Primera = G20?

[Primera90]

Is the Nissan Primera basically the same car as the Infiniti G20?

I've just bought a 1990 Nissan Primera with the SR20DE motor and a 5 speed manual transmission.

Steve

[G-Forces]

The G20 was introduced in 1991 and all models have the SR20DE motor. As far as I know the G20 and Primera are basically the same except for regional differences (driving side, emissions, safety stuff)

Jason Steeves
www.g20.net

[carman]

Primera and G20 are exactly the same cars except for some very minor things:



The top is Primera and the bottom is G20.

[primera man]

in a nut shell....yes

[ales]

Hi everybody.

Well, I live in Estonia (Yurp and I own a '91 Primera. I think the G20 came only as a sedan with SR20DE under the hood. In Yurp the primera (P10) was sold either as a sedan, a hatchback or a station wagon (I think the chassis is called W10). As for engines, the Primera had either SR20DE, SR20Di (the one I have - it has a single injector and 85kW) and a couple of 1.6l engines (including the one with a carburettor). There are a lot of diesels here in estonia as well (2.0 N/A diesels). Also the trim level was different - with or w/o electric windows, ABS and rear disk brakes. I think G20 did not have as much options.

Hope this helps,

Alex Lamus

[igor@af]

Welcome everybody who is new here!
Im Igor and Im the admin.
Alex, I am Ukrainian, and my mom was born in Estonia :sun:

I now live in the US though.....


and to confirm it again,
"Primera = G20" is a true statement
except for some very minor things.

[Primera90]

I'm in New Zealand, we didn't actually get the P10 Primera new here. Lucky for us, the Japanese get sick of their cars after about 6 years and send most of them here There are now thousands of P10s here.

They seem to come with 2 motors:

1.8 Twin Cam 16 valve Efi
2.0 Twin Cam 16 valve Efi, which I think is always the SR20DE

The Japanese love automatics though, it took nearly 2 hours of crusing the car yards to find a good 5 speed 2.0

The Japanese also gave themselves the best of everything, the Primera here comes standard with air conditioning and power windows/mirrors.

Steve

[ales]

Yeah, and there was also an AWD P10 available in Japan. Boy, I would have liked to have one of those. And put an SR20VE engine in there as well. Sigh

[Primera90]

Yeah I saw a couple of those, both were AWD with a full leather interior... They were only US$4,500 each but they were automatic

Steve

[G-Forces]

I guess every AWD primera is automatic. I know a guy in Japan and he had one before he ran it into a curb. He was always complaining that you couldn't get the AWD in a manual tranmission. I don't know Nissans reasonings for this. I would love to have a P11 AWD 6-speed w/SR20DET. :smoker2:

Oh well here's to dreamin'

Jason
www.g20.net

[ales]

Jason, are you talking about Cameron?

Yes, and a 6-speed AWD, with probably a VET (is there such a thing?), as opposed to DET... sigh again

Have there ever been AWD Nissans with a manual gearbox? What about Sunny GTI-R? Probabl someone with a thinck wallet could perform this "dream" conversion...

What was the topic again? Oh, yeah, the G20 is the top of the line Primera

[G-Forces]

Yeah that's Camron. How do you know him?

The Pulsar GTi-R comes in a manual tranny so I know they are out there. Problem is, for example. Even though the North American Sentra tranny will fit on a G20 engine and vise-versa it's the suspension that 'plugs' into the tranny that's a problem. But yeah, I think with enough money someone could make a manual AWD G20. *drool*

The VET is real. It's in the Japanese X-trail and pumps out a nice 280hp stock. *double drool*

BTW one of my best friends in from Tallinn, Estonia. Don't suppose you know him too?

[hotani]

if the g20 had AWD I would have trouble deciding between that and an A4 - it would certainly have more room!!

My g20 does not even have the limited slip dif, so I pretty much try to avoid driving it in snow - usually take the 2k passat with snows :sun:

[primera man]

WHEN CHECKING THE LOCO CAR MARKETS ABOUT 2 MOTHS AGO, I DID CAME ACROSS A P10 AWD 5 SPEED LIFT BACK....(TALK ABOUT FIND SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY!!!)
IT HAD 4 HEADLIGHTS ALSO.....NEVER SEEN.
ASK THE SALES REP AND FOUND OUT IT WAS IMPORTED FROM THE U.K AS A 4WD GTi......COULD NOT HELP MY SELF FROM TAKING IT FOR A SKID....IT BLEW ME AWAY !!!

CHEERS
THE PRIMERA MAN

[ales]

Originally posted by G-Forces
Yeah that's Camron. How do you know him?

The Pulsar GTi-R comes in a manual tranny so I know they are out there. Problem is, for example. Even though the North American Sentra tranny will fit on a G20 engine and vise-versa it's the suspension that 'plugs' into the tranny that's a problem. But yeah, I think with enough money someone could make a manual AWD G20. *drool*

The VET is real. It's in the Japanese X-trail and pumps out a nice 280hp stock. *double drool*

BTW one of my best friends in from Tallinn, Estonia. Don't suppose you know him too?

I know CamEron from the se-r mailing list. I have not posted there, but I have exchanged a couple of emails with Cameron (that's why I'm sure there's an "E" in his name

280hp is nice indeed, but I think the X-trail is a very new model, so the engine can be bought only new. Too bad I'm still at the University

As for your Estonian friend, if he has a Primera, I don't know him. Although Estonia is a small country, and you never know...