03-02-2015, 11:19 AM | #1 |
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vq40de first gen frontier swap
this has been great until i got a phone call from a friend who works at nissan, offering up a FREE complete vq40de with harness and ecu from a 2011 frontier.. so i picked it up.. only issue at the time was the water pump failed dramatically mixing water and oil... not a prob except later after ripping it down i found the original owner failed to change the oil periodically..leaving me with a sludgy mess to clean up... here are a couple pics i took of the vq40 when i picked it up and the start of the tear down.. the truck update.. i disassembled the vq40de today... its worse then i expected but not as bad as it could of been.. the engine was pulled do to a faulty water pump at 135k miles... it was making a horrible sound.. so now for some pics and a vieo of the broken water pump bad water pump Well I got everything back from the machine shop. king rod and main bearings are in... everything looks so much better...Now just need to find the time to reassemble it.. Crank polished Block honed and coolant passages modified for vq35hr headgaskets Modified coolant passage Other side Very clean block... numerous hours spent cleaning oil ports that were clogged from lack of oil changes [/URL ] Sub oil pan 98% clean with new oil relief valve ( no pic sorry) installed since original was blown out
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03-02-2015, 02:18 PM | #4 |
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Now this is cool. I love me a good Nissan build. Going from a KA to a VQ is just beyond awesome (though I am a sucker for old technology so I would have went with a built VG33E-T, but that's only because it's my second favorite engine.).
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03-02-2015, 11:52 PM | #5 |
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Cool to see another VQ hybrid. I'm running a 08 Altima VQ35 (has HR heads on a DE block), with VQ30 timing covers/chain/oil pans, and an '09 Maxima UIM and TB in my '98 i30.
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03-03-2015, 12:48 AM | #6 |
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U got a build thread?
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