Originally Posted by
boost_boy
Man, some of those fols are real knuckle heads . I see a bunch of ignorant kids who just don't know any better. I refuse to entertain them, but you quote me: After 16 years of wrenching on nissans, 9 years of toying with the CA series, 7 years of wrencing on SRs, 6 years of wrenching on KAs, and honorable mentions are the VG sereies as well as the RB and the GA, the SR is the cheapest built and the worst designed of the bunch. The KA is also an attempt by nissan to try and build cheap low maintenance engines by using timing chains and big displacement bores to make torque and hp, and for the most part it worked. It worked at the expense of reliability, difficulty of servicing, and cost of repair. If you've never owned a CA or owned one and blew it up, that's your fault. Srs blow-up all the time, spit-up rocker arms like a 1 month old baby does his/her formula, and have many owners on these forums combing for answeres to their dilemmas.
One would have to ask, why isn't the RB series, which is nissan's pride and joy as well as the VG series, designed with timing chains and rocker arms? The SR and KA was designed in era where our beloved nissan company was having major financial troubles. If you're broke, you're going to do things a little more conservatively. That explains the massive market for afternarket parts for both the KA, SR, and all honda engines "They Need it" . Last I remember, the RB and VG series resembles that of the CA. We even share the same oil filter, coil packs, and the same theory from factory. The SR is on it's on with borrowed technology from the CA and other nissan predecessors who have paved the way for the SR.
So if CAs suck, then the SR ain't nothing but a much cheaper deep throater. The CA is what it is 'An icon' that you new school SR jocks need not look down on. With my CA powered sentras, I've whacked many SR/haltech powered SE-R's as well as 240s, so it's not what you got, but who's got it. And I drive around with better than 350hp with A/C, p/s, and a full interior. I'm not saying SRs suck, but in the hands of scrubs, it's just another nissan engine to me.
P.S. pass it on to your local forum..................
Dee
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