new here, never heard of this site til i made a search on yahoo, but heres my beast

 

welcome to the community, and first things first, ditch those stripes asap

 

thats the first thing i thought too.. stripes.

welcome

 

Whatever you like, keep it. Welcome to Zdriver.

 

haha yea shut up...thought the first thing "ZDrivers" would think was yay a slicktop

 

Yay, a slicktop.

You guys are harsh. It's a very 'American' paint scheme. You know what's funny,....it looks better than most of the Camaro's and Mustang's I've seen painted that way.

 

no I meant, keep what you like. I personally wouldn't put racing stripes on my Z, but if yo ulike it, keep it.

 

well i didnt do it...stripes and spoiler were already on and come off this winter but u know what..it does look good i think in person and gets a lot of attention..but sometimes not the attention i want :tup: its cool emo..i wasnt telling u shut up i was agreeing with u

 

I think the stripes are o.k............. the wing must go....

 

Are you gonna TT swap that bad boy?

 

i want to..i hear itsbad news tho...90na300zx lives by me and is doing it and having nothing but troubles, unless 3 cylinders is enough to run on

 

Depends on how you do it. jdm motors are the issue.

 

so usdm motor would work fine??? how much $$ am i looking at??

 

Nice....as it being a slicktop. But not a fan of the stripes. Lose em and you are golden.

Welcome to Zdriver BTW.

 

>.> im looking for another slicky T_T

 

There's a bunch of options....You'll pretty much have to get a front clip either way. You're best bet with the JDM motor is to refresh it first. The problem is that a lot of people think they can just drop in a jdm motor and be golden...not true.

 

welcome welcome... i like the stripes but i was a domestic man for years... lol

 

beleive it or not, all nissan 300zx's are made in japan. there is no big thing about a guy swapping a motor from japan. he can proclaim jdm but all z's have the exact same motor.

as a matter of fact, it was mentioned somewhere that the cams on the auto 300zx in japan was sh!tty. it gave less hp.

but to answer your question, it doesnt matter where you get your motor from.

and about how much, a lot of things come into play. heres a site that offers the motor swap for $1900 + 200-375 shipping. http://www.jspecautosports.com/catal...spx?prod_id=49

plus you still have to get the pipping, intercoolers, maintinence kits.

in the end, about 8k total if done right and you did it yourself

 

Regardless if they're different or not (which there are some differences), would you take care of a motor as much if you knew that you were gonna have to change it out after just 60K miles anyway? The facts are that there have been many that have installed jdm motors and suffered from it.

 

This is a quote from Coz....a very reputable individual in the Z community IMO.
"We've never seen one J-spec engine perform/run correctly."

 

I checked it out, and it doesnt seem too "complete" to me....good deal tho, I'd still rather go w/ a clip for the little things like braces, and mounts, not to mention a good visual walkthrough beforehand. (+ the pedals, and clutch acc. since my swap would involve an AT-MT too)

EDIT: Oh yea, and welcome to the forum.....nice, um, stripes (I cant really talk w/ my primer paintjob)

 

good forum.. ..yea thanks i checked out all the threads on here about the swap..seems like a pain in my *******...makes me not want to do it....
BTW can someone tell me what stock compression on the NA motor for each cylinder is SUPPOSED to be???? mine is over 200 on each cylinder and the car runs like a beast ithink because of that..i thought stock was 140..and everyone tells me no ur car is normal..i dont think so, someone enlighten me