Nissan pathfinder, nissan altima 3.5 and nissan maxima 3.5

Dont all of the above have same engine(VQ35DE) as 350z?

How come 350z has >300Hp while rest of all have only around 250Hp.

Do you think air intake and exhaust added >50Hp in 350z?

 

Depends if you affix the decals to the side of the car...

 

I think thats what nissan has been doing. Same engine in all vehicles? that is BS

all vehicles from Inifiniti (fx, g35, M, qx, i35) have same engine. Even murano and "quest" has vq35de.
Dont be surprised if a soccer mom in automatic quest minivan smoke us from stop light

 

 

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slimsol how old are you?

 

Not too old. y? as i said i was just curious. you should correct me if i m wrong

 

the engines are not the same.... you wont be able to swap a maxima into a Z and have it work :/

 

Thanks,
this is what i wanted to know. i was doing some research on vq35de and found that all of above vehicles have same engines but wasnt able to find a reason between horsepower difference

 

THey are all VQ's but there are many VQ variants..........everything from all aluminum block and head to iron, to sleeved, to 3.5L to 4.0L VQ in the Xterra......etc, etc...

Nissan gave their engine designers the task to build a engine to take them through the years, last i remember checking a VQ varient is in 9 of 15 models........others obviously wouldn't have it, like a 4 banger sentra or a titan or armada, etc..

Nissan design criteria for the VQ - was "To build an engine to last in Excess of 200K miles"

Wards feels they hit it!
Google WARDS Automovite 13 years in a row NISSANS VQ......
http://www.allbusiness.com/services/...3983751-1.html

Is it an RB, or a 2JZ...........NO, but its still a reliable dammn good engine....decent platform to work off of.....
-J

 

+1 ^pretty much right on the money with that brief explanation

 

if im correct the Z is the only VQ RWD right? or is the xterra rwd

 

XTerra is RWD, well my Xterra is, along with it also being 4x4....
pathfinder with VQ is RWD
G35
FX35
to name a few....
-J

 

o gotcha... anybody know how the new 370z motor is holding up under boost or anything such as that

 

They're blowing up like a Michael Bay set.


It's a mean scene, man . . .

 

Michael Bay.... that sounds expensive!!??

 

Not exactly. The failures are far fewer than the sucesses.

 

OP its called a modular engine. nissan and the only company to do it, but even if they were they must be doing something right or else their cars wouldnt be so popular, espically the z/g