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

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?

^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

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

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?

^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?

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?

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

^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

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

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