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SR20 - darn thats a good engine!!!!!

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EMGEBE

EMGEBE

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My cars off the road atm, so i couldnt really go crusing with the boys like we did last night. I was with my mate, in his 97's14 200sx. He has only a few mods
like
exhaust mod only (cat back)
larger intercooler
higher boost etc...
Cant honestly remember his entire list, but its by no means extreme.

Anyways, we were out looking for drags along a highway in melb. and we pulled up next to a real nice looking s2000.
I goto my mate dave (who's driving), "ur not gonna have a go are you?"
daves like yeh,
"why not?"
"coz he'll kill you fool!"
- he didnt say anything after that

The lights went green, daves 200sx absolutely killed the s2000. We were like 2-3 car lengths ahead by 90km/hr.

The sr20det engine is one darn fine engine, it has to be one of the most powerful 4cyl engines EVER made.

Im not 100% sure, but i dont think you guys in the US get 200sx's.
I know you get 180sx's. But for some STRANGE reason, they'r badged as a 240sx /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif, maybe u guys get the non turbo models.
 
Nope EMGB, not smog legal in the state of California.---Keoke
 
We got ours with a 2.4L truck motor instead of the turbo 1.8L.
 
ours won't get out of their own way.
 
In the US we got the SR20DE engine in the Sentra SE-R of the early 1990s. It was also used in the first generation Infiniti G20. No turbo, but a first rate engine. Two liter, twin cam, very free revving.
 
Hello Emgebe,

"it has to be one of the most powerful 4cyl engines EVER made. "

EVER, no, not quite, I'm sure it is nowhere near the 1,300 bhp that BMW got out of their 1.5 litre (about 92 cubic inches) four cylinder engine twenty years ago.

Alec
 
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Hello Emgebe,

"it has to be one of the most powerful 4cyl engines EVER made. "

EVER, no, not quite, I'm sure it is nowhere near the 1,300 bhp that BMW got out of their 1.5 litre (about 92 cubic inches) four cylinder engine twenty years ago.

Alec

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Was that the Formula One engine?
 
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And they sold that in street trim when?

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And it matters why? The OP said "one of the most powerful 4cyl engines EVER made", not "one of the most powerful 4cyl street engines ever made" or "one of the most powerful 4cyl mass produced engines ever made"
 
Hello Radford,

yes, correct, it was the BMW Formula 1 engine, I did explain that in a later post but that seems to be missing now.

Denis Jenkinson, (DSJ, a well respected journalist in the UK RIP)was asked at the time if he wanted to see their (BMW's) crank. "Yes" he replied. The engineer pulled the sheet off the car and there was the crank lying in the bottom of the block with half of the engine missing. It used to blow up spectacularly.

Alec
 
All the F1 engines from the turbo era were prone to spectacular self destruction. They would turn the boost up to astounding levels for qualifying (which is when the BMWs made 1300 hp - more like 900 hp in race trim), and the qualifying engines became known as 'grenade engines', with good reason. Most would only last 3 laps - a warm up, a flyer and a cool down lap. Pretty impressive for a stock block 1.4 L motor.
 
I'm not to suer that we won't see some spectacular engine failures next year. They'll be running 2.4l V8, under a two race rule, and trying to match this years output. Whoa!
 
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