Enthusiasts recognize this 3.5-liter engine for its immediately recognizable V6 warble that may go away automobile followers in little doubt as to what they’re listening to. Whether the engine is in a Nissan or an Infiniti, in the event you’ve heard one as soon as and paid consideration to the sound (ideally coming from a automobile with a freer-flowing exhaust that helps carry out a number of the extra guttural notes), then you definately will not neglect it.

Driving a Nissan 350Z with a inventory engine is a vastly pleasurable expertise. The engine is not particularly highly effective, however it pulls cleanly all the best way to its inventory redline of 6,500 rpm, and because of variable valve timing, it additionally feels torquey decrease down within the revs once you’re simply cruising round.

Nissan revised the engine in 2006 and bumped up its energy to 309 horsepower, which arrived greater at 6,800 rpm as a substitute of 6,200 rpm, and torque additionally went up barely. The greatest information with this up to date model of the VQ35DE was that you possibly can rev it even greater, to 7,500 rpm earlier than the rev limiter kicked in.