Originally Posted by
B15NewYork Things are happening, slowly but surely. The QR is a great motor, it's not the almighty fanboi SR, but it does have a strong following AND IT IS VERY CAPABLE.
I think the point that you and most on the QR forums are missing is that reliability aside, stock flaws/positives aside, dollar for dollar the SR-VE has
as of now been proven to be the more capable engine. There's no way to dance around that. Numbers don't lie.
To make power to need to get alot of air in and you need to get it out as fast as possible. That's were head design comes into play and r/s ratio factors into the engines overall power potential. I'm not going to post on comparisons on r/s ratio's of the two engines because we all know the QR's is horrible (and yes, believe it or not you do need 8k+ rpm to make power) but look @ these numbers:
Comparing Flow:
Stock VE heads flow
260in/
180ex cmf's.
Travis @ fi-r's stage 3 QR head flows
264in/
211ex cfm's.
A comparable VE head to fi-r's stage 3 QR head flows
398+/-in/
290+/-ex cfm's.
Comparing Power:
The highest whp n/a QR is still RTR's Sunbelt built engine that make 227whp (258hp on the engine dyno) w/ and EFI Tech/Motec ecu on 104oc. There are more than a handful of budget/stock parts built 2.0 VE's matching or making close to that power on chipped ecus and pump gas. Comparing the Sunbelt/RTR's QR25 #'s to the 2.2, 2.3 & 2.4 VE guys wouldn't even be fair.
I'm sorry QR guys, but the #'s don't lie.