I've owned this car since I was 18 or so, and it has gone through MANY different motor combos. (Turbo i6, and about 6 different SBC setups) This final (Crossing my fingers on that) build is me doing what I ultimately wanted for it all the time, but could never afford to do. As I started, I found a TON of rot on my frame rails up by the engine, so I had to fix that before anything.
So I was pretty much at a standstill until I could figure out a motor for this car after getting the wiring done for the most part. At this point, my friend (Infidel on here) came up with the shitty idea of taking the corvette engine and putting it into the datsun, that way I can save myself from spending the next two years building an engine.
His car is the orange car
I pulled the vette motor, after putting together a stock ls6 to replace it with. Sold my fancy clutch, headers, ect, and returned the car to stock minus my trans/rear and a 160 tstat.
Old and new
This is after hours of cleaning the motor. It was a dirty pig.
Bought a Mike's Ultimate TH400, and some other goodies for the drivetrain
Liz made me a nice lil crossmember for the car too
And in it went! Fit quite nicely as just a long block. Unfortunately there were other fitment issues down the road.
I started to do the basics, put the manifold on, wire under the hood (Used a summit harness) and plumb fuel system too
I tried to make the wiring as clean as possible, I feel like the pictures don't really do it justice. Next up was the accessories fitting. I got a beautiful bracket from AandA Corvette, and heavily modified a stock alternator bracket from a c5 to fit my car with a mini alternator (hi output from a chevy truck. 105amp I believe)
(Blower is reclocked now, obviously)
I might lay the radiator down for more clearance to fit an intake to a filter, since this really is a street car despite what people seem to think.
After the motor was pretty much done, besides fluids and intake/exhaust design I towed it to Scott's Speed and Custom to build be a custom trunk and get my cage up to certification.
So I was pretty much at a standstill until I could figure out a motor for this car after getting the wiring done for the most part. At this point, my friend (Infidel on here) came up with the shitty idea of taking the corvette engine and putting it into the datsun, that way I can save myself from spending the next two years building an engine.
His car is the orange car
I pulled the vette motor, after putting together a stock ls6 to replace it with. Sold my fancy clutch, headers, ect, and returned the car to stock minus my trans/rear and a 160 tstat.
Old and new
This is after hours of cleaning the motor. It was a dirty pig.
Bought a Mike's Ultimate TH400, and some other goodies for the drivetrain
Liz made me a nice lil crossmember for the car too
And in it went! Fit quite nicely as just a long block. Unfortunately there were other fitment issues down the road.
I started to do the basics, put the manifold on, wire under the hood (Used a summit harness) and plumb fuel system too
I tried to make the wiring as clean as possible, I feel like the pictures don't really do it justice. Next up was the accessories fitting. I got a beautiful bracket from AandA Corvette, and heavily modified a stock alternator bracket from a c5 to fit my car with a mini alternator (hi output from a chevy truck. 105amp I believe)
(Blower is reclocked now, obviously)
I might lay the radiator down for more clearance to fit an intake to a filter, since this really is a street car despite what people seem to think.
After the motor was pretty much done, besides fluids and intake/exhaust design I towed it to Scott's Speed and Custom to build be a custom trunk and get my cage up to certification.
