Why'd you pick your motor?
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NA KA because it's cheap and gets the job done. Basic I/H/E, bump the base timing a bit, a few free mods and it's at ~150whp/tq give or take a few. Not a whole lot, but enough for me to learn on and more than I can currently use effectively at an autocross or around the track. I could also say "because it came with the car" but the engine that came in my car developed a nasty rod knock, and after a lot of thought (and staring at my empty bank account) I bought another KA to replace it.
Now, for street driving it totally sucks. My real choice would be an LS2/T56 combo with an L92/L76 setup, a healthy cam, a tune, maybe some rod bolts to make me feel better about spinning it to 7k. Easy 470whp+, awesome torque, great sound (with true duals and an x-pipe to kill the LS "truck" noise). Probably $10k to get it done, about $9500 more than I had to spend, so in goes another KA.
Now, for street driving it totally sucks. My real choice would be an LS2/T56 combo with an L92/L76 setup, a healthy cam, a tune, maybe some rod bolts to make me feel better about spinning it to 7k. Easy 470whp+, awesome torque, great sound (with true duals and an x-pipe to kill the LS "truck" noise). Probably $10k to get it done, about $9500 more than I had to spend, so in goes another KA.
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^v8=gay keep your KA truck motor... Or kick the S chassis to the curb and buy a miata... Or get a corolla... Like a 2002 would be pretty sick. E120 had great crash ratings; which is always nice when operating machinery with the potential of exploding upon impact.
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NA KA because it's cheap and gets the job done. Basic I/H/E, bump the base timing a bit, a few free mods and it's at ~150whp/tq give or take a few. Not a whole lot, but enough for me to learn on and more than I can currently use effectively at an autocross or around the track. I could also say "because it came with the car" but the engine that came in my car developed a nasty rod knock, and after a lot of thought (and staring at my empty bank account) I bought another KA to replace it.
Now, for street driving it totally sucks. My real choice would be an LS2/T56 combo with an L92/L76 setup, a healthy cam, a tune, maybe some rod bolts to make me feel better about spinning it to 7k. Easy 470whp+, awesome torque, great sound (with true duals and an x-pipe to kill the LS "truck" noise). Probably $10k to get it done, about $9500 more than I had to spend, so in goes another KA.
Now, for street driving it totally sucks. My real choice would be an LS2/T56 combo with an L92/L76 setup, a healthy cam, a tune, maybe some rod bolts to make me feel better about spinning it to 7k. Easy 470whp+, awesome torque, great sound (with true duals and an x-pipe to kill the LS "truck" noise). Probably $10k to get it done, about $9500 more than I had to spend, so in goes another KA.
My ideal set up would be to copy GSRacers VH45DE / Z32 5spd set up with proper internal maintenance and add cams and eventually a custom ITB set up, and 3.69/3.9 FD with a S15 helical. 350ish hp/tq with 8k redline sounds like fun and I get to keep it in the nissan family.
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13b-re, because i only like to drive a couple of months out of the year anyways! lol
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if you havent been in a small plane its worst, cause your eyes and brain say we are moving and your body says oh no we are not. eyes and brain go asshole we are moving, cant you see? body says fuck you we are not moving at all. so they fight and fight and eventualy your body says, you know what fuck you brain, see if you can stop this!! then you throw up.
if you havent been in a small plane its worst, cause your eyes and brain say we are moving and your body says oh no we are not. eyes and brain go asshole we are moving, cant you see? body says fuck you we are not moving at all. so they fight and fight and eventualy your body says, you know what fuck you brain, see if you can stop this!! then you throw up.
