3000gt ls style swap?
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All 3000GT's and Stealth's have transversely mounted engines, even the TT/AWD versions. The AWD cars essentially have a transfer case bolted to the transmission that routes a drive shaft toward the rear. Using an LS4 and either the mitsu trans or a GM trans, it will probably be too wide. Putting an engine in longitudinally would be a huge undertaking. You've got to deal with this: cross member, steering rack, firewall, floor pan:
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What other 'stuff' has you concerned now that the hard part is out of the way?
With this conversion you are going into mostly uncharted territory and rarely piloted waters. Coming from experience, your biggest obstacle will be fabrication - hands down. I suggest contacting the guy with the other car and see how, why and what he did - and make notes. If you don't have pretty good fabrication skills, I wouldn't even think of it and I would swap to another car.
I would give this swap a score of 7 or 8 out of 10 for difficulty with 10 being something akin to fabricating an entire chassis (you "only" need the front subframe), modifying the floor, and making custom body panels from raw materials or fabricating your own parts and making them look factory.
