R35 Engines?

[ali-turko]

anyone thoguht bout buying and putting one these motors in to the older gtrs>?

[sh@un]

who wants to be the first to buy a $160,000 cutting-edge supercar and rip the motor out to stick it in a beat up old 32?

anyone?

anyone!?

LOL

[N1GTR]

Ring nissan and see if they'll sell you one, and how much

[gts-4 dreamer]

engine purchase straight from nissan or nismo would not be cheap. being assembled by hand etc, brand new hypo etc

[sh@un]

my guess would be somewhere around the $40,000 mark

[unarmed_skyline]

i guess 60k bare no ancilaries

[PM-R33]

I doubt they would sell it to someone if they didn't actually own the new GTR and actually needed the engine to be replaced. I could just see some idiot doing this:

"Hello Nismo? I would like to purchase your new GTR engine so i can put it into my fully hektik VL turbo."

Click-Click, Beep Beep Beep.

"Hello u there? Hello???"

[mitchy_]

i'll put one in my R31 pintara

[Kranker]

The VR38DETT sounds like a beast...titanium used extensively so would cost a fortune.

Only thing i dont like is the 7000rpm redline...a GTR motor should rev past 8k im my opinion

...hopefully it does and the limiter can be removed.

[R-PWR]

hmm 11.7 and 3.5 to 100 in a 1700kg car, put it in the r32 gtr thats legal easy 10s

[ali-turko]

DR-ENVY thats exactly what i was thinking

[N1GTR]

I doubt they would sell it to someone if they didn't actually own the new GTR and actually needed the engine to be replaced. I could just see some idiot doing this:

"Hello Nismo? I would like to purchase your new GTR engine so i can put it into my fully hektik VL turbo."

Click-Click, Beep Beep Beep.

"Hello u there? Hello???"

lol

Thats the best part, fully sick vl owners wouldnt be able to afford it, if they could, they would be driving a newer model commodore

[wrxhoon]

The VR38DETT sounds like a beast...titanium used extensively so would cost a fortune.

Only thing i dont like is the 7000rpm redline...a GTR motor should rev past 8k im my opinion

...hopefully it does and the limiter can be removed.

They don't need any more revs to produce the power they want . Do you know what the 911 tt Porka's redline is ?? 6500 rpm and she goes like the clapers with plenty of torque at 2000 rpm . My guess is this is what Nissan are trying to copy and by the reports we are getting they have done a good job . I wonder if the R will have a dry sump, like the Porka, hold heaps of oil , like the Porkas ..

[Richie33]

lol

Thats the best part, fully sick vl owners wouldnt be able to afford it, if they could, they would be driving a newer model commodore

Funny, couple of year ago I saw a VL on ebay with full GTR drivetrain, reserve of $50K. Laugh my arse off, it still looks like a VL and is just as comfortable on the inside. At the time I had a VL and other than the RB30E & gearbox, the quality of the car (esp. the interior) is poo.

[sh@un]

I wonder if the R will have a dry sump, like the Porka, hold heaps of oil , like the Porkas ..

semi wet-sump, apparently

[RB30-POWER]

is the new gtr engine direct injection, surely it would be?

[a20089]

This is not a stupid question. Why spend $30K building a engine up when you can purchase one with warranty, better fuel economy, EPA approval etc.

Also think about how much potential it had to be modded after the warranty ran out :-)

[sh@un]

so slapping the engine in a different car doesn't void the warranty all of a sudden?

[ali-turko]

i dont see why it would if u dont put stupid amounts of boost through it

[sh@un]

this is ridiculous

you think that any motors will be available for non-warranty related repairs inside the time frame of the factory warranty?

reckon you'll just be able to ring up and say "err, yeah, hi- look: the motor in my R35 blew up. pls send me a crate motor so i can install it myself"

unlikely