350sx build thread (350 olds powered 240sx)

[Nissan350sx]

story on the car:

it was my first car, paid $800 for it, drove it for a month and the motor ended up blowing up on me. so instead of going with an SR or RB my brother convinced me to let him have the car so that we could do a V8 swap.





took the KA out and cleaned the engine bay



455 oldsmobile block (being used to mock up motor mount)





oldsmobile mounts bolted right to the stock location for the 240's mounts



so far the only fabricating needed was with the crossmember. it needed to be about an inch lower.





we started working on the car december 4th. hopefully we can have it done before the end up january

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92 240sx with 350 olds motor

[rh4motorsports]

hey welcome! was just talking with ya on cardomain, yeah the pix are better here haha. yeah hope maybe the site can help ya out

[Nissan350sx]

so far the build has been pretty straight forward. only been working on it since the 4th and the only thing left to do is pull the motor from my brothers 72 cutlass and drop it in. mount a mustang steering rack, new radiator and finish making a crossmember for the trans

[rh4motorsports]

a mustang rack eh? hmm out of what year mustang? i'm interested in this.

[PowerSupply]

awesome, I cant beleive it just bolted right in.

do you know what kind of transmission you are going to use? what about driveshaft and rear diff.

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Planning on starting a v8 240sx project sometime in the near future
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[Nissan350sx]

a 400 trans with custom drive shaft and stock diff for now, looking for an R32 rear diff

[Nissan350sx]

rh4motorsports asked me on cardomain about how we are doing the steering. were trying to get a rack and pinion from a mustang. they mount in front of the crossmember rather than behind it. what has everyone else used?

here are some better pictures of the mounts.









using "sheet metal" valve covers



radiator from "just_intercoolers" on ebay



bought this on ebay too...offenhauser intake

[rh4motorsports]

nice man, those mounts are awesome. i love the sheet metal covers too!

yeah i'm wondering how you can get the spindles to work, i wonder if you could switch the sides, hmm.... i'll have to look into that.

[Nissan350sx]

we have tried that. it would work if the car was RHD

[rh4motorsports]

yeah looking at pix, looks like the sway bar would be right in the way, what i've been trying to look at is getting the outer tie rod end bolt to drop down to level. the problem is the angle that the bolt is turned at. it makes it hit the lca when turned all the way. yeah it's a mess. i dropped mine about 2" b/c of the flat pan i have.

[Nissan350sx]

sway bar fits perfectly between the balancer and oil pan.

[Nissan350sx]

pictures of the transmission cross member.

[rh4motorsports]

that's a very interesting way to do that tranny mount. nice.

[kev2769]

Hey there just thought i would drop a line on the steering issue. Im the guy building the car and on the lca and when you say lca are you talking about the bar going from the lca to the frame up front or the actual lca that connects from the ball joint to the crossmember? Hope that doesnt sound stupid. On the bar that connects the lca to the frame in the front I just bolted it on the lca from the bottom with a 1.5 inch spacer but you got to knock the studs out and use longer bolts. Then the steering rack and tie rods will go between the sway bar and lca bar. Ill try to get my bro to get a pic of it.

[kev2769]

Thanks. Not so clean but that will come later just trying to see how cheep I can keep it and use all the stock mounts. And on the driveshaft looks like i just need to change the yoke cuz its the same length with the 400 short tail trans im using.