{"id":15966,"date":"2017-05-05T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=15966"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:54:38","slug":"starter-guide-for-increasing-power-in-a-sr20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=15966","title":{"rendered":"Starter Guide for Increasing Power in a SR20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14733\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=14733\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1982 Toyota Sarlet with a SR20DET 03\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1982 Toyota Sarlet with a SR20DET inline-four&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?resize=620%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1982 Toyota Sarlet with a SR20DET inline-four\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?resize=620%2C349&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drifted wrote a nice guide for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drifted.com\/9-step-sr20-tuning-guide-for-peak-performance\/\">increasing power in your SR20 inline-four<\/a>. The guide focuses on nine steps the author believes are the simplest steps to take to increase power. The guide also recommends products which gives you a starting point for your own research. The steps add up to a SR20 that produces 295 horsepower (300 ps) to the flywheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drifted wrote a nice guide for increasing power in your SR20 inline-four. The guide focuses on nine steps the author believes are the simplest steps to take to increase power. The guide also recommends products which gives you a starting point for your own research. The steps add up to a SR20 that produces 295&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=15966\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starter Guide for Increasing Power in a SR20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1982-Toyota-Sarlet-with-a-SR20DET-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110792,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=110792","url_meta":{"origin":15966,"position":0},"title":"Datsun 510 with a Turbo SR20","author":"swaptastic","date":"January 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"John Healey from V-Sport Australia has always loved Datsun vehicles and owns several. 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