Well i guess its time to say my goodbye to you awesome guys here at the V6 message boards at thirdgen, its been an awesome, long, fun, hard, challenging, educational, and rememerable journey. I am sorry to say that i am trading in Carmen (my 92 camaro 3.1L auto) for a 2005 Sentra Sepc V. I know I know how could i switch sides?! I loved my camaro, but at the same time i hated the damn thing, kinda like my girlfriend but im not getting rid of her, ive finally come to the reality of my wallet. My camaro with only 100,600 miles was still regularly in the shot with repairs, or in my driveway on jack stand! So im switching sides to the more reliable, efficient, better engineered, and pretty much faster side. So im saying my goodbye because i doubt ill be back with questions for my Spec V but ill occasionally check up on the noobs and the threads they have posted and try to help them out. But as for now, good bye everyone i will miss this site

BYE!!

I guess rather than worring about hp and tq you'll now be more worried about underglow, new big rims, and painting everything in your engine bay red, lol. You may be fater now, but you now blend in with every other rice burning d-bag I went to highschool with.

we will hold a place for you. 3rd gens are like heroin. you might be able to stop once in a while but eventually you will just need another taste.

This is very true.

I'd say F bodies. I had a 96 Z28 in high school, went 5 years without one, then bought my old 'bird cuz I started having dreams about Camaros... sad isn't it?

My wife considered a Spec V until she drove it. Said it drove like her old Saturn SL2; rough ride & poor handling. I checked the Sentra message boards and the "Hecho en Mexico" econobox is pretty much the lowest quality Nissan made.
Still, its newer, so it should be more reliable for now.
Have fun with it I guess.

i wanted one from the day i first saw it. bulge tires, muscle fenders, bucket seats - and a 327 that ran and ran. and 4 on the floor. wow. it was the first camaro built after i got out of HS - heck it was the first camaro built and i have bought 7 of them new. ok one was a bird for the wife.
i love my camaro and when i told my wife i wanted to be burried in it she said with everything i was doing to it she was going to sell it. i thought about it and sais sell it - have a nice vacation - and toss my body out in some national forest and let the wild dogs have a good feed.

but until then i was driving my camaro.

Sir you were 100% right....here we are 3 years later...i still have my spec v that i spoke of, and i didnt rice it out at all i turbo charged it myself, did everything myself and was able to get 300hp at the wheels on the stock engine and 30 mpg....




but you were absolutely right on wanting another taste...even though i switch to Nissan i am still a camaro guy at heart!!
i loved my 3gen so much and i miss it soo much and want it back every day, i am considering getting another one for a project...now that i am much more experienced with turbos i am entertaining the idea of getting another v-6 and putting a turbo on that one...i miss my baby

[QUOTE=ckyfreak2010;5151355]Sir you were 100% right....here we are 3 years later...i still have my spec v that i spoke of, and i didnt rice it out at all i turbo charged it myself, did everything myself and was able to get 300hp at the wheels on the stock engine and 30 mpg....



what kinda dyno did you have that on that gave you 300RWHP? Maybe you could post the Dyno sheet

i would like to know also. 300hp at the wheels by just adding a turbo? dyno sheet is needed

dute sereosly from performance rear weel drive sport car u muving to 4 door sedan front weel drive...u gona be so sorry after a wile...and if u think that your nissan will never brake u are very very wrong...it will even cost u more than the camaro to fix it...peace

i cannot prove that it has 300 hp, this is just an estimated number because here is dyno sheet of when i was on 6psi and it was 105 degrees in the shop when it was dynoed....since then i have done other modifications and increased the boost to 9 psi...and most of the guys on my sentra forum who are on around 8-9 psi are pushing out 290-315 hp.....and i never said my sentra would never break, who ever i know for a fact it is significantly more reliable....seeing how i have about as many miles on it as i did with my camaro and i have never had to fix anything...and this was performance on a dyno pack dyno at JE Import Performance

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....00531900923131

if this proves anything, heres a clip of me easily hitting 150mph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkYzNsh_98

@ SpicySkater...you obviously didnt read my post, i do want another camaro...but my camaro was in no way a sports car, it couldnt handle it was slow, had an open rear end....my spec is an autocrass monster, it came from the factory with LSD, its got almost 3 times as much power as the camaro, its a 6 speed rather than an autoer matic, its smaller and lighter than my camaro and destroys it in the 1/4 mile...i am not sorry at all that i switch to my sentra.....but i still want another camaro i just like those cars...but from a performance stand point its not contest lol

from that sheet, it shows around 262hp on motor. which is not 262 at the wheels. im not bashing as i was a tuner guy before. you lose a good amount of power through the trans. to me to have 300 at the wheels, i would need around 375+ on motor. those arent exact numbers, but to show the lose of hp from flywheel to wheels.

i know it says flywheel hp and tq, but they said its just an error and its wheel horse power, and i know you lose power through drive train...roughly 14% in FWD 20% in rwd and 25%+ in AWD

dute i come from europe and all my live i been working on german,japan russian french cars u name it...no hard feelings japan cars are nice but they break a lot too...and u telling me u have this fast sentra i wont argue its fast...but its not rear weel drive and v spec as long as i know is four weel drive only at start and in ur case afterwords should be front drive corekt me if i am wrong!!! again no hard feelings japan cars are fun but i dont want to deal whit themfor couple of reasons...weak body if for some reason u crash it turns to pan cake,very light car unstable at hidh speed, especialy unstable on wet road...and turbo 300 hp small engine it wont last long!!! again its ur choice i dont judge u its fun car

i cant wait to get mine done. my bottom end is getting redone soon. i should break the 400rwhp. as long as you enjoy your ride, thats all that matters. import or muscle

There seems to be a lot of jealous people in this thread that don't like the fact that the I4 in question is putting out more than their V6.

There are decades of developmental differences between the two engines. As technology and research advance, power output per cubic inch, or centimeter, depending on how you want to measure it, keeps rising as the years go on. A friend of mine is a die hard Honda guy, he has had a few dyno proven 300+ HP Honda I4s, and they didn't need a whole lot to get there. His latest is a supercharged 2.0L 2008 Civic Si, that we bolted the supercharger on in about 6 hours, this one IIRC laid down 318 HP to the wheels, stock engine, just a bolt on supercharger kit, exhaust system and tune. It, along with the rest of his cars have been and are reliable. Basically what I'm getting at, is just because you may not like it, doesn't mean it's unreliable, or not able to produce numbers that you don't want to see from it.