-changing an engine on the side of the street.

 

on the roadside engine swap

 

err I mean 3 ...
Any future plans?
5M or 4AT?
Looks to be 5M ..

 

+4 .

No way I would even try that where I live currently...

 

The reason for not going with the 3.5 is because I wanted to do the swap on my own and it probably would just be too difficult for me to do, also, I needed a running car asap. This was my first motor swap and im surprised that everything seems to be okay. Maybe later I will do a 3.5 but plans now is to put the nitrous back in and maybe get a blower

Yes its a 5psd, new Spec Stage II clutch

 

Vq35 swap isn't that hard as long as you get Tilley to drill the cams. I'm mostly a noob wrench and I did the swap myself. Took a while but got it done.

Do you feel the difference between regular 3.0 and De-K 3.0?

 

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Most likely I would have been able to do the 3.5 swap but its a bit more to figure out and I didnt have the time. I didnt really start beating on the motor yet, Ill give it about 500-800 miles for the clutch to break in and also the engine, plus the RPM switch for the VI is still on the way.

 

Congrats on the swap, my Max needs a new engine soon...

Just curious what points did you bolt the engine hoist chains to lift the motor out of the engine bay? Also im guessing you unbolted and dropped the tranny as well?

Reason I ask is that I don't feel comfortable removing the engine by taking it out from under the car, like some shops do. Id rather do it the way you did and not worry about jacking the car up that high.

 

Quick question, is the a/f and timing the same on 4th and 5th (3.0) gens?

 

Also, what did you have to rewire?

 

I decided to remove the transmission before pulling the engine out because I thought it would just be easier that way. For the mounting points, I used a bolt on each side of the motor, the passenger side motor mount and the top of the bellhousing.

 

i think thats the best part.

 

congratulations, great job..

which ecu did you use? was the 2k engine cali or fed spec?

i would have done it exactly the same way, by lifting the engine out
did you rent the lift from autozone?

 

For electrical, there is not much to do at all, I had to splice the DE-K injecter plugs on the stock harness and extend the TPS plugs because it would not reach. From what I remember, that was it.

 

Anyone know the purpose of the Fuel Rail Off-Fitting? I have seen it mentioned before, from what I can understand, it is needed because 00-01s have an intank fuel filter so the fitting replaces the regulater on the fuel rail. If someone can help me out with this, that would be great.

 

To remove the fuel damper on the DE-K rail, thats what the fitting is for..

Doesnt really make a difference that I know of, im running the DE-K damper, has no vacuum connected to it tho.

 

I don't think you can get the engine out the top with the trans still attached. Maybe you can but it'd be close. I removed the trans. Trans removal takes all of an hour or so.

Nice work on the swap. It never even occurred to me to swap in a DE-K when I did my new engine until like literally a few minutes after I had purchased the DE... then I was like WTF did I do that for?! Good job swappin, and the streetside engine pull is awesome haha.

 

He forgot to take a picture of himself standing in the empty engine bay.

 

Yea, forgot about the in engine bay pic, remember right after I dropped the motor in

Did anyone use the stock MAP/Baro solenoid valve and EVAP solenoid valve? I plugged the stock harness into the 5th gen ones which are located on the VI manifold.

I am having some problems, the tach gets jumpy but the engine RPM is fine then sometimes the car shuts off and will not start up right away, have to wait at least 5 min and it starts up. Seems like it is the crank sensor I will check that out today or maybe because there is no IACV. I scanned for codes and im getting no O2 sensor circuit activity, Map/BARO switch circuit and Fuel Temp Sensor circuit malfunction-?? Im going to work on the codes today and see if I can get it all sorted out.

 

What's an approximate 1/4 mile time with the 00vi or a DE-K swap on a 4th gen 5spd?

 

I don't think anyone has run besides Krismax and that was with the 00VI'd VQ30DE.

 

OMG, I just saw his sig and it said 13.82s for the 00vi. That's faster than a 5th gen 3.5L.

 

But his car has crazy weight reduction also. That's the thing with comparing modified cars that don't have the same configuration, you can't.

 

The 00VI is good but it takes alot more than that to pull off that time.

 

I wasn't aware of the fact that he did weight reduction. I'm just curious in knowing what a ballpark 1/4 mile time would be for a normal 4th gen 5spd 00vi with the typical bolt-ons.

It seems to me that the top end power of the 00vi combined with mods would work wonders for the 4th gen 1/4 mile time.