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[quote="Short Hand":4cdf0]im talking about a performance car negine, not some truck engine. Japenese trucks suck shit. If you want a truck buy a fucking ford. If they built a real performance v8 i assure you it would rape any american muscle on the market. The fact is the Engine in the Skyline is pure perfection in engineering, while these truck engines are hastily readied and designed in comparision. Were not tlaking about trucks here, lets tlak about a performance car one. Which they haven'tbuilt yet so its really hard to say. But when they do I assure you it will shut your face up.[/quote:4cdf0]

I was talking about muscle cars. And what kinda engines went in muscle cars? What kinda engines works well in trucks? The same. Large displacement which equal LOW end torque. My old truck (71 Chevy c-10[1/2 ton]) had a 402 ci v8 (the direct decendent of the 396). Modified extensively. It gave me about 450 ft-lbs of torque, all availible near the bottom end of the rpm range(about 2000rpms). That much torque being availible so low means you don't have to have fancy close-ratio transmissions. It means you don't have to keep the engine pegged to keep the speedo spinnin. And that means reliability.

Now all that was talking about a truck engine. True, but the fact is that those early muscle cars (1965-73) used truck engines. They were sometimes, (in the case of "sport" models like the SS, RS, and Boss) even MORE powerful and torquey. And if you wanted more, all you had to do was bolt on better headers, intake, carbs, ect... Hp is a number taken at the flywheel, it means next to nothing. What turns the rear ( Rear > Front) wheels is torque and how readily its availible.