Thursday, November 24, 2022

Nissan VQ37VHR Valve Cover Gasket and Plug Seal











Unlike the VQ35DE series of engine, the Nissan 370Z Z34, Skyline G37 and Infinity Q50 is using the VQ37VHR engine, the rocker cover gasket may be just looks like other normal rocker cover gasket, but the plug seal is not using the 6 pieces type of oil seal type seal which use in the VQ35DE series.

The below photo is show this plug seal looks like. And the photo below the plug seal showing one side of the valve cover gasket for this V6 engine.




 

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Nissan Primera P12 SR20VE Overhaul Gasket Kit





















Nissan Primera P12 model with SR20VE engine is said to be most common engine with NEO VVL (Nissan Ecology Oriented Variable Valve and Timing).

There are another 2 type of SR series engine with VVL which is SR16VE and SR20VET, SR16VE gasket content is mostly similar to the SR20VE which there are slight different in intake manifold gasket design, and the cylinder head gasket for SR16VE is carbon material while SR20VE is multi layer steel type of head gasket.

For SR20VET the basic gasket content is exactly same with the SR20VE but may be have extra few pieces of gasket for the turbocharger side.