Sports Compact Car Vq35de Buildup

[scathing]

One of the benefits of the Americans getting hold of a car is that we can get some English-speaking people with big budgets to do big build-ups, which is inevitably good for us.

A good case in point is this piece I found on the SCCW site, who are building up a NA VQ35DE for the Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge.

Castrol has invited us to face off against our sister magazines (Super Street, Modified, eurotuner, Import Tuner, Turbo, and Lowrider) by teaming up with a shop of our choice to build a no-compromise engine in its Castrol Syntec Top Shop challenge.

The competition is based on peak horsepower and torque per displacement (displacement is multiplied by two for anything with forced induction), total horsepower under the curve, a 30-minute endurance death match (all tests administered on an engine dyno), and an engineering challenge to impress a panel of engine-guru judges.

We decided on Nissan's VQ35DE as our platform. It has the ideal combination of displacement, rpm, fundamental design and flow capabilities, plus a respectable amount of low-end torque. Add in the 100-octane gas everyone will be using and we'll be able to raise the stock compression ratio to a respectable race engine standard. Our aim is to build an easily replicated, street-usable, 400bhp naturally aspirated VQ.

Its a pretty interesting read. They've basically tapped Cosworth Engineering to give them a hand by using their off-the-shelf parts, and as a NA fan I'd love to see how this thing pans out.

[BLISTC]

very interesting

400bhp na imagine running around in that thing on the street

LOUD!!!