Engineuity

[AKIron]

Pretty cool.

[icepac]

I’ve been putting L28ET engines like that one in newer cars….if I can get past inspection.

https://flic.kr/p/2opoDcD

The white one has a 450hp version with a t3/4 hybrid turbo. 

I worked at “Z-shop of Miami” and “Datsun Dynamics” in reston, Va. so this is just what I do.   

One thing I will never do is swap in LS motors into nissans when I can build a nissan to over 1000hp or twice that.

[Devil 505]

That was a great video.

[xanax]

That was excellent!

 Thanks for adding yet another rabbit hole/time suck to my life, you jerk! Another channel I'm now subscribed to.

"I love wiring....the same way I love getting stabbed in the face 47 times." Classic.

[Getback]

 

Excellent video! Makes me want to start a project but then I think about the old Goodwill adds suggestion that you have your 10-year-old project towed from your garage.

[icepac]

I suspect that race driver “John Finger” is his grandfather and I recognize some parts manufactured by a “hybridz forums” member.   

https://forums.hybridz.org/

[RichardDarkwood]

I remember back in the 80's someone saying it was illegal to put a V8 in a Datsun 280Z

Never knew if it was true or not.

A friend in high school put a Ford 460 into a 1978 Mustang Cobra II, he had to move the firewall back 4 inches to do it.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

I remember back in the 80's someone saying it was illegal to put a V8 in a Datsun 280Z

Never knew if it was true or not.

A friend in high school put a Ford 460 into a 1978 Mustang Cobra II, he had to move the firewall back 4 inches to do it.

Nope, there was a kit. Local guy had one with a 350 and a Muncie M-21 4 speed. It was a fairly quick little car, but he cut corners, and started with a rusty car, so when it developed problems, it got parked and rusted away quickly.

I think I built maybe a half dozen small block Chevy V-8 Vega hot rods, a 10 bolt Nova rear end worked if you got the right offset wheels. I could snag a Vega with a tired engine, and either find a wrecked Nova, or a 4  door Nova, go to the dealer and buy the engine mounts and oil pan for a Monza, and have a fairly quick little car, cheap. On a couple week nights, or a Saturday.Had a deal with the local muffler shop for a dual exhaust setup. A local speed shop usually had aluminum intakes, and budget cam and lifter kits, with a roller timing chain. My cousins (distant) own a drive shaft shop. I eventually built a really stout one, it had a relatively well built 400 small block, a built TH 350 transmission, and I found a 4.11 gear for a 10 bolt rear.

[icepac]

Fan belts turning upside down was a symptom of sagging engine mounts on the V-8 monzas.   

[knorB]

This kid builds some interesting setups.

[knorB]

An interesting swap almost completed.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Fan belts turning upside down was a symptom of sagging engine mounts on the V-8 monzas.

Never seen it, owned a couple, worked on a bunch. Not sure how engine mounts would affect belts on a small block Chevy, every accessory bolts to the engine.

[icepac]

The back of the belts rub on the sway bar when the mounts sag.   

[AKIron]

Interesting.

[icepac]

Others have referenced the engine mounts issue in other forums.

23rd November 2014, 10:22
Horrible cars! I had a 75 with the small 262 V8 and manual transmission. It was a warmed over Vega. The transmission was not even rated for the torque the V8 had. Which was no problem because they used the 4 cyl. clutch. You were lucky to get 40k miles out of the clutch babying it. The front suspension could not handle the weight of the V8. The motor mounts sagged enough that soon the crank pulley rubbed on the sway bar when you hit a bump. The upper A arms broke out the unibody they bolted too before 80k miles. You had to jack the motor up to change a back spark plug. Absolutely the worst car I ever owned.