{"id":32,"date":"2007-05-25T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:42:30","slug":"nissan-pulsar-with-ferrari-f355-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Pulsar with a Ferrari V8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Nissan Pulsar and give it a Ferrari 3.5L V8 from a F355 and you get this. A decent amount of work went into this engine swap. Anytime you take a FWD car and switch it to a RWD mid-engine setup you are looking at some serious work. Some commenters have stated it has problems with track width and the cooling system which seems to stem from the lack of space. If they did just &#8220;spot weld it in the back&#8221; we expect this to crank but that is about it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: blog.hemmings.com (no longer active)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Nissan Pulsar and give it a Ferrari 3.5L V8 from a F355 and you get this. A decent amount of work went into this engine swap. Anytime you take a FWD car and switch it to a RWD mid-engine setup you are looking at some serious work. Some commenters have stated it has&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=32\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nissan Pulsar with a Ferrari V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulsar"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14825,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=14825","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":0},"title":"Nissan Sunny GTI-R with a RB26 and R32 Drivetrain","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Olivier Frey purchased a Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTI-R in 1994 to compete in slalom (autocross) racing. 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