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Gday

I was wondering why cant i find one single cabstar 3.0td engine conversion on google or anywhere!!
Around here (Portugal) they are very much used in comp rigs, specialy in place of the GR's RD28T...
They are small, light, compact, resistant and allows major tuning becoming a huge torque beast at low revs....

Are we the only shmucks aroud using this engine ??

See here some vids of them in action...

In Comp Rig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9aVvgKj5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3vG_QUIsI

In "private" vehicle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIDCsZPx4E

GdLuck

What series is the engine?

Most people either use the TD42 or chuck a V8 in.

I knew a bloke once who chucked his 2H in his HJ70 Cruiser & plonked ina 13BT with an intercooler, it went well (in the days when crilsers had 2H's) .

afaik the cabstar motor is the ZD30 which has a big history of blowing up, most are fitting the old more reliable 4.2 rather than the other way around. plus the ZD30 is more costly to fit, cost more to get the power out of it. why bother when the 4.2 will do the job at a cheaper price.

listening to those vids, that is not a ZD30! If it is, it won't be like any of the revisions we got here.

depends a lot on what turbo they are running on it. they may have ditched the variable or possibly early ver used the navara motor.

Our Navs with the conventional turbo sound fairly similar to the patrol version, except less funky noises from the exhaust (and of course less melting )

I know you cant really compare exhaust notes, especially with video/sound compression on youtube vids but the scream of a tradie thrashing his ZD30 Nav is a prettty common one here in Brissy and you can definately tell when a ZD30 is headed towards or away from you. Very, very distinctive howl.

I thought the cabstar had an ED33.. A 3.3l 4 cylinder, same bellhousing pattern as the SD's?? Correct me if im wrong may only be the early ones.

bro in law has a cab star definitely not a zd30 in that

more modern cabstars have ZD30's and YD25's.

Older cabstars had TD27's and ED33's by the look of it.

ED33 rings a bell as a popular conversion for old landies too?

i don't know the ED33 at all but i know the earlier ones ran TD series 4cyls. we get them here more commonly under the atlas name.

the other thing to keep in mind is some overseas markets use locally made motors. i have seen pics of a "locally made" copy of a ford powerstroke which nissan fitted to its navara range.

a quick look shows ED33 is mid '80's motor (there is turbo version), then TD series and then a FD42 (4cyl 4.2litre ,about same power as TD42).

eduardo may have to find out exactly what motor they are useing.

Gday

The engine is a BD30T....not very powerfull in standard features, but alows major injection/turbo tuning becoming a torque beast (not much hp's thow)....

Other engine very much used (and abused) around here is 15BF-T

P.S. there are no td42 around here, only SD33, RD28T, ZD30 and the 2.7 4cil. from mavericks / terranos and some patrols...
V8's.....their a mirage in southern/western europe

GdLuck

If you're after a TD42, have a look in the UK. They're plentyful there and are cheap right now due to the new road tax system over there. A 4.2 GQ usually goes for less than 4k€ as a complete driveable car. Just picked up a '95 Maverick for 300€

I don't think we got the BD30T here in Oz.

Not much about it on the web either.

I did find this though:

92kw and 272Nm at 2,000rpm for the EGR fitted direct injection turbo intercooled model (BD30Ti)

There is also an EGR fitted direct injection turbo model without an intercooler, BD30T which makes a few less horsies.

Specs:

Model

Nissan BD30 Ti

No. of Cylinders

4 cylinder in line

Valves per Cylinder

2

Engine Capacity
cm3
2,953

Bore x Stroke
mm
96 x 102

Maximum Engine Power
hp (kW)
125 (92)

rpm
3,600

Maximum Torque
Nm
272

rpm
2,000

Compression Ratio

19.3 : 1

Fuel Type

Diesel

Fuel Supply

Turbo Intercooler / Direct injection

Battery
V / Ah
12 V / 75 Ah

Alternator
Amps
12 V / 90 A

Gday

I don't think we got the BD30T here in Oz.

OK...now i understand...

Not much about it on the web either.

Yeap that why i asked you guys

There are some videos on google.video under patrol cabstar tag, all off them portuguese....and that's it .... nobody seem to use them in conversions, thei'r a perfect match to patrol 2.7 4cil. gearbox.... they can easyly be powered up to +50% off their original power....

OK mates....thanks for the feedback ....
GdLuck

we never had a 2.7L turbo diesel patrol either