3 engine junkyard build.
 

So I had a low compression turbo motor, never did turbo it. Long story short it spun two bearing after being in a body shop for 8 months. I found a 05 g35 (revup)with electrical problems. Fixed it in the guys drive way drove it home. Found bad bearings in it. Spent $1800 on the car, sold transmission for $800.

I had found a vq35de pathfinder motor in a junkyard. Traded some junk for it, seriously. I was going to use it if the crank could not be turned in my forged engine.

So this is what I did. I had the heads surfaced and cleaned from the g35, valves checked out. Installed jim wolf springs, along with my s7 cams into the heads. Installed arp rod bolts into the bottom of the pathfinder block. Used the 350z timing covers and oil pans, as for some reason the upper oil pan and the front timing cover on the g35 were also broken. The car has a salvage title so go figure.

So yes I have a pathfinder shortblock with stock internals running revup heads. Well they are not exactly revup heads. The heads on the g35 I found out are DE heads with holes drilled for the revup cam sensors.

The pathfnder block has flat top pistons. 10.0:1 compression vs 10.3:1. It does run and drive just fine. A complete bastard engine from the junkyard and into my 350z. May turbo it or put nitrous on it in the future. Eventually rebuild the forged engine.

Short block : 2002-2004 Pathfinder vq35de
Heads : DE heads modded for a revup, unknown year.
Timing : Stock 350z revup parts
Cams : Jim wolf S7 with springs
Exhaust : Longtube headers with 2.5" fast intentions true dual with non resonated x pipe
Clutch : Jim wolf flywheel, 300zx twin turbo clutch from auto parts store
Trans : Stock cd009 from the infinity

Where are you getting all of this done and tuned? West Texas like Lubbock or Midland/Odessa? I can't imagine anyone in Hobbs being able to do anything with the VQ.

*livedinHobbsatonetime*

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I did all the engine work myself. A few friends helped out. Only thing I paid to have done was getting the heads reworked. I'll tune it myself. It runs and drives. Need to clean and finish a few small things. Pulls hard with no tune. I had uprev, but the ecu fried due to electrical problems at one time. The wiring harness was bad. Once I buy it I'll retune it.

Damn, that's awesome. I bet that was some fun times in the garage with your friends.

Nice PPW. I'm biased.

Putting the engine together wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The Fsm is a little confusing at times. I checked the cam timing 5-6 times before I put the covers on. It's just very time consuming. The next one will probably go together faster, now that I have done one.

That's great! Where did you get your Z?

I bought it new in 2006 from the nissan dealer here.