Yeah the 4.3 v6 is what i have. But i'll leave that there. It ain't doing any harm to anyone.

 

Lol. The KA24DE sure is a hit in the 240, that's why everyone is aching to swap it out of their cars. True, having some interchangeability between vehicles is good for business, no doubt. But one big issue with putting truck engines in sports cars is they don't rev due to the aforementioned long stroke. And why are you on a rotary forum if you like torque so much anyways! :P

 

Exactly that's why several of my friends with 240's said **** the sr swap. They took the ka with a bolt on turbo some mods to the heads etc. and put down 500 hp. Yeah that's a shitty motor. Look at american sports cars from the beginning, they've never been about high revving, they've been about low end torque. No one thinks back about a hemi for how high it revved they think back to how much torque it had low down. Just because I am a rotary owner doesn't mean I shouldn't like torque. While the rotary is not as torquey as piston motors it can be made to have some good torque. Look at the 20b's everyone rants about how they have so much more torque in stock form. Using a smaller exhaust port and intellegently designing your exhaust can bring much more torque out of a rotary.



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the stock 240sx as delivered in the US sucks. its a total secretary's car.

 

1) Whether you can get power from a big engine isn't being questioned. But have you ever looked at the VE, MEP or BSFC figures for those engines? The difference is staggering.



2) I was joking about you liking torque and rotary engines. Joking. Have a sense of humour. It's just simple irony, not an attack.

 

One thing you cant deny the KA is a bulletproof motor it's actually completely rediculous...my friends would do all sorts of **** to the motors like going 10k on an oilchange and ghetto-ing up a turbo system and the motors would actually run like that...the nissan trucks would go 300 000km's+ and still sell for half-decent prices! And all that while getting great gas mileage and delivering a good amount of power.



Dirty little secret with me is that I love Dodge, love the ****. But unfortunately all the cars, trucks, vans have been junk since the 70's and even in the 70's there's almost no denying it...big, fat, sloppy suspensions, cheaply made hogs on gas, rust easily, fall apart ect. ect... but I like the Hemi cars even if they are named after something stupidly simple I still like them... All stemming from the fact my old nextdoor neighbour used to restore Darts, Roadrunners among other things in his garage. It's the act of restoration that makes them liveable! If you can restore any car I'll take it...fresh off the factory floor in 1974 no thanks....unless its a ALFA ROMEO even if the problems with Dodges seem pale in comparison, lol!

 

He's talking about switching engines in two trucks. He's not putting an LS2 into his Cobalt.



Car companies (or any manufacturer for that matter) need to be flexible to be competitive. That's why they use platforms for multiple cars. It cuts down on R&D while increasing the options to the consumer. Over-engineering something just to prove a point is best left to the luxury and exotic cars. Those of us who work hard for our $$ appreciate the price cut. I also appreciate the fact that the '08 WRX is based off of the '05 Legacy GT chassis so I have more performance parts available now.

 

Wow considering those two are so dissimilar (looking) I wouldnt have thought they wouldve based it on the Legacy...although I do liek the Legacy better the new WRX is kinda BLAH.

 

Actually, from an engineering standpoint, it makes a lot more sense to have your parts be interchangable between models. Less different tooling means less money spent in development. It makes a LOT of sense to have the bolt patterns be the same between most of the engines and transmissions.

 

One day soon there will be three or four basic architectures, and every damn car in the world will be a couple of stickers and a few pieces of plastic cladding away from being identical.