Eish, you really read alot on the internet dont you........
Not alot of nissans locally had a VQ45, I think maybe 1 patrol did, importers wont sell you one off a working motor, sometimes you're lucky and they have a wrecked motor.
NOW.... for my 2c.....
The 80 - 90mm of a throttle body that size will be too much for a stockish setup, yes it will flow more at high rpm and you probably will gain a few KW, but you will loose alot of low down torque as the air will be stalling at low RPM and your throttle response will be terrible too.
THE ALTERNATIVE
As I'm such a helpful guy here is a nice alternative, the SR20DE throttle body will also bolt right on, you just need to extend a shaft for the TPS, a mate did this with a pipe and some pratley steel, this gives a nice compromise between the 2, also you can see if you can find a KA24 throttle body off a 2.4 hardbody, that fits too but I think its smaller than the SR one.
Also thought of going that route. Sitting with the problem, that the car is quite standard now. And I dont want too much at the moment.
But I want to start with the head setup at home, seing that I have a complete head, turbo, intake and everything at home. So while Im doing a daily driver I wanna get the head sorted.
Was thinking of putting the KA24de TB on my car for now. Very good advice..... Thanx
Building a motor on the side that I will pop in when its a track car.... Any advice would be great. Looking for loads of torque....
Torque comes from the bang, kw come from the "breathing"
For more torque look at some regrind intake cams with more lift, the more air in the bigger the bang, also a electronic boost controller is pricey but it makes a huge diff with torque lemme find a dyno graph for you.
if you going to get your stock cams reground or you are going to get billets with custom profiling, then you will tell them exactly what you want.
if you are buying aftermarket cams, then you take what you get... although there are lots of choices out there.
it would be best to take the head, with the valves, to the engineers who are going to do the work. that way they can measure the biggest lift you can do safely!
search the net for the stock specs on lift for the ca18det, then you should be able to gauge from there! its usually only a few mm's more than stock!
ReeceZ wrote:I'm sorry... I couldn't help it. Please no one wish any hateful shit on me, I own an SX already