450ZX progress

Finally got the engine back together and sitting in the engine bay




Work done:-

Pistons and rods balanced to 0.1gram
Crank balanced
Bores honed and new rings
New bearings
Heads ported and polished, got about 5% extra flow
Jun Chrome molly flywheel
New gaskets and seals








This is my homemade flow test bench


Also replaced the plastic timing chain guides


Sorted out the oil pickup and sump.



And heres the engine mounts



Next to do is sort out the altenator, A/C pump and P/S pump

 

Freakin clean man! What pistons are you putting in there?
Also can I ask where you got the tubing for the pickup?
Hope to see you come on the cruises once it's done :br:

 

The pistons are the orginal ones
The pick was made from the orig VH45de & 300ZX pickups plus bits of tubing from the infinity half cut

 

wow didnt think anyone bothered 2 rebuild a vh 45 before... did you go oversize pistons? please say your putting some forced induction on her

 

very nice, keep up the good work.

 

holy shit :O

 

Standard pistons as I'm on longer going to supercharge it

 

No longer SC'ing... T/TTing?

 

Great work. keep it up

 

Looks great. Did you open up the bearing clearances more than standard or leave them stock

James

 

Left them stock

 

Does any know if there is a size differance between the N/A and TT radiators

Thanks

Andy

 

Yes, large difference. NA is larger in width, but narrower.

I used a TT rad in mine.

 

Do you have any measurments and piccys.
I'm interested to know to see how you installed the alt, P/S pump and air con pump

 

Alt is in the normal position.

No aircon or PS.

No I don't have measurements of the rad. Should still be some piccies in my build thread. A lot got lost when photodump went down

 

What steering rack are you using
No Air con in Brisbane, nice winters but the summers Yuk

 

Chrispy just de-powered his steering rack.
Andy, which power steering pump did you get with your VH? IRS or Active suspension? The smaller one (IRS) should fit fine... I am ordering some IRS brackets from Nissan so I can fit my SR20DET pump... we'll see how that one goes...

I had an eBay TT radiator with a 56mm thick core, left about 22mm clearance between it and the crank pulley (not enough room for any type of puller fans). Ditched that idea and now I'm using a FMIC as the radiator with dual 10" puller thermos, looking forward to seeing the temps with this setup

 

Depowered Z32. I think I will be putting PS back in. Use a standard Z32 rack and use a electric PS pump out of a Vectra/Astra or similar. Easier and smaller than the SW20 MR2 one.

Not too fussed about aircon, doubt I'll keep the motor in the car long enough to care

 

Mazda 2 has a very compact electric pump too.

 

i think the Peugeot 307 has a small electric pump to.