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Nissan
- 200SX
- 300ZX
- 350Z
- 370Z
- Pathfinder
- Sentra
- GTR
- Skyline GT-R
Eric Hsu posted on April 02, 2009 23:51 
VQ35 on the Engine Dyno
Several months ago when we had the VQ on the engine dyno at Cosworth, I snapped a couple of pics. Since I never got to work on engine dynos very much in the past, I thought it was way cool to see a street car engine that we [the mostly unibody car crowd] commonly build/tune/whatever on a professional grade engine dyno. The ease of working on the engine is nice: there are no cut arms, burnt hands, busted knuckles, and emanating under hood heat blasting you in the face like on a chassis dyno. The amount of data we can collect is ridiculous too.
In the US, we do not have transient dynos. I think Cosworth has 7 transient dynos in the UK, but that is the SUPER big dollar equipment for ...
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Sarah Forst posted on April 01, 2009 14:41
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| | By motoIQ Staff We had known something was up at Nissan when we spotted 7/8 scale 350Z's with bulged hoods and flared fenders rolling around at night and when peering through the plastic slats in the chain link fence surrounding Nissan's Gardena California Headquarters—slats that were intended to block causal viewing, but didn't quite stop the observant curious from looking. We knew Nissan was probably up to testing a new Z car and our wish was to be able to take a peek at it. From our sister site 370z.com |
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Sarah Forst posted on March 30, 2009 18:12
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motoIQ Feature; Nissan's 350 hp Nismo 370Z Model Due in June!
by Sarah Forst
The Nismo 370Z is not only a looker but as you would expect from Nismo, has functional performance improvements over the base 370Z as well. The Nismo 370Z comes with an exclusive, unique and functional body kit that is not available as a Nismo accessory at the dealership. The wind tunnel tuned and racing-inspired body lines are fierce with sculptural fenders, upswept quarter windows, vertical door handles, and aluminum hood, door panels, and hatchback.
From our sister site 370z.com
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Mike Kojima posted on March 24, 2009 12:06
By Mike Kojima
It seems like the B15 Sentra SE-R Spec-V just doesn’t get any respect. Unlike previous models of SE-R poAwered by the SR20DE engine whose owners seem to love them and drive them until their shells decay into loose piles of metallic oxides, the owners of the new generation of SE-R seem to be eager to get rid of them, trading them in for the WRX, EVO, Si or SRT as soon as their incomes grow enough to afford the payments of these more expensive cars.
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Mike Kojima posted on March 23, 2009 20:23 
By Mike Kojima
I have more cars than I can store easily on my property or the motoIQ headquarters. It’s also a well known fact that most of them don’t run at any particular time because, I only have so much bandwidth and more importantly money to work on numerous projects. The fact that our house is in a pretty decent part of the OC and looks like a rednecks doublewide pisses off my wife to no end. My neighbors probably don’t like me very much either.
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Wes Dumalski posted on March 10, 2009 20:27 
By Wes Dumalski
OK so the title is not literal... In our last installment we talked about our planned turbo and injector upgrades. In particular we chose to install the now infamous GT28RS aka the Disco Potato turbo! Let's not waste any time with small talk eh? Lets get down to what we did and how we did it.
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Wes Dumalski posted on March 09, 2009 21:00 
By Wes Dumalski
Last we left off Project 200SX spun the rollers at 252 horsepower, at the time a new GA16 record, what we didn’t tell you was that part of the reason we stopped where we did was because we also found the limit of the clutch.
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Mike Kojima posted on March 01, 2009 15:21
By Mike Kojima
The Nissan 370Z's drive train is state of the art with innovative features for both the automatic and manual versions of the transmission. These features should give the Nissan 370Z a significant performance edge over other cars in its price category. The 370Z is available with a close-ratio 6-speed manual transmission and a close-ratio but wide gearing range 7-speed automatic transmission.
From our sister site 370z.com
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Dave Coleman posted on February 18, 2009 20:41
By Dave Coleman
"Dude! You’re on fire!"
Yea, yea, the car’s fast, but I just melted an intercooler hose or something, so this isn’t exactly the best time to talk. Nor is it really the place. I mean, everything was going great a second ago, but something just popped and now every time I hit the gas, I get this lazy "blaaaah" and the car just gets slower. We could chat about it, but we're over a blind hill, we're going 7 mph, and the track is still hot. Maybe we should catch up in the pits...
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Mike Kojima posted on February 12, 2009 20:11
By Mike Kojima
With Nissan claiming some awesome production power numbers for the 370Z, we decided to put the car through a dyno test to see if Nissan is able to back up their claims on actual production cars. Our test mules are both sport model 370Zs, bone stock from the dealer with just a few hundred break in miles.
From our sister site 370Z.com
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