Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3

The new slave cylinder is attached to the bracket and the throwout arm.  What’s cool is now your pedal play can easily be adjusted.

Our transmission is now ready to be installed.

Our flywheel is installed with new OEM bolts and torqued down.

Our pressure clutch is now installed.  Using an old input shaft lines stuff up a lot better than the plastic tool and makes for smoother transmission installs.

Now the engine is ready to get dropped in.

The engine is lowered into place and bolted down.

15 comments

  1. Yaaaasssssss!! Loving these updates!! Since IAT’s are so susceptible to heatsoak in this car, do you think moving the mafs or possible running a different IAT sensor just after those filters would be beneficial?

      1. interesting. so with uprev/ecutek etc. you can disregard the scaling or just tune to not pull so much timing?

  2. Long time listener, first time caller 😉
    Surprised you didnt go for long tube headers since you are ditching the cats anyway? Well documented power and SOUND improvements to be had there. Also those intakes are very long, no detriment to power having the inlet tract so long?

    1. We know long tube headers are better for power production, but that’s not what the car owner wanted. He wanted to be able to put the cats back for street use.

  3. Street use, but un-sprung hub. What a mashup! You mention un-spung hub being better for synchros. Why do you figure that?

    1. I guess it’s because the disc, which is still connected to the input shaft via splines is lighter and can change rotational speed easier with less inertia. Got it.

  4. Did you guys notice a lot more NVH from the gearbox with the unsprung centre?

    I did a CD009 conversion on my SR20 and initially had an unsprung twin plate. Due to the relatively large backlash in the gearbox the off acceleration chattering of the gears was insanely loud. Changed to a sprung centre and majority of the noise was gone.

    1. I know about the noise because my twin disk solid hub clutch on my Z is awful in this regard. In this case it isnt so bad.

  5. Did you notch the bumper beam, and then box it back in? It looks like it, or Howard is just darn pure magic. It wasn’t called out in the article.

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