WE'RE HELLCAT SWAPPING A 350Z!

a few months back I picked up this stolen Hellcat  from the Salvage Auction rebuilt it and then  

ripped it right back apart I ripped out all the  wiring from it and used it to complete my manual  

swapped Dodge Demon project and now we're well going  to steal even more from it we came in this morning  

I got to thinking the only thing cooler than a 707  horsepower Hellcat engine and a 4,400lb Hellcat  

will be a 707horsepower hellcat engine in a 3,300  lb Z I mean he already has the Super sick stance boy  

Wheels now we just need a big ignorant engine  three times the horsepower it is literally three  

times the horsepower the math checks out there the  basic idea here is we're going to take the engine  

out of the Hellcat and try to mate it to the  transmission that's already in the 350Z that way  

we only have to worry about the logistics around  swapping an engine and not doing a complete Drive  

Line refit and of course we're not doing it just  for fun right she's not sounding too hot these

days the whole point being here is that one  could I suppose argue you that a Hellcat engine  

swap is practical practical practical or  not I'm positive there's a 100 problems  

we're going to run into most of which will  probably be caused by the fact that that  

engine is massive compared to this one but I  suppose there's only one way to find [Music]

out she ready to come out or uh not yet but you  need to see this yeah that's pretty impressive  

I mean I suppose it is fitting and just in case  they don't know the back story on this car it's  

a submarine yeah the license plate checks out  when he bought this car it was flooded up to  

the top of the doors and while a lot of it's been  restored the engine the trans and obviously most  

of the shifter linkage is still original and it  is crunchy it's nice Florida saltwater corrosion  

now this build there is a lot of stuff we're  hoping to reuse like the transmission one thing  

we're not going to be able to repurpose though  is Bor exhaust don't get me wrong the Bor is a  

really nice exhaust if you're making like 2 or  300 horsepower fortunately you're out of that  

club now like 100% And what you said you're going  to do is run two like Joe Dirt open headers right  

no more of course for reference the stock exhaust  on the Hellcat is a dual 2 and 3/4 I think what  

we'll ultimately do on this one assuming the open  headers that just pitch get tiring after the first  

15 minutes is run a true dual 3-in after all  we have two holes to fill why not fill them

and with that we're basically more  or less ready to come out what do  

you say we drop the Hellcat out and while  you're finishing up this I can knock the  

transmission off that and then we can  test fit in SS like a plan to me stand

it oh yeah last time I had to pull  the alternator off to get to the  

oil pressure switch and now the alternator's just

chilling all right we're Gucci it's not going  anywhere I was a little scared about that there we

go now we just got to get the  trans off it and we can start to  

get an idea what we're going to be  working with here yeah good enough

[Music] the suffering both I think we got  a problem they're fighting a little bit

huh it's almost like this car was  underwater or something it's funny  

that you see it in exterior it looks  like so clean it really does the car  

looks awesome and yeah then you start turning  riches salts falling out rust a whole nine

yards all right serious question is  this algae I don't know what's going

[Music]

on all right what's hung up now don't go down yet  

I think it's just the bolt  are plock steering shaft

um got it

[Music]  

check that out you didn't tell me to that boil of  headers on it you need to do this SP probably made  

plenty of power it's what like 260 not at all now  obviously we still have a massive amount of work  

to do here but I think we should probably you know  what I'm getting that right Fernando you got to  

I guess this is like the first of many moment of  truths here what about if it doesn't fit at all I  

wouldn't be surprised I'm positive we're going to  have to cut a lot of this car up but hey it's an  

old Nissan right it's fine it's rusty already what  was that uh the supercharger pulley is hitting  

the radiator so we need to go back with it so  dropping the car down over the engine the steering  

shaft that is going to hit the valve cover that  subframe studs really close to the valve cover  

I'm starting to think we might have to pull the  entire front end of the car part which on these  

it all does unbolt so that's great that might  be the way we have to get this engine in there  

I don't think it's going to go in like this and  it's certainly not going to be easy but hey it's  

in sort of congrats on the swap 707 horsepower  does all that it matter we got a lot of work to

do ready for round two I think I am  you think or you know it's just like  

we need to make make a lot of cuts hit  in the Heather already yep both sides  

all right well to be fair we kind of knew the  stock header wasn't going to work right yeah

[Music] exactly it's going in pretty good though  get this guy up and out of the way who needs AC

do you heard that I heard it I don't know  what it was but I heard it all right so  

that's about as far as we got right we're  looking pretty good pretty good so I guess  

like logistically it does fit in the engine  bay that's something as it sits right now I  

guess this is about where your radiator fans  come in so that's probably not going to work we  

are going to have to move this a lot further  backwards definitely going to have to hack  

out this false firewall it's just thin sheet  metal you can cut out pretty much all of it  

and that'll give us a lot more room to move this  thing back you ready to hack this gym up um it's  

going to be a little bit disappointed that I have  to cut a solar Orange Shell but it's for a good  

at least this is a salvage title right flood is  salvage title Salvage flood yeah same difference  

right I get that you're trying to like Spruce it  up be like it's not Salvage it's flooded I mean

we in the point is no turning back on this project  no turning back no I got to admit though it looks  

really good for the record is my first card  in the chassis you know um I was like kind of  

a little bit nervous the cuts turned out really  good I got to give it to you on this one um what  

happened there though what's the what's going on  with the big hole in the firewall now I know you  

had to cut the lip off that all looks good it's  clean it's nice and then there's the big hole they  

cover on the passenger side hits the firewor  a little bit so so far I crossing my fingers  

that's the only major cut that we have to do to  the chassis and now that you got the cutting done  

I guess this is where the fun really starts right  exactly busting open new parts spending a ton of  

money look at the finish I like them yeah you're  just ignoring the whole money part right you know  

you're just trying to block that part out like  it never happened it's just like I don't want to  

think about it I think that how we all justify  that if you don't think about it doesn't count  

is your credit card company thinking about it  um it's already the limit anyway this is our  

conversion oil pan it's by loj conversions it's  made specifically for this swap it has a heavy  

front swap so we can bolt it right to the Hellcat  engine it won't hit the subframe that's going to  

sit just behind it equally as important we have  this adapter plate it's a sick piece this is going  

to let us Bolt the cd9 transmission that's already  in the car to the Hellcat engine we got the engine  

Mar by the way it looks sick they are sick quity  so I've done a lot of engine swaps back in the  

day and the swap mounts were never this nice  they always look like some dude made them in  

his backyard this actually looks like a really  nice piece let me show you the shifter look at  

this quality feel it also a really nice piece  but I was a little confus why we needed this I  

think I figured it out though it looks like our  adapter Plate's going to space the transmission  

back I don't know a/ inch maybe closer to an inch  we have this trans cross member as well which I  

didn't think we were going to need but it slotted  I believe to let us move it back even further that  

explains this we need a shorter shifter that plus  the cutting I think handles the swap part of this  

hole deal now we got to talk about the power part  more money the most expensive part yeah so Holly  

Dominator ECU it's the same ECU that I'm going to  be running on my truck it's a sick setup and then  

there's this guy the 10% bigger crank pulley for  10% more boost is that how that works so that's  

going to be louder I'm not quite sure that's how  that works but while Fernando's yanking off all  

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car purchase and back to it now if you watch my  demon truck build series you know that if you're  

running the Holly Dominator ECU it's not capable  of controlling the variable valve timing which  

means it's got to be deleted fortunately it's a  super simple process you just need to remove and  

open up the cam gear then you install the phaser  lock pin to take away the cam Gear's ability to  

well be variable that's really all there is to  it it's one of those things that sounds a little  

more intimidating than it actually is especially  on an engine like this it's super easy to time  

but this next step this one never feels quite  right no matter how many times you've done it  

why the first time that I have to do this it  have to be on a $10,000 engine and not a 100  

what better time than the present wait you so  you want to do it on $100,000 engine not at all  

when you put an ATI balancer on these you want to  drill and pin the crank as well so Fernando you're

up you don't look nervous  at all I am nervous [Music]

[Applause]

did some damage good damage it's the right kind  

of damage are you sure let's  see is it the right kind of

damage oh yeah that looks like a nice clean  hole success much success see you were scared  

for nothing but it was a lot hold your hand out  right now okay I thought so normal all right our  

crank's officially pinned now I guess it's time to  button this thing up put the pulley on and stick  

it in the car the plan for this car at least  for now is for it to be a full-fledged street  

car meaning it's going to have AC power steering  and despite what grinding the bell housing of the  

transmission a fix your clutch might indicate a  streetable clutch I don't even know if I want to  

admit how many nights we stayed here late trying  to get this engine into the Z and it's just not  

really worked out too well too many let's  put it that way missing parts I don't know  

anything that could go wrong did go wrong but  tonight tonight's the night I'm feeling it I  

think I think we have all the parts here now we  tried to fit the oil pan previously and learned  

there was a uh what do we call it a bit of an  issue small cut small cut small cut speaking of  

small cut to fit our starter on here with our  oil pan in place we have to well cut the block

all right it kind of looks like you know what  you're doing there almost to be honest with you  

with this gasket I really want to take care of it  it's the most expensive gasket bucks for a gasket  

yeah it sucks no thank you I do have to give  it up to LJ on some of this stuff the adapter  

plate that's such a sick piece seeing it on the  engine is even better the oil pan now I guess  

the only question here is and probably haven't  tested this part does the starter actually fit  

now that I cut the blood 100% you know I don't  know what I was thinking putting this engine  

right here I thought I was oh yeah it's going to  be way comfortable and it's not hold on hold on  

hold on you saw these engines you saw me work on  these engines and somehow you thought this was  

going to be a easy swap what's that old saying  the motor's easy to fit it ain't [ __ ] that's  

how it goes yeah that's the old saying y I  never heard it's a legit thing trust me it's  

a tight fit down there but hey it does clear  and yeah we will have to pull it back off when  

we put the transmission on but at least we know  it fits all right so we are completely fix fing  

this out as we go our swap flywheel it has  a pilot bearing in it it's part of I don't  

know I guess how it converts a Hellcat engine  to a 350Z transmission that does mean though  

that we got to get this Factory pilot bearing  out of there because this won't seat unless we

do now we get this slick adapter flywheel on

here so this is the new prototype clutch we're  going to task with holding all this new new found  

power we sent our flywheel down to the guys at  Mantic they took some measurements built us a  

clutch and couple days later it was back they  said and I quote we're trying some new things  

put it through hell try to break it let us know  what fails well we're going to do that right

Fernando we are going to do that no problem say  no more there we go you look like if you know  

what you're doing I don't okay trust me everybody  looks like they know what they're doing when they  

have a torque wrench in their hand all right  now it's the the real Moment of Truth here are  

you nervous we got the adapter fly well we got  the adapter clutch but we don't know that it  

adapts for sure yet hopefully and I think we're  going to need it yeah it's supposed to adapt oh  

it adapts if you guys have ever fought with a  transmission putting it onto a engine getting  

it through the you know pressure plate getting  it through the clutch disc this was not that  

this was cake as much as we fine-tune double  triple quadruple checked everything about this  

transmission swap the one thing we haven't been  able to answer and no one's really been able to  

give us a good answer to Is if we were able to  use a stock throwout bearing the diameter of  

the throwout bearing that's right we measured  that but we weren't sure about the throw but  

now that we got it a symol we can stick the  old boroscope in here and I don't know much  

but it looks right to me which means if I'm not  mistaken it's time is it it's time finally finally

[Music]

come on no more problems she's going to  fit right [Music] in that is tight tight  

tight but it works right keep going we got to keep

going oh like a glove check that out  like a GL I'm hit something now these  

lines oh that's that's got to go we don't  need that anymore that's a stock what a  

stock either fuel line we don't need that  we're not running stock fuel lines I your

there's our old stock fuel lines that yes are  actively still leaking fuel here's the size of  

the fuel line we're going to need for the power  we're about to put in this thing right no you  

sure sure little more oh wait we're there we're  there how's it look I think oh that's way better  

than I thought it was going to be look at all  that clearance I thought this thing was going  

to be right up against the firewall I really  can't lie I didn't think it was going to fit  

this well we all know swaps put big engines and  small cars it works well sometimes but typically  

things don't fit great there is so much more room  than I thought I'm genuinely impressed by that we  

do have to come to the driver side a good bit  though we have a lot of room there not so much

there needs to go a little more I think that  wasn't really the factory service manual way  

to move it but it works why is nothing grinding  hitting like things should be going bad by now  

something that was just a cable all right hold  let's double check this seems to be going far  

too smoothly oh my even just suffering some  placeat this is some kind of line that doesn't  

really matter the alternator has clearance  now that we pop those sway bar brackets off

we're there we are there all the way  around this thing it is as clear as  

clear can get there is so much room well so  much room for having a big giant V8 in here  

the back plenty of room there driver  side more than enough there the only  

spot we have one little bit of contact is  this lit that's left on the false firewall  

Fernando cut off hitting our back coil pack  just a little bit a little more right there

problem solve it's not hitting anymore  and we even have room to plug it in  

which is you know equally critical  little comfortable under here not at

all yeah it's so front heavy now it just falls  off the lift forward I sh going nowhere it's all  

good all good send her up what do you think it's  in there it well yeah there's that we I think  

we gathered that we all realized that really  quickly it fits good I'm impressed about that  

to be honest we it fits really good the trans  all this stuff lined up really well the shifter  

position it's Flawless it's right in the middle  of the tunnel the oil pin clears that subframe  

perfectly there's I don't know there's really no  major problems with this swapping if you've done  

a swap car before you know that is not often  how it goes I'm kind of happy with the space  

that we're going to have at the front it's going  to be enough for a good right here we'll do it  

yeah we can get it done for sure yeah yeah sway  bar is going to fit and everything yeah that's  

what that cutout in the oil pan right there is  for now for the next Moment of Truth which I do  

realize there's been a lot of Moment of Truth in  this video let's see how the hood shuts are we  

oh wow that's way better that's I thought we're  going to be like that far up check that out look  

it just hits the BL lower lid the throttle body  and all that stuff's clear it is just hitting  

right there which means that I can put spacers  over there like the JDM no no to accomplish what  

we need to do with spacers on the back of the  hood they're going to have to be like that tall  

nah just like this look just take my word for it  let's get the saw and start cutting right there

did you forget something I love how  there's like brake fluid dripping into  

a cup back [Music] there it's not how you're  supposed to use the hammer I'm pretty positive