I was wondering anyone concider swapping the I Q45 engine into thier HB or Pathy? It is a 4.5L V-8 that puts out 280HP. I wonder if the engine would mate up to the bell housing on our transmission or if you would have to make a adapter plate to do it.

Black 95 Pathfinder XE
2" PA Body-Lift
1.5" Ball Joint spacers
77 Bronco 2.5" lift coils
Rancho 9000's
32x11.50 BFG AT KO's
Rock sliders
Rack lights etc etc..

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[This message was edited by SHAD on 10-23-02 at 05:44 PM.]

Here's another few pics of it:
I'm giving greg ideas for his 69 patrol....






Black 95 Pathfinder XE
2" PA Body-Lift
1.5" Ball Joint spacers
77 Bronco 2.5" lift coils
Rancho 9000's
32x11.50 BFG AT KO's
Rock sliders
Rack lights etc etc..

Homepage: http://www.cardomain.com/id/shadowman2k

[This message was edited by SHAD on 10-23-02 at 06:25 PM.]

Wow, I've never actually seen one of those. I wonder if it will fit in the pathy...

Mr. Will

|1992 SE-V6 4x4, 2001 LE 3.5|
http://www.netsnapshot.com/pcw/pickalbum?W92PathSE

you are gonna have to come up with some kind of an adapter to fit the tranny and the transfer case together...




GOT ANY BALLS??????????

The only problem with that setup in the Patrol.. is that the tranny is so long that with a transfer case, the driveshaft would only be about 1ft long.

With the 302, C6, and NP205 in my patrol, the rear driveshaft is just barely long enough.. and thats with the pulleys being 1/4" from the radiator.

If you could adapt a shorter stubby transmission to the Q45 engine, you could easily put it in there though. Big V8s fit with ease.

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What would be even cooler.. and a little more low-tech would be to find an Nissan President 4L V8.. its basically a big oldschool iron-block pushrod V8 with Nissan build quality. Adapt a GM or Ford tranny to it and you'd have a real unique Nissan-Powered monster!

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I'm slobbering over that engine. One of those got shoehorned into a Frontier pickup a couple years back. Unfortunately, the truck went to the crusher since. It was a 2wd tho.


1998 Frontier 4x4 seriously built
2002 Xterra 4x4 still stock
"Conjunction Junction, what's your Dysfunction?"

Isnt Project X running that engine?

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Andy, is that the one Jim was telling me about the one time??????




GOT ANY BALLS??????????

John, no, project X has the 3.5 out of a QX4. Marshall, probably.


1998 Frontier 4x4 seriously built
2002 Xterra 4x4 still stock
"Conjunction Junction, what's your Dysfunction?"

Ahhh, ok, gotcha. Couldnt remember exactly what it had, but knew it was a beefier engine.

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