they arent THAT significantly different.  im wondering if now i need rods for 450+ whp

I dunno, it me, they look a lot different and beefier.  And they attach differently to the crank.

cute02spec wrote:

I dunno, it me, they look a lot different and beefier.  And they attach differently to the crank.

How are they attaching to the crank differently?

STOPSpec wrote:

cute02spec wrote:

I dunno, it me, they look a lot different and beefier.  And they attach differently to the crank.

How are they attaching to the crank differently?

the diagram shows bolts going through the top of the big end down to the cap. not a bolt that goes into the bigend.

again, that needs to be confirmed, those those pictures don't really do much

So you recomended , If I go turbo  and I have the oportunity to change the rods and cam get the 2007 . The springs : the B16 or vq35hr. All those parts are direct swap.

I check in courtesyparts.com and they have:
SENTRA SPEC-V 2007   rod sku# 10101-B16u001 $ 71.55 ea.=$286.20 + shipping
SENTRA SPEC-V 2007  cams sku# 13020-B16u002 $ 188.21 +shipping
VQ35DE springs sku# 13203-233002 $ 5.07 ea=$81.12 + shipping
If anyone can verify if I get correct parts

hxv00p wrote:

I check in courtesyparts.com and they have:
SENTRA SPEC-V 2007   rod sku# 10101-B16u001 $ 71.55 ea.=$286.20 + shipping
SENTRA SPEC-V 2007  cams sku# 13020-B16u002 $ 188.21 +shipping
VQ35DE springs sku# 13203-233002 $ 5.07 ea=$81.12 + shipping
If anyone can verify if I get correct parts

if you want em that bad, i can get em for 220+tax shipping and paypal(i dunno mayb will be an extra 15-20 bucks total?)


directly from nissan, cuz of a homie hookup


and i wont make any money off you, im not like that, ill pass on the homie hookup for you

Big J wrote:

The rods are reinforced in all the areas that count. The side profile alone is an amazing improvment. If you get hook up pricing, they are less than $50 apiece, which means you could pick up 3-4 SETS for what an aftermarket rod set costs. The first gen rods will support well into the 300hp and 300ft/lbs range with good tuning, they are made from a very good chrommoly steel alloy, that's the main reason the little weinny rods do so well. If you do the math that so many people hate, there is about a 100% increases in tensile loads making the jump from 6200 to a 7000 rpm redline. The main force designers look at are tensile loads because they are the highest the rods sees. The compressive force created by the turbo doesn't come close to the tensile loads near TDC on the the exhaust stroke. Because the rods are designed to deal with an extra 100% or so increase in tensile loads, they will fare better in most aspects and should support 400ft/lbs. My $.02. I plan to use these rods exclusivly when I build motors for my personal cars. They are forged chromemolly steel rods.

Hey so your saying that these rods should be able to support up to 400HP or no?

BLKSpecV101 wrote:

Big J wrote:

The rods are reinforced in all the areas that count. The side profile alone is an amazing improvment. If you get hook up pricing, they are less than $50 apiece, which means you could pick up 3-4 SETS for what an aftermarket rod set costs. The first gen rods will support well into the 300hp and 300ft/lbs range with good tuning, they are made from a very good chrommoly steel alloy, that's the main reason the little weinny rods do so well. If you do the math that so many people hate, there is about a 100% increases in tensile loads making the jump from 6200 to a 7000 rpm redline. The main force designers look at are tensile loads because they are the highest the rods sees. The compressive force created by the turbo doesn't come close to the tensile loads near TDC on the the exhaust stroke. Because the rods are designed to deal with an extra 100% or so increase in tensile loads, they will fare better in most aspects and should support 400ft/lbs. My $.02. I plan to use these rods exclusivly when I build motors for my personal cars. They are forged chromemolly steel rods.

Hey so your saying that these rods should be able to support up to 400HP or no?

They should be able to support well past 400whp.

pimpsmurf has been running 18psi on his for awhile... I think he'd go higher but ran into MAF issues.

I spun a bearing on my first QR. 2nd one I broke a rod in half, sawed through both sides(front and back) of the block on piston 1. I gave up on the QR after the second motor(and an expired warrenty ).

problem with the pistons is both... weak ring lands means that bad tuning can cause it to crack which will directly cause problems to the piston rings if I'm not mistaken... becuz nissan decided to move the first compression ring higher on the piston( emissions related[ trap for hydrocarbons]) there isnt alot of meat there and under alot of heat and load can crack or worse

^^ gurov was going to look into getting all of our pistons coated.  i will have to check if that's still going to happen...

cute02spec wrote:

^^ gurov was going to look into getting all of our pistons coated.  i will have to check if that's still going to happen...

Are you still using factory pistons? I am probably wrong, but I was thinking that reflecting the heat off of the piston instead of the piston absorbing the heat would help against cracking. i don't know, just aa thought.

all the cool kids have forged low compression pistons

its the bandsentra okay, which just so happens to be boosted and built haha

blackout_V wrote:

so do these 07+ pistons swap straight into the 04-06 specv blocks or is there more to this then just buying them and bolting them in

+1??

Last edited by SE-R RACER (2008-12-04 07:14:22)

will the 07 rods work on a 02spec v? i have a 04 v and blew the engine and i swapped a 02 in. i hope i can still use the 07 rods