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bestatchess · 04-23-2004, 08:24 AM

Here is a quote from Nissan's PR guy:

"Nissan pegged plenty of performance benchmarks with the Titan because they knew the Titan had to be good to enough show up on the radar of domestic truck shoppers. “We don’t have a lot of credibility in this segment,” said Larry Dominque, Chief Product Specialist, Nissan Titan. Their goals for building the Titan were to make an expressive shape that had the best in class power, fuel economy and driving range.

To that end, the Titan comes with a 5.6-liter V-8 rated at more than 300 horsepower and 375 pound-feet of torque. Loosely based on the Infiniti V-8, Nissan calls this iteration the “Endurance” V-8. The 300 hp is achieved without the use of variable valve timing; Dominique says with VVT the engine can “easily make 30 or 40 hp more,” and also notes that a supercharger will fit neatly in the V-8’s 90-degree valley. The V-8 does have other semi-exotic hardware, though, including a microfinished forged steel crankshaft and moly-coated pistons."

So where is that neatly fitting supercharger? That should push things up to around 400 HP. Or are we forever doomed to eat the dust of SS Silverado's and even blown Tundras??

04-23-2004, 08:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
bestatchess Super Moderator iTrader: (3) Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 10,451 Thanks: 26 Thanked 393 Times in 263 Posts	Where Is The Supercharger ? Here is a quote from Nissan's PR guy: "Nissan pegged plenty of performance benchmarks with the Titan because they knew the Titan had to be good to enough show up on the radar of domestic truck shoppers. “We don’t have a lot of credibility in this segment,” said Larry Dominque, Chief Product Specialist, Nissan Titan. Their goals for building the Titan were to make an expressive shape that had the best in class power, fuel economy and driving range. To that end, the Titan comes with a 5.6-liter V-8 rated at more than 300 horsepower and 375 pound-feet of torque. Loosely based on the Infiniti V-8, Nissan calls this iteration the “Endurance” V-8. The 300 hp is achieved without the use of variable valve timing; Dominique says with VVT the engine can “easily make 30 or 40 hp more,” and also notes that a supercharger will fit neatly in the V-8’s 90-degree valley. The V-8 does have other semi-exotic hardware, though, including a microfinished forged steel crankshaft and moly-coated pistons." So where is that neatly fitting supercharger? That should push things up to around 400 HP. Or are we forever doomed to eat the dust of SS Silverado's and even blown Tundras?? __________________ Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causus.