Nissan to Yota Engine Swap!?!?

I have a 1987 Nissan 720 / 2.4Z engine (that hurricane Frances just put a pine tree on) and am wondering if that engine will fit in a 1987 Toyota pickup that currently has a 4 banger too. Any ideas??

Thanks, Will

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Wilber100
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Swapping engines between models from the same car maker can be a pain to get the details right, swapping engines between makes can be done but there will be problems to solve. So do ALL your homework to make sure you can find the adapters and make everything fit (and get the car registered when you're done) before you start. If you start this project and get stuck halfway, you'll have to pay someone to haul it off to a junkyard.

The Nissan engine will probably need a custom adapter ($$!) to bolt up to the Toyota transmission, the wiring is going to be all different (sensor types and resistances), the linkage hookup methods will be different...

And you will drive the DMV crazy deciding which set of Smog Rules they should test the car under every two years. Of course, when in doubt they will apply the most stringent rules in the book.

You'll probably be better off buying another Nissan of roughly the same model year with a blown engine, and making a rather straightforward engine swap out of it - with no fighting to get it all to fit, hook up and run right. Why re-invent the wheel? ;-)

Extra credit - if the tree wiped out the rear of your car, find another example of the same model that's been hit in the front, blew up the engine, or had an engine compartment fire that they put out before it wrecked the interior. Use the best body-shell of the two, mix and match body panels to make one complete car, and it should all just bolt together and go.

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Bruce L. Bergman

Sorry for my ignorance, the engine you are referring. Is it a 4cyl or inline 6? I did a conversion to a 78 datsun pu. The 215ci aluminum V8 required the fire wall cut and moved back 3 inches and a custom radiator mounted in front of the rad support. The inline 6 will not work w/o major rework to the body. If it is a 4cyl, keep all support components (elect, emission, exh, etc) and the trans. Check with the powers that be in the state you live about the legality. Unless you are really ambitious, keep it stock. kend

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kend

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