I've boxed up all my driveshaft parts and am shipping them to a place that has the skills and interest in making a shaft for me. It's more expensive but at least the local idots won't get my money

Turns out maybe the 04 Nissan Titan may have a slip yoke that has replaceable u-joints that might fit (at least this is what I am told). Too late now. Looks like the Drive shaft specialist can modify the shaft no problem. I still have my fingers crossed until the shaft is in and working. The cost on this shaft keeps going up. Pretty soon the driveshaft will cost more than the trans Got to have it to make the wheels go round :3gears:

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I just got back from the local drive shaft shop (scientific brake). They say they can't modify my drive shaft. It's METRIC is about all they could mumble. Idiots! The driveshaft is becoming the hardest part of this whole project (no after market slip yokes fit the trans). Who knew.  I have an e-mail to the Driveshaft specialist. To see if they can modify make a drive shaft that will work out of what I have.

In about 3 weeks, June 14th I will have had my '86 rx-7 for 10 years. 10 years of driving the same car to work. Yesterday after work I start it and it dumps an apex seal right there. I drove the thing all the way home with just the other rotor. What a headache. Told my family the car was done and my daughter actually cried. :cry: Guess the car has been in the family for awhile.Now the heat is being turned up on getting my '91 rx-7 engine swap done. At least in my '91 there won't be any apex seals to blow Also found out yesterday that my company wants to relocate me to Virgina. I have to get my swap done. Luckily it is getting close. Until then I drive my beater truck. If that isn't modivation to finish the car nothing is.

I can't wait until it is finished either especially since my rotary powered rx-7 puked an apex seal.

Well I tested the glue I bought on my small test sample. After 24 hrs I tried to break it. Took several hard whacks with a hammer to break it. Best results out of any of the epoxies I tired. So I went ahead and made the first glue.The Glue I bought is a 2 part epoxy from Devcon called Plastic Welder II. It says it is good for glueing nylon 6.6 which is a common material for intakes.Increasing the glue joint is a good idea. I'll look into doing that.

The first pic of what I have done (cut it apart). Now I need to glue it back together as shown in the second pic (TB on opposite end). I have ordered some industrial plastic glue that says it is good for glueing difficult plastics including nylon. It is solvent and heat resistant. I'll see if it is any good on some test samples tonight.

Well I started checking sensors and it turns out it was the rear crank angle sensor needed some tweeking.Got it to crank right up once the sensor was fixed. Ahhh what a nice feeling to hear it run....Can't wait until I get to drive it.

I hooked up my engine saturday and tried to give it a start. I got some pops and a little smoke but never got it take off. When it first started cranking it I got the distinct smell of rotten gas. I had drained the rx-7 tank and refilled prior to trying to start the engine so I expect it was old fuel in the injectors and fuel rail. The engine had been sitting for a couple years so I am beginning to wonder if the old gas may have cloged the injectors.

Just thought I'd let you know I am still working on my car. I had a hard time getting someone to sell me a used motor mount. I hadn't expected that. The nissan mounts are gell filled and isolate the motor well so I wanted to use the OEM ones. Anyway I fnally managed to get 2 and modified the K-member and mounts to fit. I was quite happy to see the engine an the car becomming one. The NA rx-7 hood closes on the engine with no mods to the hood. The engine hangs maybe 1" lower than the rx-7 cross member height. Next step is to reinstall the steering rack which will take some more fabrication for mount brackets etc due to the fact the location has changed.I'm having a good time and Yes I know this is not the easy way to go. I was looking for a fun project and so far this has been quite interesting.Too bad winter is comming and my garage is not heated.

Well things weren't fitting like I wanted to. I needed to move the engine back another couple of inches and the firewall was getting in the way.Pulled the dash, heater, A/c. After a little work with the cutting wheel I have plenty of clearance.This project is more interesting that I thought it was going to be

You know I hardly used the hammer or hacksaw. It's a shame they ended up in the picture. Pretty much all the cutting was done by an angle grinder with a cutting blade on it. It was like a knife through butter but with lots of sparks. Wife watched the interior for fires just to be sure. No fires only smoke from the sound deading.

It's a VQ30DE. The one I have is from a 2000 maxima. I expect to hook a 6speed manual from a 350z to it. With any luck the trans will be here saturday. I wanted to go with the VQ35DE but they are in short supply right now. Maybe next time.

The motor I have chosen is really light. It is aluminum heads, block, oil pan and lower intake. The upper intake is plastic. My brother and I lifted it up together (without the Alternator, ps, A/C). It has coil on plug ignition a variable intake and dual overhead cams. Power is a little on the light side (222HP 217ft-lbs torque as installed with cats etc.). I could always mod it a bit after it has been proven to fit. Price was right so I had to try the swap with this engine.I actually have been having a good time with the swap so far.

Well I originally wanted to put in a Infinity V-8 but it wouldn't fit without sticking wayyy out of the hood. Decided to go with a nissan V-6. I know it's the V-8 forum but I didn't see a place for V-6's. Clearances seem like big problems. The subframe and steering rack. It's hard to believe you guys are getting V-8's in there.Anybody else have clearance issues? What about ground clearance? After seeing the engine sitting in there she thinks all the V-8 stuff is made up and wants to see one in person.