is it the windstar or aerostar that has the vq30de motor? and what years were the motor in it? i found some windstar motors and they cost a way lot less than a motor from a maxima. i just need spare if i blow up mine.

 

What? Subscribing...to see if this is true...

 

This is news to me

 

Got to be a different motor

 

WTF??

 

The only ties that Ford and Nissan have is that the VG30DE came in the Mercury Villagers.


WTF??

 

Fixed at no extra charge...

 

damn that sux then. got the g and q mixed up.

 

VILLAGER like the one sitting in my garage next to the Max. (SOHC version, detuned, only 150HP!) Have to drive it next week because the wife complains I only maintain what I happen to be driving!
The Aerostar, sitting next to the Villager as it happens, is a 3.0L V6 but RWD nothing at all like the VQ, and the Windstar has a 3.8L transverse FWD V6, also nothing like the VQ.

 

Im sure if Fords had the VQ in them then they would be 4894 times beter than what ithey are.

 

i cant say ford and na na naaaaaaa nissan in the same breath...see..i had trouble

 

It has 160 HP. And it's not that it's detuned. It's just that the heads and intake manifold are junk.

 

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No .

 

Why would two completely different companies offer the same motor in two different styles of vehicles?

 

Ford demanded the SOHC motor be non interference....in other words if the timing belt broke it wouldnt be bye bye engine. The result a less reliable , less powerful Fo-nissan junk engine.

 

i just puked in my mouth a little

 

naw you did not get it mixed up the nissan quest and the mecury villager are the same thing, now if it has the same motor as a maxima I am not sure but alot of car company share platforms and part
example the 86 plymouth ohmi ghs had a turbo mitisu motor and so did the ford probe or did everone forget

 

yeah, and what about the dedge stealth? Depending on what part you needed, decided what dealership to go with. Something like a ford motor, chevy tranny, dodge exhaust, hurst shifter, mitsu awd and some other stuff.
CRAZY!!!

 

Well the Villager is kind of amusing, it's very like the Max in many little ways. Like the cornering lights, just the same as on my Gen IV. To me, it's as if Nissan built a minivan version of the Max, and then Mercury decided it wasn't flashy enough and added a lot of typical Mercury luxury items. Secretly I am hoping the SOHC engine will explode so I can drop in a VQ35 with harness, ECU and all the gubbins.

 

they used vg33's, nissan and ford had a joint project on the quest minivan/ windstar / villager. Lol the funniest thing was when i told my sentra buddy to look at the head light on his dads quest. It said FORD