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Building a 502 Ram Jet GU
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:16 pm
by pato castro
Hello, a customer has just bought a 99 Nissan Patrol GU and inmediately fell in love with it, what he doesn't like is the lack of power of the TB45E (for something who drives a Porsche or Ford 6.0 Powerstroke as daily drivers) so after looking at some alternatives, and considering that there's already a supercharged 502 Patrol around here, he wants to swap the 8.2 litre, 502 Ram Jet engine on it maintaining the 5 speed tranny, anybody has info on big block swaps? the 502 powered GQ around here has all the drivetrain exchanged so it's not really a clean swap to get ideas from, and after searching the forums most of the engine conversions are for diesel 6.5 V8's, which are smaller than the 8.2 engine. Any help of where to get more info and also some store that has the parts needed for do that swap is gonna be appreciated
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:33 pm
by vanbox
i'm sorry i dont know ANYTHING about engine swaps. but keep us up to date with this build. including pics. sounds awesome.
goodluck
PAUL
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:21 pm
by pato castro
Well, here's a pic of it's actual state:
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:26 pm
by bogged
didnt Brent from Wizard have a 502 GU couple of yrs back?
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:18 am
by nastytroll
pretty sure Brents is t700r auto, dont know bout Craig from superior alignments though, he has a BB in his ute
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:05 am
by unimog
don't know about gu but the biggest engine you can put in a gq is 5.8 lt for road use in qld and get appovered because i am doing it now hope that help's
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:43 pm
by turps
unimog wrote:don't know about gu but the biggest engine you can put in a gq is 5.8 lt for road use in qld and get appovered because i am doing it now hope that help's
THis guys not in Aust. So bigger the better.
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:58 pm
by pato castro
turps wrote:
THis guys not in Aust. So bigger the better.
That's true
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:14 pm
by badger
when i asked my engineer here in qld he said size was unlimited due to gq being a comercial vehicle.
no info on swap tho sorry
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:52 am
by pato castro
Anybody has any contact, or works to, or is a dealer of Marks 4wd? i send them an email with the parts that (i think) i need to do the swap and i want to buy them and get them delivered over here
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:50 pm
by PGS 4WD
Too heavy, put a L92 in. Or an L76.
Joel
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:50 pm
by PGS 4WD
Too heavy, put in an L76 or L92.
Joel
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:50 pm
by pato castro
Nice engines, but we want the 580 lb/ft of torque of a N/A engine, besides with aluminium heads is not that heavy either
