*Official* 5.6 motor swap

[2WD_NISMO]

Looks like you are making good progress. Are you doing it alone?

[AndrewVK]

me and my brother. and a bit of electrical help from step dad. but other than that its just us two. im about to get dressed and finish tearing down the vk

[bigdog]

interesting... will keep an eye on this project!

[Inyourface1650]

Originally Posted by ElLlanero

no im a v6 manuel.... and even then the fronty a/t are still different from titans. and mmm i dont mean to burst your bubbles but using titan motor mounts and brackets are not going to work. i would think cause the frame on a titan is wider them ours. i was thinking maybe brackets and engine mounts from the 09 V8 paths might work. let me know if it works or not.

when you put in the titan front suspension, and the titan differential, and the titan axle shafts it all bolts up fits? Which means the lower control arms are the exact same width as they are on a titan, which means the frame is the exact same width as a titan.

[AndrewVK]

lol

[SandToy05]

Originally Posted by Andy4106

motor mounts. in case you cant tell the difference, the dirty one is mine.

Pwned

I think the mechanical aspects of this project are the easiest. We know it's the same frame, suspension, motor mounts, etc. The hard part will be the electronics. Since the 4wd system and everything else is all tied together, it'll most likely be a full swap to Titan harnesses all around.

Keep up the good work! I'll be installing my new (used) Stillen supercharger next weekend, so hopefully you don't finish this project by then and make me wish I never bought it

[AndrewVK]

lol it will be done in a week or so i can promise you that much. all that im waiting on is the exhaust. that comes in tomorrow, and the engine will be put in, and i will driving it around in 2wd untill i can get the harness fixed or buy another.

[LI7IN6]

Originally Posted by Andy4106

ok guys. understand that im taking a v6 truck, with 6 holes in the motor, and putting a v8 motor in that truck, with 8 holes in the motor. i understand that the motor will be longer, bigger, ect. i have thought this out since last year. the bell housing bolts up. and the motor mounts are the same off the frame and the same clamshell....

I wasn't trying to be a downer, just putting info relevent to your cause that you might not know. Like I said, I'm sure there is a workaround as there are 5.6 Xterra's out there but it might not be the drop in affair that we all hope it to be. Apearently Nissan had to stretch the Pathfinder front end to drop that motor in so it might mean some relocation, cutting, or what have you to get it to fit propperly.

Anyway's, good luck.

[toyniss]

^^^^^^^^dude read some more. the pathfinder frame is probably different than the rest or we dont know that?, but the titan/frontier/and X frame as we know it are the same. and the X that you are talking about 5.6'd has stated that the motor was a bolt in with some electrical issues.

[05cc4x4]

If I remember right the guy that did the Xterra V8 used an electric fan. The stock clutch driven one on the V8 stuck out to far which is probably why you read about front end mods. I have a Frontier, A Pathfinder and my sister has an Xterra. All of them have the exact same engine bay, so if you can stuff a 5.6 in an Xterra it will fit in ours. The guy that did the Xterra was a Nissan Engineer and he was ready to help everybody out and then he dissapeared. I think the lawyers got to him. He said the hard part was all electrical. The original thread is probably still on the xterra forum but I'm to lazy to go look for it.

I found a couple of the pics from that thread