Suppose, purely hypothetically speaking, that some crazy person knew of a high-mileage stick-shift 3.5-liter Nissan Altima. He also knew where he could obtain a rusty 3.5-liter Altima with the crappy CVT but with low miles. What obstacles are there to pulling the engine from the CVT car and plopping it into the stick shift car?
There may be a year difference, but I think both are around 2010.
Is the 6 speed broken, or do you just like hurting Unicorns? I owned one of those, and really wanted to keep it, but money...
I think he wants to pop the low-miles 3.5 from the crappy CVT rust bucket into the manual car as a refresh.
I have nothing helpful to contribute other than peer pressure to do it!
Probably need exact years to check, but I can't imagine it will be any flavor of difficult. At most strip the auto to a long block and swap everything over?
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Duke said:I think he wants to pop the low-miles 3.5 from the crappy CVT rust bucket into the manual car as a refresh.
Yes, this. I may have more information in a while or two.
Edit: Stick-shift car is 2009, potential engine donor with CVT is a 2010.
IIRC, the harnesses are totally different. I remember reading someone swapping some Nissan stuff around and they had a learning curve with electronics. Since you'd be dropping the engine in the 6-speed car, it might be more of a slam dunk.
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If the blocks/heads are the same, swap it.
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