370z LS Swap

Jeffblue

i was on the highway today driving like 60 somethinng in the right lane and there was this guy in a geico car who seemed to be an insurance adjuster or something. anyways, i was getting passed by people going 75-80 in shitty *** old volvos and c class mercedes and ****. i was thinking 'yea take that insurance guy! see i am driving safe, and look at these people gunning it in their safe family cars with low insurance premiums.'

its not the car, its the driver.

stupid statistics!

sonic370

I guess some people have more money then common sense.

just buy a corvette and be done with it.

Mike

been there, done that, its not as fun to drive as a Z, other than in a straight line. It down right wears you out on the tail of the dragon, the steering is so heavy.

__________________
NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

dnasty370z

It's not about having the money and just buying a vette I love my Z and want to make it as unique a ride as possible for myself.

Mercennarius

LSx swaps are not unique, its the most common swapped engine in to vehicles.

Want to be unique? Swap in a VK56 or a built VH45DE.

But it still makes the most since to just turbo your VQ37.

dnasty370z

Are you kidding me how many 370z's do you see running around with any kind of corvette motor not to mention an LSX how would that not be unique and If your gonna start comparing a VH45DE or a vk56 which one is an Armada motor and the other a qx motor to an LSX??Which is A RACING CRATE MOTOR not that the other's are not but there simply is no comparison here so.....Honestly you should not even be posting in this thread or racing cars
\

theDreamer

He is saying an LS swap is the most common engine used when people do engine swaps. There are reasons for it, great power, smallish engine, and bolts into almost any car, but what he is trying to say is be unique instead of just going with the standard LS motor. Go grab a nissan V8, which so far I have only seen one Z ever do (a 350z) and it was a 'meh' build.

__________________
theDreamer's Z // Fast Intentions // Uprev // GTM // HKS // TEIN
theDreamer's Silvia // URAS // GREDDY
Houston Zs // Facebook // Twitter // Instagram

Jeffblue

there's a g35 with a vk56 titan motor:

looks pretty cool. i haven't found any video of that car going in a straight line though. seems to be strictly a drift car.

Mercennarius

Not how many 370Zs, how many cars period. Theres not another engine in the last 10 years thats been swapped into various cars from various makes more often then the LSx engines. Its been done literally THOUSANDS of times.

You don't think the VH45DE and VK56DE have been used in factory race applications? Maybe you should do some research on both of these motors before knocking them, they have MUCH more potential then I think you realize. In fact, boosted, they probably have more potential. But I won't get into that, you obviously havnt done your research and will probably never even attempt pulling out your VQ37.






For the price of an LSx swap you could have a 1000HP turbocharged VQ37, and that is a lot cooler then any LSx swap would be.

dnasty370z

Im not going for an LSX I want an LS3....And to get to 1,000 whp with a VQ37 takes a lot of money In building the motor not any ordinary set up can get our cars to make that kind of power. I love my car But I love LS motors And i wanna run my Car to the ground an Swap an LS and If you think Im wrong by doing so Go ahead and Do whatever the hell you wanna do with your own car and don't knock on my plans. The nissan V8's are nice But I just feel That GM knows What there doing when it comes to the LS series motors end of story...I started this thread to help me see what kind of process I would have to go threw to do this swap Not to Debate what V8 or What motor Would be better to Swap. If you don't have anything productive to say please find another thread to Debate about Pointless things.

AtomicRob

Thank you!

Zsteve

thats tooo easy!

__________________
2010 LS3 C6 Silver coupe corvette

ThoriumHotdog

There you were, impeding traffic and making the road a dangerous place. All in front of an insurance guy. Shame on you!

ImportConvert

He was in the right lane. No traffic impedance caused.

Jeffblue

65 in a 55 isn't slow. its not fast, but its not slow. tops i go on a 55 mph highway is 69mph unless i'm in a rush, and then i'm always paranoid about getting pulled over so i don't really go much faster than that. i feel like cops are looking for people going 70+, they'd rather write a bigger ticket. if i go 75, i'm going 20mph above the speed limit, and i'll get there about 1 minute earlier. timing lights and stuff in local areas is how i try and make up for lost time. not getting stuck at a few 2 minute lights will save you a lot more time if you were in a rush than going a few mph faster than you would normally be driving on the hwy.