VQ35 Swap Finally Started up!
06-24-2009, 08:19 AM
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VQ35 Swap Finally Started up!
So I've been working on this for a while and we finally got it started up 2 days ago with the help of Frank at Hills Garage. I'm not going to go into to much detail but its basically a 2002 maxima engine in my girlfriends 1997 maxima. For all the details on the swap you can go here http://forums.maxima.org/all-motor/5...ss-thread.html or ask questions in this thread. Alot of these pics need captions but I'll add them later. I'll just let you all enjoy the pics and vids of our journey from start to finish.
06-24-2009, 08:28 AM
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Hearing it start up was one of the greated feelings in the world. We had no idea if it would even work since we arent mechanics and never done anything like this ever. We actually set the timing correctly the first time around! After all of this work we only have 2 issues which I consider small. We need a new radiator and we have a leak coming from the timing cover that we'll have to reseal. We ran into some other issues that we needed a shop to fix for us so we took it to Hills garage and had frank take care of it for us. My girl cant wait to bring out to some of the meets.
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I have the same model max as hers and mine weighed 3140lb with me in it so hers should be right around there. I dont think I've ever seen any solid track times from an swapped automatic maxima so hoepfully we can get some good times out of it.
06-24-2009, 08:43 PM
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well lets hope.. i know alot of time was spent on it on mon and tues by frank... i hope to see it all cleaned up. and at the maxus show.. maybe with all that power you can slap a set of wp pro brakes on there next 
.. 6 pots all the way around great low price.. 
.. 6 pots all the way around great low price..
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Nice. That setup should be a lot of fun. I used to have an 6spd 02 max and it was definitely a fun fwd car. The 97 max should be even lighter than the 02 IIRC so you should have a blast with it.
