Courtesy Parts has their Nissan GT-R parts catalog online now. It’s pretty interesting to look at all the various diagrams for the GT-R’s VR38DETT motor… and I suppose the rest of the car if you’re into that sort of thing. Enjoy!
As a side note, I went through the entire motor hoping to find anything out of the ordinary, but unfortunately it is in fact just an engine. No car voodoo or Nissan wizardry to be found. Pretty basic stuff.
Did Nissan put a VK45DE into one of their GTRs? The VK45DE is already powering Nissan’s GTRs in the Super GT series, making well over 500hp naturally aspirated. So they obviously have the R&D from the Super GT cars, and they already know the VK can fit in something closely resembling a Nissan GTR. Maybe Nissan got bored one day?
Listen to these videos and judge for yourself.
HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC SOUND TEST:
Here’s what a VK45DE sounds like in a GT500 car:
Now listen to the V-Spec GTR:
Maybe I’m the last to know, but I just found out that the 2008 “Nissan GT-R” competing in the Super GT GT500 class is powered by a V8 VK45DE (the motor out of a Infiniti FX45, et al), as opposed to any sort of twin turbo V6 configuration you might except: IE, the VR38DETT out of the new Nissan GTR or the VQ30DETT out of the previous generation Nissan Super GT cars. Continue reading after the jump.
Here are some scenes of a VR38DETT being assembled at the Nissan Yokohama plant. Those cylinder heads look pretty impressive.
