Has anyone else ever noticed anywhere but the United States get the best cars? Almost all of the Pulsars and Sunnys in the UK and Europe had the CA-series in them prior to 1989! Why did Nissan give us the shaft here in the US? In our Sport Coupe, they best you could get was a wimpy E-series.
I don't know why the US Cars have the lower Engine Models, but Japan has the Best B12's
The Nismo Versin with the CA18DE has there 128PS, and they get an another ignition system.....
Has anyone else ever noticed anywhere but the United States get the best cars? Almost all of the Pulsars and Sunnys in the UK and Europe had the CA-series in them prior to 1989! Why did Nissan give us the shaft here in the US? In our Sport Coupe, they best you could get was a wimpy E-series.
Don't forget you could also get the "timing chain thowing" GA16i!
Has anyone else ever noticed anywhere but the United States get the best cars? Almost all of the Pulsars and Sunnys in the UK and Europe had the CA-series in them prior to 1989! Why did Nissan give us the shaft here in the US? In our Sport Coupe, they best you could get was a wimpy E-series.
The european market will pay for peformance and americans wanted cheap, practical grocery go-getters hence the reason why our little japanese-based sentras were given a much stronger power plant in their sunny cars (as an option). Keep in mind, the CA DOHC series engines were technologically advanced marvels that were expensive to build. So just throwing them in cars that were going to a country that is generally cheap when it comes to 4cylinder foreign cars was not practical for the Japanese, hence the reason you got the crappy E and GA series work-horses. Oh yeah, don't forget emissions as the CA is not the most environmentally friendly engine, either.
Dee
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You must pay to play! Boost ain't cheap! {x2 B12 Sentras with CA18DET engines}.
I personally just love the CA-series; they are amazing engines. My friend just picked up an '85 200SX S12 for $400 with a running but in serious disrepair CA20E. Our plan is to drop in a CA18DET and use it as either a rally or drag car (haven't decided which one yet). We are going to keep the CA20E and have the bottom-end rebuild to handle boost, and slap the DOHC head on it and a spare T25 turbo he has laying around later on. It will most likely find its way as either a replacement engine or maybe even in an '89 240SX that is currently without a heart.
The european market will pay for peformance and americans wanted cheap, practical grocery go-getters hence the reason why our little japanese-based sentras were given a much stronger power plant in their sunny cars (as an option). Keep in mind, the CA DOHC series engines were technologically advanced marvels that were expensive to build. So just throwing them in cars that were going to a country that is generally cheap when it comes to 4cylinder foreign cars was not practical for the Japanese, hence the reason you got the crappy E and GA series work-horses. Oh yeah, don't forget emissions as the CA is not the most environmentally friendly engine, either.
Dee
The european market will pay for peformance and americans wanted cheap, practical grocery go-getters hence the reason why their little japanese-based sunny/sentras were given a much stronger power plant than our sentra cars (as an option).
This is a correction to my previous post because the first sentence confused me a bit
Dee
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You must pay to play! Boost ain't cheap! {x2 B12 Sentras with CA18DET engines}.
Hi, I#m new here. New member from Germany
Martin
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