I've been thinking of doing a 2jz swap for a while now and I want to be fully committed to it but I don't know the proper price range for this full swap. This would include the proper mounds, harness, ECU, single big turbo that can go up to 650+ hp, etc. But I don't much time on my hands because of work and school, I normally trust most of the people on these forums so I just need a proper price range for this full 2jz swap in my 06 rev up 350z. So can anyone please give let me know how much this will cost in total? Also I will be doing all of this myself.. won't be taking it to a body shop to pay a fortune. My possible guess for this build is around 13-15k but I need someone who is experienced with this kind of situation and can help me or people that know exactly how a swap like this costs and what it requires.

Thanks.

 

Going to vary widely depending on how much you parts for the parts.

Here are a few good threads. The third one has a few costs:

https://my350z.com/forum/engine-swap...-2jz-swap.html

https://my350z.com/forum/media-share...-2jz-swap.html

https://my350z.com/forum/engine-swap...ap-thread.html

 

I'm just shooting you straight and a 2jz swap is not for you - enjoy the car how it is until you are out of school and have a large pile of money to throw at it.

 

Please tell me this is not a daily driver

 

I've been thinking about benching 650+lbs for a while now, but I don't know how much training I need to do to get there. Can someone else train for me and bench it for me?

 

It is, and he needs it by Monday morning for school.

 

I have a g35x that is a daily driver but my 350z is for weekends maybe every other week or depending on my mood.

 

It is going to take a serious amount of time and money to make it happen. You can't have both when starting out. You can either A. buy up all the parts you need immediately, regardless of price, or B. have extreme patience and wait for the right prices.

I don't know your financial situation, nor do I care, but school typically drains both of those. It will not be a simple weekend swap.

However, if you are still serious about doing it, refer to those threads I posted initially. You will have a starting point.

 

Right now looking at my current situations I think it would be better to keep a saving for the 2jz on the side which wont hurt and one by one start buying parts for the swap because I am 100 % serious about this swap but it will be easier when I get my promotion or when I graduate college and start my nursing career.

 

This is true for both time and money ... and not just for a swap build ... on my build I spent many many works nights in the garage from ~7pm to midnight/1am/2am getting as much done and I still didnt make my event!


And just because you spend a ton of money upfront to get parts quick doesnt mean it's going to be a quick build ... things will go wrong, you'll need to re-work something, a part will arrive incomplete/broken/wrong, machine shops keep hours that would rival a bank, something always comes up.

Twice as long and twice as expensive.

The best route is a little bit of option A and a little bit of option B (IMO)

 

For 13-15k why not just build the VQ and have an OEM functioning car? That's my thought, only swap that's not a V8 that's worth the trouble IMO would be the new TT Nissan engines.

 

I mean a lot of people like to v8 swap their z's, but to be honest It just doesn't feel right when I have an American engine in a Japanese car. But a good budget swap would be a ls3. ls3 swaps tend to be cheaper than a whole 2jz swap but if I TT the stock engine then it would require a lot more labor. You would have to go under the car and the engine space is so tight and packed when you have a 2jz swap you can work from up top working on a vq engine would put me in a similar scenario with a 2jz swap but less power. Plus ls and 2jz engines have a lot more power potential.

 

Budget and engine swap don’t belong in the same sentence

there is nothing cheap, easy, or fun about swaps or going FI...

jyst enjoy the car the way it is...

 

Ok, I'll bite. How much power do you plan to shoot for. . .

 

I mean, you can slap on a rear turbo, single top mount, or a vortech supercharger and get decent power, the 2jz isn't bulletproof. The argument of putting an American in there is no different than swapping a non Nissan engine in there. The truth is you are still mutilating the car and it won't run like factory.