Its coming close for me to do the swap (end of April), so I want to make sure I have the necessary items. Which gaskets should I replace when everything goes back together? Only reason I ask is that I understand some smaller gaskets are reusable.

Also I've read about people dropping their oil pans and stuff. Is that necessary or is that only when they are changing to 3.5 timing equipment?

I hope all goes well with the swap. In two weeks I am getting a base dyno to see where the car is right now with just the y/bpipe and VB mod. Hopefully as soon as the swap is done I get the after cam and SAFC dyno done to see what these cams can really do.

 

You'll definitely have to drop the oil pan to get to the bottom, outer timing cover, bolts.

 

Cool thats one gasket I would want to change then for sure.

 

The oil pan doesn't have a gasket per se. It's liquid gasket maker that needs to be applied there. But what i'd replace are the 2 oil pan gaskets that go between the oil pan and either the outer timing cover or the rear main seal retainer, the 2 o-rings that go between the pan and the block/oil pump, and the 2 o-rings that go between the inner timing cover and block. I'd replace the water pump seals as well.

 

what exactly are the cam spacers for? if I'm using the whole vq35 engine why would I need to spaces the cams unless I'm suppose to use part of the vq30?

 

1. Don't hijack threads.

2. Read the 3.5 swap stickies at the top of this forum.

 

If ur doing a full car rewire to run this whole vq35 with its corresponding ECU, then u dont need the spacers/ adapters, otherwise you will need them in order to run the 3.0 ECU because you will need to swap over the 3.0 timing equipment for the ECU to make sense of whats going on. Now read the stickies (such as this one http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=507639) before you ask your questions on someone else's thread

 

Thanks my mouth dropped. 3.5 engine swap has nothing to do with what I'm talking about