I am doing a job at a house that has a 79' Datsun 280zx.   It has the nissan L28 (2.8 liter straight 6) engine.  It is rear wheel drive, electronic fuel injected, and has a turbo option.  the base hp for this car is 170hp.  the car is complete and was running when parked, |removethispart|@ 2 years ago.  It has a 5-speed.  The car was offered to me, and I need to know if it would be a possible swap into one of my Samis.  I need to know quick as this job is almost over, and I wont take the car if I can not swap it.



thanks.

Yes, I am an IDIOT.   As soon as I re-read my post, I answered my own question.......straight six.......too long.    I guess I was just overcome with the excitement of possible power.  thanks

Run cooling lines and throw the rad in the back... I have no idea if a sammi case will take 170hp though.
Kelly

Nothing is ever to long! Just depends how much fabing you want to do to make it work!LOL!

Where's it at, I'll Take IT!

how much??   


it is in memphis area, the customer has not said whether it was free or not, but I imagine if we did have to pay for it, it would be VERY VERY cheap....like $200.00 ish.

My friend has a Datsun 1982 280z with L28et motor (yes turboed), from what I remember, the tranny is longer than the Sami Tranny.  And I think somewhere on izook.com  It has an article on swapping in rotary 12A motor in the Sami.  So, I would think that the swap would be very similar with 280z with some modifications.  The width would fit just fine, but its the Length.... would be a tight fit.  But, if you have this chance to pick up this car for less to free, I say go for it.  Just have some patience and it ll be done.  Welder and Torch on hand.  You're good to go.

There are two versions of the the Nissan/Datsun 5-speed gearbox, a short and a long output shaft option the short version is about 6 inches shorter. I'm not sure which is in the Z car, my skyline of the same era had the short version (until I broke it).

A L28 is waaaaay longer than a 12A, I reckon with the water pump hard against the grill you'd still have to cut the firewall, they are also quite tall due to the valve/cam setup and weigh heaps.

On the plus side: they also used the L28 in the MQ Nissan Patrol, so you could buy a bolt up gearbox/transfer case combo.

chevy vortec 4.3 200hp stock and there are kits out there already for this one.
just my .02 for a v6 engine swap.

Nissan in a Zuke? The Car Gods will frown on you!

chevy vortec 4.3 200hp stock and there are kits out there already for this one.
just my .02 for a v6 engine swap.

with the kit. *shakes head* its ridicilous expensive.  The way I see it, dollar against the kit.  Its cheaper to fab motor mounts etc than getting the kit for the price.  4.3 Vortec motor is a very nice engine.  I would definitely get one if i had the chance.

Run cooling lines and throw the rad in the back... I have no idea if a sammi case will take 170hp though.
Kelly

My friend has a 4.3 in his (200 hp) , The case almost lasted 20 minutes

Here is what we were / are in the future going to do chevy 4.3 with carb t18 transmission and dana 20 t-case it should be short enough and toyota axles.

Fab up motor mounts and transmission,t-case mounts cut out the channel and re fab up the channel.