Nissan only made about six different camshafts across all years, Japan-market and North American-market. Camshaft Part Numbers
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The parts books are usually fairly clear with their 'up to' & 'from' dates so without seeing the book it's hard to tell just what it means.

The 1200 GX used only one part number for the cam from start to finish.

My tune-up book fortunately lists the valve events for the stock & GX cams, but does not mention if the measurements are taken at the lifter, or the valve. It does however nominate the "Valve clearance when checking the items shown in the chart"
The clearance of 0.35mm for the two cams in question would be irrelevant if the cam event check was done at the lifter as per insustry standard.

They are listed as follows.

One carb-use std cam. 13001- H1000
Working angle [duration] 248
Intake opens 14 BTDC Intake closes 54 ABDC
Exhaust opens 56 BBDC Exhaust closes 12 ATDC
This means that overlap would be 26 degrees.
Valve lift 8mm

GX-use standard cam. 13001- H2300
Working angle [duration] 256
Inlet opens 20 BTDC Inlet closes 56 ABDC
Exhaust opens 58 BBDC Exhaust closes 18 ATDC
Overlap would then be 38 degrees.
Valve lift 8.4mm

As can be seen, the GX cam is hardly a fireball grind & would in all probability work just fine in a stock 1200 single carb engine.

For the record, the A10 engine used an even milder cam.
Duration 240 degrees
Intake 12- 48 degrees.
Exhaust 50- 10 degrees
Overlap 22 degrees
Valve lift is not shown.

Even a stock 1200 cam would put a little pep in the step of an A10 as the step up in specs from A10 to 1200 is about the same as in the 1200 to GX

I think it is a typo, made way back when.




The 2006 catalog repeats the exact same thing.

Here is the full page should you care to peruse it.

Prima Facie, it would seem that the stock cam [H1000] was used from start to finish of 1200 production. It is listed only as 'camshaft' indicating a single part. The book shows the tapered plug at the back as being included but the dowel for the sprocket at the front as separate.

The H7000 part is described a being an 'assy- camshaft' which would indicate something made up of several parts assembled together. [possibly with the dowel]
Introduced in July 1972, it supercedes the H2300 assy- camshaft [the GX cam] which is not listed in your parts list at all & it should be since the new one is not interchangeable with it either backwards or forwards, yet supercedes it.
My book shows the GX cam [H2300] as being used throughout the 1200 GX production run, unchanged.

Unless something more comes to light, I will agree that it's probably an uncorrected error in the US book.

For those not familiar with the parts books,
the heading 'ICA' means 'interchangeable' & the sub headings 'N' & 'F' are 'new' & 'former' with the indicator 'N' obviously meaning 'No'

EDIT
My B120 [Ute] microfiche shows the H1000 cam was replaced in November 1975 with the H5000 cam.

If this is correct it would suggest that the earlier [front distributor] 1200 engine remained in use, in B120's untill October 1975 which might go some way towards explaining why South African 1200s were still using the 1200 engine in 1975 production. [1200GXman]