Just put a JDM from Foreign Engines Inc out of Lynwood WA.
Engine was a bit dirty, cleaned it up and put in new seals, gaskets, water pump, checked the radiator, followed their guild lines. Engine fired right up. Adjusted the idle(the engine came from a manual). Drove the car for 50 miles and about 1/2 mile from the house the temp gauge shot straight up to H. The car shut itself down and ended up pushing the car off the road. Got the car into the garsge and could not even turn the crank bolt with a four foot cheater. The chap from F.E.I. said that it was a case of extreme overheating and could he find another engine for me. Yea the little metal tab was melted in the center.
Thanks
Al

 

are you suprised? if you get another motor i would spend the extra cash and get a complete front clip, as they are generally arent a beat up abused motor that was pulled from the junkyard.

 

Did you replace the t-stat too?

You live and learn. Only buy JDM engines from respected dealers, like J-HOT in Texas. If you don't, you are gambling.

 

give racer98 a call he personally hand picks his motors and actually knows what he's doing and what he's looking at.

 

perfect example of why JDM engines are not the deal they appear to be. first rule of JDM engines, if you must have one, is do a complete rebuild. i'm half tempted to make this a sticky.

 

^ werd.


If you don't mind me asking, how much did that engine set you back?

 

1700 to my door. Came with turbos, power steering pump, coil packs, partial efi harness. A/C compressor, downpipes, O2 sensors and other bits and pieces. The worst part is the warranty. One year if not over heated. Has the little tab on backside of the head. It entire time it ran, never went past the half way mark, then shot up and died.

 

contact "motortime" on ebay and see if they still have that black TT clip, they specialize in engine remanufacturing, but also import motors on the side, you wont be disapointed.

 

what i noticed, since japanes people usually wind up replacing the engine any way when it comes time to inspect them they run the **** out of them.
when you get one as a front clip it usually comes from a car thats been in a wreck.

also what i have noticed is alot of these "japanese engine" places up here acually run arround the junk yards pulling motors out of japanese cars yea they are japanese engines for japanese cars but they arent JDM.

saw a few of them today at the PaP in Arlington even.

 

throwing the phrase "JDM" on anything makes it worth more...

 

like your JDM fairlady

 

its not JDM its a RHD 240z that came from japan, doesnt the term JDM have to do with people selling things from japan? as say a japanese motor being sold in the US would make it USDM as its being sold in the united states domestic market, right?

 

The term means it was made for and originally sold for the Japanese Domestic Market.

My Fairlady Z was sold in Japan new. It was brought to the US in the 1980's as a used car. It is "JDM" but I don't call it that. It is not a converted right hand drive 240Z.

 

JDM as hell you ricer S30 wannabee owner, puttin all his money into a lowsey S130. shoulda just sold me the fairlady for 2K and gave it to a good home.

 

he'll just keep saying to himself "one of these days I'm going to fix it up" and it will just sit and rot until he dies or something will destroy it, things already rusted to **** so I'm choosing option number 1.

 

not quite. it was sent off for paint and body work not too long ago. he's going for nice driver, not full blown showroom resto.

 

ya, its getting fixed up. I just wasn't telling anyone on this forum. Especially Hoov

 

i think i actually knew some how about it going off to a body shop, didn't know it finally happened, i just knew it was going to happen. how was the rust on that thing anyways? also, im not blue anymore

 

The rust was bad.... really bad. After all the rust was cut out, all that was left on the ground were the headlights, dash, and Fairlady Z emblem so sad

 

poo.....my bad. didn't mean to spoil the surprise. well, i guess you can spill the beans on my plans for the honduh for payback.

no kidding. when i helped push that thing it was tough to find a spot that i could actually put pressure on without my hands going through the metal .

 

ok, Entropy is going to sell his Honda to me and I'm doing a B16 turbo swap on it.
I'm selling my 350Z to fund the project. AWD turbo FTW!

 

just don't tell them what i'm gonna do with the Z32 .

 

sell it and buy a real car?