engine harshness at high revs

Mr. C

IMO, what's half-assed is Nissan's insistence to continually update the VQ rather than completely redesign the engine. The fact that Nissan added VVEL and has stated they'll add DI soon to their V6 engine range indicates Nissan is never going to redesign this motor, leaving buyers stuck with a coarse V6 engine well into the next decade.

This is a major design flaw. Pretty idiotic for Nissan to run around touting how they built a legitimate Cayman competitor, somehow I doubt Cayman owners ever have to deal with any engine roughness. All I'm saying is Nissan could and should have done better, for $30k+ buyers shouldn't have this problem.

VVEL isn't a brand new technology, BMW's Valvetronic has been around for some time. And Toyota's Valvematic system came out the same time as VVEL.

tbonesteak

other variations of the vq aren't coarse. this is the only one that's coarse. my vq35de in my maxima is smooth as butter but then again it doesn't produce the amount of powers the vhr does. from what i understand, camshaft-less technology that vvel features is not found in bmws and toyotas. correct me if i'm wrong. vq works. why change it? the design is so good that it's winning awards left and right every single year. no need to start on a new platform.

tbonesteak

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zZSportZz

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tbonesteak

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