[Bill Roberts]

Yes sir ree...you can lay down over 200HP to the rear wheels with that configuration. They've been doing it on trucks for years and years. You also can get there without the need of the carb route but you will need to port match your intake with your head and do some intake and combustion chamber porting (and bowls), shaping and polishing.

Since all a motor is...is a pump, if you have more coming in, more displacement, more rev. you will make power and lots of it. My intake was enlarged quite a bit as were the intake and exhaust ports.

Personally, carbs can get you in the 250HP range but I would stick to Fuel Injection. I personally don't care for carbs..although they do make more overall power.

My Current setup is bored and stroked to 2.55 Ltrs. and I get no overheating.

The best search is to do one for nissan trucks..hardbody, KA24E mods. What applies to mud bogging equally applies to horsepower gains for the street.

With your above sequence of changes, you will enjoy the potential of the KAE.

With carbs, the ECU can be bypassed for fuel management...although..I get lost here as well. Truck sites will have some info.

Most of the work that was done to my car was before I bought it but I have some receipts. More was done later.

KAE is a very capable motor..I would not let anyone say that it is a POS, Mine runs like a scalded ape. Built right..even stroked, they can rev to 8K RPM...but mine litterally is tapering off fast past the mid 6K range (67, 6800.).and 7300 is as high as I will shift. Going from 7300 to 8000 is a waste of time...right now...just over the top at that point.


With compression that high...you would need to idle at about 1300...and run the best fuel you can get of course.

Their are 300HP N/A KAE's out there.

good luck...it can work.