<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">What is "truckish" about the engine? The stroke? MANY performance engines are strokers. Damn, every rev happy engine in Honda's fleet is a big time stroker.
How about a stroked 408 Ford smallblock that revs 8000rpm and begs for more.
What a joke naji...drive it first before you slam it.
Your such a negative person...sheesh.
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Whatever. If it was such a hot performance engine, then why does it have such a low redline? Because it has weak valvetrian. Why did Nissan equip it with a weak vavletrain? because it is not a performance engine. The SR20DE/VE is a performance engine. The B18C1&5 are performance engines. Not the QR. The QR has more torque than hp. That is a performance engine!!!
Please...If Nissan wanted a perfromance engine they would have dropped the NEW SR20VE in the SE-R. But creating the new SE-R was an afterthought. "We have a new engine for the Altima, how about we drop it in the Sentra and call it an SE-R." At least the SR20DE *is* a turbo performance engine. The QR cannot handle more than 10 psi of boost w/o sealing the deck.
Even Honda that has long strokes for its 4 banger engines, does not have one with as long a stroke as the QR. The ratio is 2:1
You will soon see the QR in the base Frontier and then you will know that it is a truck engine. Something has to replace the aging KA and it will be the QR.
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Naji Dahi, aka Red Mist
Fast 1998 SE-R
Last of the SE-Rs
Slow 1996 G20 (AGXs/G20t springs, K&N drop in filter)