Doing Bonneville In A B12 Sentra
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I grew up in an era when 3100-pound cars came with rear-wheel drive, ground-breaking good looks and 300bhp. They'd have weighed less if it weren't for big engines, cast iron manifolds and steel turbochargers. Of course, if you couldn't afford one, there were cars like the Sentra SE-R. They cost half
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Our long-running Project Nissan Sentra SE-R bows out with a battle against its younger brothers
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Our long-running Project Nissan Sentra SE-R bows out with a battle against its younger brothers
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The SE-Rious SentraThe Los Angeles Auto Show has always had the disadvantage of occurring almost simultaneously with the larger, and consistently more spectacular, Detroit Auto Show. So this year, the LA show's organizers shoved it into December. The idea being to attract some real debuts. Here's on
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The introduction of the generation-six Nissan Sentra in 2007 marks the car's silver anniversary in the US. And for the first time, the new model's design has been specifically geared toward young American drivers. Ken Kcomt, chief product specialist responsible for the Sentra, says: "We wanted to br
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We take a look at the readers' rants, raves, and rides including Jonathan Ruhe's 2000 Nissan Sentra SE.
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SCC takes you through budget forced induction options for the Sentra SE-R
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A car means a lot to young people. A reliable set of wheels to take them wherever they want to go is something they covet from the first day their parents dropped them off at school. So when Tony Guerdo told his 16-year-old son, Shaun, he was going to take the kid's '91 Sentra to the track for some
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"Where is this?" I gasped, simultaneously thrilled and relieved at finally finding that some old Datsuns had been saved.Being an American Datsun geek, John Morton's '71 Trans Am 510 was, for me, the height of cool, but here in Japan it was the 510 Safari Rally cars that had all the glory. It was 199
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You read Sport Compact Car. You drool. You look at your bank account. You cry. Join the crowd. Not everyone can afford an EVO or STi. Hell, most of us can't even afford a modified Civic. So, if your automotive fantasies are constantly being interrupted by your financial reality, then perhaps it's ti
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This story begins with a crash, not in a car but on a mountain bike. Racing down the side of a mountain, I quickly found that an ber bike with 8 inches of suspension travel and disc brakes doesn't make up for a general lack of skill. The resulting crash left me with a damaged shoulder and a lingerin
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Nissan's return to professional road racing is rallied around this car. And expectations are high.
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It's amazing what changing a few gear teeth will do. The Spec V, in its original form, was a tire-shredding machine. First gear was so short, and torque output so high (180 lb-ft at the crank, says Nissan, 154 lb-ft at the wheels say us) that launching from a standstill inevitably unleashed a cacoph
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The Spec-V in this test had seen better days. The gearbox was full of crunch and the engine full of ping. On the dyno, we had to roll onto the throttle gently to avoid a strange, transient knock problem. Regardless, power output was among the healthiest we've
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Our much loved Project Rally Beater was hurt, but not beyond repair. It had a minor disagreement with a tree, a serious argument with a rock, and a rather painful scuffle with a berm. The ugly details are here, but the short version is that physics had not bee
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The California Rally Series starts brutally with one of the roughest rallies on the ProRally schedule. As an SCCA ProRally competitor, this is a big, two-day race. As a ClubRally competitor like us racing for CRS points, it's two separate rallies. That turns o
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What broke: If you think building a rally car is a lot of work, you should try maintaining one. Consider this running list of battle damage fair warning.
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Dirt gets everywhere. It fills the inside of your car, working its way into the carpet, the seats, piling up in the ventilation system. It waits, patiently, for you to clean the interior before blowing out all over your seats and carpet again. It gets in your
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Dirt gets everywhere. It fills the inside of your car, working its way into the carpet, the seats, piling up in the ventilation system. It waits patiently for you to clean the interior before blowing out all over your seats and carpet again.
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Far too often, compact sedans need the snot revved out of them to get any power; this 2.0-liter powerplant has surprising torque, yet with the aid of roller-rockers, impressive top-end power and refinement. Though one of the softer-sprung vehicles in the group
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The Sentra SE-R Spec-V is the performance bargain of the group. At only $16,900 it delivers hardware you seldom get for even $10,000 more. Take the helical limited-slip differential, for example. Five of our eight great rides are begging for this piece of hard
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Everything is a blur to Tim Mather. But Mather doesn't mind. For him, blur is a good thing. It's the way the world is supposed to look from behind the wheel of the hardest-working, multi-faceted, daily-driving rally/road racer that ever started life as a 1991 Nissan Sentra SE econobox.
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The Sentra SE-R Spec-V is the performance bargain of the group. At only $16,900 it delivers hardware you seldom get for even $10,000 more. Take the helical limited-slip differential, for example. Five of our eight great rides are begging for this piece of hardware, but on those cars you'll have to a
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This was the test from hell.
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