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Well it was supposed to be a secret but my girl decided to let it out early. I bought her a max with a blown head gasket for $1000 and we kept going back and forth about which engine should go in. The day before we were about to buy a vq30de I decided to check with a friend that owns a junkyard to see if he had a 3.5 and it was just my luck he had only one left. We bought it for $500 without a throttlebody and picked it up the next day. I started ordering all the parts we needed for the swap that night and the last thing was delivered yesterday. We started slowly taking things apart during the week and on friday we only had to remove the axles, exhaust, tranny and pull the motor and we finished it all up with time to spare. Today we worked on the most dreaded part of the swap the timing equiptment. We got all of the timing stuff off the vq30 and began taking off the timing equiptment from the vq35 but got stuck when I didnt have a big enough wrench to hold the cam still while turning it. So we quit for the night and will pick back up tomorrow. I still have to work on converting the throttle body which has already been a pain. I was hoping to have everything done today but it never works that way. I'm just glad we havent run into anything major yet. Here are pics and if you all have any suggestions or things I need to look out for pleeeaasseee let me know. Also if you have pics of your converted TB please share. Enjoy.