My Arabian Nissan Patrol 1997 Y60 (GQ)

[Shanfari]

Pics from our short documentary in Nahiz, Salalah, Dhofar, Oman in 3-Sep-2013:

Wild balsams, Impatiens balsamina, everywhere!

You can see the pinky landscape because of balsams

In the valley

The climbers here are mostly wild cucumbers, angled luffas, morning glories.

Continue...

 

[Shanfari]

My greetings

 

[Chuck59]

Nice rig!

 

[RMP&O]

Great pictures!

 

[Shanfari]

Nice rig!

Great pictures!

Thanks guys! Appreciate your nice words

 

[Shanfari]

Let's get back to the main topic:

We've put the VK56DE on the patrol and planted the engine sensor in the patrol's transmission housing at the same angle/location where it is found in the Titan's. No response

Read a lot about it and it seems to be impossible to run it with its ECU in another car as it has an anti-theft system. It needs to be programmed with a whole new system from Halltech or MoTec, that would be pricy!

Good news is a TB48DE, instead of my both engines (TB42 + TB45), is being assembled to run it on the rig until we can figure how to run the VK56DE. Any updates will be posted!

 

[Shanfari]

Next plan:


Haltech ECU with custom wiring harness in Dubai, UAE.

 

[wreckdiver1321]

You certainly are determined. Good on you! Love the truck. I always loved the Patrols.

 

[Shanfari]

You certainly are determined. Good on you! Love the truck. I always loved the Patrols.

Thanks! I really would love to see Patrols all-over the US as that would bring us a lot of new aftermarket parts and accessories.

This next step might cost about 2000-3000$ or more :drool:

 

[wreckdiver1321]

Thanks! I really would love to see Patrols all-over the US as that would bring us a lot of new aftermarket parts and accessories.

This next step might cost about 2000-3000$ or more :drool:

Yikes!

I'd get a Patrol if I could. I'd really love a Y61.

 

[Shanfari]

Yikes!

I'd get a Patrol if I could. I'd really love a Y61.

Hope you get one! But a Y61 would take another 9 years to be legal to import, in case that law never changes.

All the best for you!

 

[skibum315]

Bummer that you can't get the VK to work for you without the pricey standalone management. Sounds like you're running into the same issues I've heard of with VK swaps over here, too ... one has to use the same motor, trans, and computers (ECU, TCM, BCM) from the donor vehicle, otherwise the NATS (Nissan anti-theft that you mentioned) gets out of whack. There have been a few VK swaps on the Frontier site, and one Xterra running a VK (Project X2 ... only 2nd Gen Xterra I know of to do it, Stateside, though many talk about it) ... but that one almost shouldn't count, as I believe it was a Nissan Corporate project; or at least had some direct connection to Nissan.

There was also a sand car (2wd purpose built buggy) that had a VK for power, along with a sequential Mendeola transaxle, but I think he was running a custom JWT standalone computer originally built for a VH45 (and modified from there) ... and he also went to a custom Extrudabody ITB setup over the standard VK intake, manifold and throttle body. There have to be some guys out there who run the VK as a drift car powerplant, in Zs and other chassis (heck for the right cash, you can get built long and short blocks for the VK ... somebody must think there's a market); so it makes me wonder what they do to run that motor ... it can't be that everyone who wants to run the VK is doing so with a completely custom standalone setup *OR* every single gosh-darn thing from the same donor - there has to be some middle ground I would think.

I, too, would like to get my hands on a TD42t Y61 ... assuming of course that I could convince myself that parts availability and maintenance support wouldn't be an issue (due to rarity) here in the states. The other option would be to go nuts on a R51 V8 Pathfinder, but someone needs to give me a blank check for that project to be a reality.

 

[Shanfari]

Bummer that you can't get the VK to work for you without the pricey standalone management. Sounds like you're running into the same issues I've heard of with VK swaps over here, too ... one has to use the same motor, trans, and computers (ECU, TCM, BCM) from the donor vehicle, otherwise the NATS (Nissan anti-theft that you mentioned) gets out of whack. There have been a few VK swaps on the Frontier site, and one Xterra running a VK (Project X2 ... only 2nd Gen Xterra I know of to do it, Stateside, though many talk about it) ... but that one almost shouldn't count, as I believe it was a Nissan Corporate project; or at least had some direct connection to Nissan.

There was also a sand car (2wd purpose built buggy) that had a VK for power, along with a sequential Mendeola transaxle, but I think he was running a custom JWT standalone computer originally built for a VH45 (and modified from there) ... and he also went to a custom Extrudabody ITB setup over the standard VK intake, manifold and throttle body. There have to be some guys out there who run the VK as a drift car powerplant, in Zs and other chassis (heck for the right cash, you can get built long and short blocks for the VK ... somebody must think there's a market); so it makes me wonder what they do to run that motor ... it can't be that everyone who wants to run the VK is doing so with a completely custom standalone setup *OR* every single gosh-darn thing from the same donor - there has to be some middle ground I would think.

I, too, would like to get my hands on a TD42t Y61 ... assuming of course that I could convince myself that parts availability and maintenance support wouldn't be an issue (due to rarity) here in the states. The other option would be to go nuts on a R51 V8 Pathfinder, but someone needs to give me a blank check for that project to be a reality.

Thanks man for this great comment!

The Nissan Patrols with VK56DE are growing, it's a complicated engine but give so much power even many tuners give it credit over denali's 6.2L V8!

Here's one in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJqlXz2rqo

This is an older one in Qatar with same engine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4liBEZJWoRk

It's still not very common to put that engine as it's quite expensive compared to GM engines. For example, an LS7 7.0L V8 would cost me about 9,000$, when a VK56DE would cost 9,500-10,000+$. BUT, it's easier to register and make it legal in compare.

Most common swaps are Toyota's 4.7L V8's, although the Nissan's TB48DE I6 has more power and so much room for tuning, and costs about 7,000-8,000$ compared to Toyota's 2,500-3,000$.

But I'll use the factory transmission + diffs + shaft as they're thicker and stronger than all and have been abused with more than 1000hp with ease! TRD clutch is bought already as the fastory clutch can't handle that power for long. Chrome HKS 4-row radiator has been ordered too.

Will post if there is something new

 

[Shanfari]

The VK56DE project has been canceled: car shipping + custom wiring harness + Haltech 3000 ECU = 5,000+ US $!!!!!


Assembling a TB48DE 4.8L I6 engine with some tunes would be just fine

 

[mortonm]

The VK56DE project has been canceled: car shipping + custom wiring harness + Haltech 3000 ECU = 5,000+ US $!!!!!


Assembling a TB48DE 4.8L I6 engine with some tunes would be just fine

Damn!