3.5L 6g74 swap info

[GTO Assassin]

Moff is offering man snuggles over in his gay thread if you are feeling down.

Scotty

[xwire]

I had talked to them about that engine, I would suspect crank damage as they said it needed one piston AND rod

[SeanVr4]

what i dont get is....how come no one makes the needed brackets to do this convo with a montero block? i mean the only difference is the pajero brackets....what not mock up some custom brackets...sell the kit for like $200 a kit and thus convince more ppl to go 3.5?

[SeanVr4]

^my reasoning....not saying im doing it just thinking out loud and im bored so i want to talk about it

buy a blown longblock for dirt cheap $300 (i can find blown 3s longblocks for up to 150 so why not monteros)....
-strip it down
-buy a new mitsu montero 3.5L crank
-ross pistons
-machine the block and blance

have a fully assembled 3.5L shorty for 2500-3000 tops....then be left with misc. crap u dont need and get get rid of for a case of beer or whatever

just thinking

[SeanVr4]

1500 for an engine is a lot especially when all it is is a core to u....jspec motor mileage is always wrong....40-60k my ass....more like 150k with some of these engines i have seen

[Hannibalzero]

Does the Pajero convesion require a modified oil pan? (Besides adding oil returns). The Montero pan requires some pretty significant modification to fit. Even if conversion brackets were readily availabe for a Montero 3.5, the pan is still an issue. Is this not the case with a Pajero?

[SeanVr4]

^regardless they should need oil lines for the turbos....wont a na 3s oil pan work on the montero and thus allow for clearance of the tcase?

[SeanVr4]

so i called and talked to that place in patterson....they said they dont get pajeros just montero jspec....they are the same? they come with the right brackets? bc i thought no monteros did or is it just us spec montero longblocks are the wrong ones?

[jackhammer]

Pretty sure all monteros are RWD configuation.


Regarding custom brackets, id bet my balls it would be a lot more than 200 bucks to have them made

[SeanVr4]

^gotta ppl that will make stuff for me for couple cases of beer....gotta love locals around here

i was just wondering on if the jspec montero longblocks are the same as pajeros and the us monteros are the crappy ones u dont want

[jackhammer]

The long blocks are the same im sure, but Pajeros are the ones that have the FWD bracketry apparently

[Hans_GZP]

The long block we got from them was the correct one. Just go there and pick the engine you want.