good to hear on the weight and fit.



as far as the speed loss goes...you can't compensate by "turning it up", because adding extra power doesn't overcome the fact that the diesel motor turns far less RPM's at redline than the gasoline motor. it'll help you get up to that limit faster, but, you've still got a RPM limitation to deal with.



Comparing, the VQ40DE, it's a loss of 3500rpms...I'm not sure what the stock 3.3L in the first gen had for a rev limiter, but, that's almost half the RPM's, which translates to half the speed when you run out of RPM's in top gear. I'll assume the gear ratios on the transmission are steeper through the mid-high gears, but, only a bit of research can show you the answer to that.

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