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Originally I posted this on SilviaWA forums as it was more relevant there, but a friend suggested this may be of interest on here due to the frequent discussions of engine transplants... Hope I'm not breaking any rules, and I apologise to anyone who might have already read the original post...

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I got talked into trying to fit a VH41DE into my old S13. Yeah, it's a pretty tight fit and it was reasonably difficult. It might stuff the handling, but that didn't really bother me much as it will probably tail-steer fairly well. I'm planning to get it certified and permitted, and it has been approved in principle by technical section before I started, pending certification of suitable brakes... fairly standard requirement. No, it hasn't cost a fortune thus far but it's not completely ready as the photos will show, but yes, it runs and yes, it is the most awesome noise I have ever heard come from an S13.

I'm willing to answer any technical questions anyone might have if you want to come and find me and check it over... I don't recommend you consider doing anything similar unless you too are a half-crazed engineering student with alcohol poisoning and a lot of understanding friends. This is not easy, but it is possible. We won't know for sure if it's even worth it for a little longer, the car isn't yet ready to be driven with nearly 300bhp in stock trim.

If anyone knows of someone else who has done this transplant I'd be interested in comparing sketchbooks with them. I'm not sure if this is the first one in Perth, it's been hard to find any info on the web...

You can be guaranteed it won't be the first in the world, because no doubt some little workshop in the backblocks of Osaka have probably been there and done it twice before, and the yanks have been doing wierd things to 240's for years.

It might not even be the first in Australia either, can anyone clarify this?

Silfiniti pictures and video available here

Obzai

Special thanks to:

Ian from Alltune Engineering

AJ and Iwanz from Speedworks

Mayhem

Damo

Daze

And the rest of the gang who at some time or another have lifted a spanner

and who did their best to reign in a rapidly escaping secret...

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just watched the video...oh sounds scarey...hate to line up against that on the street..reminds me of the part on 2f2f when the rice box is racing the american muscle car. :( very nice work.

OMG.

I saw the video and that's what I want.

The 4.5 litre VH45 Nissan in my Skyline.

Deep down I don't like turbos... I really want a v8 under there...

T.

I'd just like to thank you guys for your responses, I was kind of expecting to get a bit of a smackdown to be honest :)

I've put a few more pictures up at the same link, this time a few more detailed shots, but if you're truly curious as to how it was done feel free to come and find me and say hi, and I'll point out how, what and why we've done it the way we did... much easier than having to try and figure it out by pictures :)

Obzai

Did you guys use the Infinity Xmember or a modifyed S13 one?

Ants been thinking about a turbo VH44 into his Datto 1600, Sic puppy.

Standard s13 x-member all be it with some minor mods to the moutns to account for the slightly different location and angle of the vh41 mount, nothing to extreme, and a customish gearbox x-member..

Nothing most people couldn't knock together with a bit of time and some good welding and fabrication skills

I'd just like to thank you guys for your responses, I was kind of expecting to get a bit of a smackdown to be honest :rofl:

You should see a thread we had going in the past about sticking V8's into Skylines.

Why I think I was called a knuckle dragging neanderthal because I wanted to stick a V8 into my car!

The bottom line is that a VH45 Skyline is still a Nissan thru and thru and we like them fast and loud and this certainly is all the above!

T.

Well done Obsydian for the conversion! :cheers:

My brother was at Speedworks when they started it up and he said it was absolutely awesome! Can't wait to see it in real life for myself! :O Hopefully it won't be at the lights!!

It sounds like, ummm, well it sounds like an angry V8 Drag car. Very Loud!

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