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At the moment the easiest way to do it is a V35 Manual half cut! The one thing that we are all stuck on is the Bellhousing....everything else we can get sorted!

i thought we found the Bell housings bolted straight up with the rear wheel drive conversion

i thought we found the Bell housings bolted straight up with the rear wheel drive conversion

was sleepy....meant to say that the 4WD manual conversion there is no bellhousing for...yet!

Pardon my noobity, but isn't the bellhousing basically just a cover for the clutch and flywheel and doesn't serve any mechanical purpose? If it's essentially just a cover, can't a suitable one be custom fabricated quite easily?

Legally, no. A cut and shut job will be the easiest, fabricated/cnc would be best but expensive.

Ya'll still looking into all of this? wheres the progress @ currently???

My friends cnc machine is getting fixed soon, and he may be keen to make some bell housing adapters, but we will need a box to borrow.

i have a 34box here, and a 32box here also. or what box have we changed our minds to now?

  • 7 months later...

Since Chopps brought this up I thought I'd resurrect it.

Looking through this, is the only reason why you didn't try a Navara/Pathfinder gearbox the ratios?

R34 gearbox isn't that expensive if you're desperate for a manual solution. Personally, I'm going to get the shift kit in and I should be happy. I was just thinking that any gearbox from a 4WD Nissan that bolted onto a VQ motor should work, and Navara/Pathfinder was all I could think of.

Since Chopps brought this up I thought I'd resurrect it.

Looking through this, is the only reason why you didn't try a Navara/Pathfinder gearbox the ratios?

R34 gearbox isn't that expensive if you're desperate for a manual solution. Personally, I'm going to get the shift kit in and I should be happy. I was just thinking that any gearbox from a 4WD Nissan that bolted onto a VQ motor should work, and Navara/Pathfinder was all I could think of.

If you wanted a 2WD this is the go with a Z33 sump.

http://www.importmonster.com.au/view?url=http://page15.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t196679774&thumb=http://f6.auctions.c.yimg.jp/f40batchimg.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/7/3/7/8/san3shine-thumb-1302572301408591.jpg&title=3%20Z33%206

The Navara/Pathfinder setup would work but the money they want for it is way to high and considering its not really every going to be a performance box.....imo it's a waist of time. On top of that you would still need sort out the starter and a couple of other bits. With the torque we deliver our option is only really going to be to go for a performance box...R33 or R34 seems to be the best choice. It would be great if our transfer case just bolted up to the Z33 but it doesn't really look like it will.

AWD Z

See linky - guy in QLD doing a AWD 350Z, with a VQ38 twin turbo. Has been quiet for a good few months.

He is using a combination of G35x parts, R34 GTR Getrag Box and a bit of ingenuity. Looking to be able to sell it as a kit for V35's / 350z's.

Will work for us if he gets it off the ground, and be a lot simpler. basically all we need is the bellhousing adapter, the way to mount our T/Case on the back of the Getrag, and all the pedels/slaves/masters of a normal manual conversion...

Simple eh?whistling.gif

R34 transfer case should work fine for the rest of us Alex. :nyaanyaa:

Hopefully I will have some of the parts soon to start looking into the r34 Getrag option, namely spare bell housing. Next is to find all the interior parts cheap and see if the box fits. >_<

Just to let you guy's know...I spoke to a specialist today on this.......I am going to start pushing forward on this in the next week or so so that we can start getting the full price for the conversion together.

So hands up how many people would go down the Manual conversion path?....no bloody "Gunna's" either!

The gearbox we have chosen to go with is the R33 GTR box.........some more research into gearing, ecu's and a host of other things are needed but at least we now have someone who looks to be enthusiastic about help us out so we can release the true potential of these cars and get rid of all the Nissan Granny helper ECU's.

and yes he even new what the VQ25det and M35 Stagea was.thumbsup.gif

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