I've heard of people using a fwd maxima vg30e flywheel. To mate a c trans to a de. it's on the z31 forums if you search a little.
The only reason I would ever do this swap is because I could get one from the local yard for $250. Also there are at least 10 j30's there so I know I could find a good one.
If anyone was going to spend 10k on an na vg why the hell wouldn't they just buy an LS1.
To keep it Nissan? and N/A power? for the sake of milk and cookies everywhere!!!!
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well If you have that kind of cash I say go for it!! I applaud you. I think the limited funds part is what keeps most people from really digging in to the vg.
Do post a build sheet so we can see what it took!
The sound of that thing is gonna be MEAN!!
Ooooooooo, I just saw the vid on the website. Your car sounds great. Like a Zed with a good exhaust!
Thanks on the exhaust note, it's a 2.5 inch pipe custom job (made to tuck into the car to avoid clearance issues) and the headers are off of z1 motor sports. The cold air intake is custom from SVS too. I had all the piping done already along with the clutch, flywheel and ECU because really I consider those bits part of a good swap.
it also seems to me most people don't really build the VGDE because if they can afford it, they put the money into the TT's. One thing that bothered me at an auto-x when I borrowed my friends a4 quattro was the understeer inducing turbo lag. Which sounds strange, but when the turbo kicked in if you had the wheels pointed anywhere but dead ahead the car would understeer, making it near impossible to keep in the power-band during a corner and corner exits even more difficult.
A turbo wouldn't mean understeer in the s12, but it certainly could turn into a sudden oversteer movement on the exit as you came out of the corner. It just turned me off of turbo motors, the vg30de had 220-something hp at the fly and the s12 is a light car, it seemed like a good place to start and I didn't have a problem with not having 5,000,000 hp numbers that some turbo guys claim to have.
Hopefully right now with the modifications I have on it's running (fuel pump, injectors, intake, headers, exhaust, chip, flywheel, CF driveshaft) it's making 220 to the rear wheels, which is a pretty sweet number for a little s12 but worth improving on once I get time to really dig into the bowels of the motor.
I think when I get back to the U.S. I can do a full-build re-cap for everyone, especially with the new interior, roll cage, and paint!