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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
Ah, that is the VG30DE. It is very similar to the engine in my Villager, but it isn't the one in my 98 Max. Wonder if I could track down one of those intakes for the Villager. FWIW the intake runner, and I'm certain the distributorless ignition, boosted the power by 40 hp over the one in my Villager.
My Max has a VQ30DE, which had a variable intake available in the Middle Eastern Maxima, but not in the US.
That is a good pic of our car in the Wiki article!
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Well, about the variable length... Tuning is not that difficult. If you were going to invest the time, it would be a day on a dyno to program it. I just am not sure that it would be worth that much.
As for Blanchard's comment about narrow torque curve of gas engines, I would disagree. Can you show me a graph of a narrow torque curve.