I was looking up all the vq engines and came across this 1 then seen that some guy did a swap in an sentra. So is it possible to drop this motor in a 4g or 5g. What are your view and has anybody done this already?

 

IIRC the DE-T is just a turbo'd DE...someone correct me if Im wrong. I also thought those engines were RWD as well as JDM, so it would probably cost more to do the swap than it would cost to turbo your current motor.

 

Yeah its RW, i figured the same thing about the cost.

 

I think there are some differences between the FWD DE and the RWD DE-T, besides the FWD & RWD, but I cant remember what they are. It wont bolt right in tho, the block is different. It will be cheaper to just turbo the DE. I believe some of the parts from the DE-T, rods, pistons, etc. can be used in the DE tho.

 

The guy who did the swap in the sentra i guess made it into a FW, he sumhow has it sitting side ways

 

It would simply be cheaper to turbo the DE. What exactly would be the benefit of using the DE-T over the DE? The only one that jumps out at me would be the ability to use Nistune, and even then you would also have to swap over the DE-T ECU, and i have no idea what type of wiring that would involve if any. And if you really are willing to spend the money for a DE-T, it would still be better and cheaper to just do a VQ35 swap. Hell I'd imagine that even a full 3.5 swap would be cheaper than swapping in a DE-T.

 

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