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jamie@thefatgarage

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15th Sep, 2011 at 12:18:22pm

Has anyone done research into the Nissan engines that were "sort of" derived from the BLMC A-Series under license? I've just been reading about it on wikipedia and a few links from there and it all sounds interesting but is very vague. Could it be a new source of cheap and easy(er) crossflow and/or 16v heads? Anyone done any measuring?

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I can't find anything on the search button.


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15th Sep, 2011 at 12:26:27pm

I tried the same Jamie and drew a blank.

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Rotherham, South Yorkshire

15th Sep, 2011 at 12:50:20pm

I have seen a nissan head on an A series. Had a very funny chain drive arrangement, but looked doable.

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

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Stoke on Trent

15th Sep, 2011 at 12:55:49pm

I just like the idea of the nissan micra engine and box in a mini, but be a shame to ditch the aseries.

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On 10th Mar, 2012 Joe C said:
TBH peple stick it everywhere... and theres merits to each...

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15th Sep, 2011 at 02:25:22pm

Several Australian A35 club members have reported fitting Nissan(Datsun) engines and boxes into their cars and there is also one in S.Africa.
The engines and gearboxes are close copies of the A series, but Im not sure of the models concerned, which will, in any case, be rarer than the proverbial, I fancy.

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Preston On The Brook

15th Sep, 2011 at 08:35:33pm

I see nothing but vague similarities with the Datsun A12, which is still pushrod engine. The head is not cross flow but it does at least have the right number of ports.

On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
 Is it A-Series only? I think it should be...
So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'...


On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........

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17th Sep, 2011 at 09:16:33am

Ive used the Dastun A12 pistons in some of my mini engines, the STD size is 73mm and the block has to be decked by about 6mm and 998 push-rods have to be used.

The engine is of similar design but the dimensions are totally different.

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19th Sep, 2011 at 10:22:49pm

i'm in the middle of a micra conversion

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21st Sep, 2011 at 08:29:14pm

I looked into it.
There was a Datsun Coupe with a 110 and then 120 engine.

They have an alloy head and the proper number of ports but that is fpretty much all I found out.

Those are very very very rare ! (in France)
Not to mention spare engines !

Maybe Belgium is a good place to look at as it is where there were the most jap car.

In my book it is a lot of trouble for an engine which is just a little better than the A-series.

Rusty by nature

On 23rd Jun, 2008 paul wiginton said:
They said "That sounds rough mate." I said "Cheers it cost me a fortune to make it sound like that!"

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