I was lucky enough this week to pick up an "80's Pulsar" Motor for the cost of a little labour and I'm trying to figure out what it is. There's a bar code with 1.8 E written above it, to the transmission end of the motor, single overhead cam, multi-point fuel injection and has GM stamped all over it. I reckon from what I've read this makes it the 1.8 litre from the Holden Astra and Nissan Pulsar from around 87-90. Apparently Nissan designed, would it based on the E15/16 motor or the CA18?

I'm trying to figure out what might be of use to me, I'd like to stick with the A15 in my coupe for now since that's what it's registered with. I thought maybe I could make up a manifold to go between the intake and the A15 head, port sizes are about 33mm diameter, for an easy mpi conversion.

I was hoping to use the distributor but it is quite different to the A15 distributor in pieces on my bench.

Any thoughts?

By the way it came with an automatic transmission if anyone is interested, the fluid was all clean as it leaked all over me. Torque converter looks to have been replaced and is clean as. The rest I plan to keep until I can figure out what is useful.

The engine is the same 1.8 that was available in the Holden Camira. The gayest car on the planet.

can u post a pic? worst case scenario is its a 1.8 camira engine, because if it was E series from 80's pulsar the dizzy would be right to use not totally different as u said.

Hahaha Snap!

if u cant take a pic, the camira engine has a narrow tappet cover with the dizzy sticking sideways out the end of it.

thats the engine known as the family 2, theyre very torquey, all in by 3200rpm and good power for a 4 banger. The camira had the worst build quality of probably any holden (although not much lower than their usual standard), but the multipoint injection camira engine is actually very good. These same engines are used all over europe where they are known as the c20ne. They came in many guises but the 8v is a good engine, regardless of what other people say

my mother and an ex owned camiras bec they were so cheap. the 1.8E is very economical, I do remember the earlier JD? model could do 120kmh flat out but the 1.8 E could sit on that speed,

its american design, so american quality, The "J car" was meant to be the platform for pontiac and other cars all over the world and in aust was the camira, hence models JD etc. The same engine went in the little daewoos years later.

Enough information in the picture? Sounds like it's the camira engine from what you guys are saying. The torque converter has Pulsar written on it so I guess the next question is does it have the same bolt pattern on the transmission side as the E15? Just curious.

I was kinda interested in the posts I read about fitting an E series head to an A series engine and interchanging other internals but if it's all different then it's probably of little use to me besides the sensors and the induction side of things.

Looking at the bores they aren't scuffed but they are pretty shiney so I would punt that it was burning oil.

Thanks for the help!

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Family II engine was designed by GM Opel.

Yes, the J-cars were not very exciting cars.

Just some extra info, the Family 2 blocks in the pulsars had a different bell housing pattern to match with the Nissan gearbox in the car. A friend was going to drop a 2litre Camira engine into his N13 Pulsar, but ran into this problem. He could have swapped the 2 litre crank & rods in, but didn't want to go to that much trouble. Crow Cams also had some grinds to suit the engine with some valve springs at one stage. This engine was revised & a twin cam 16 valve head created by Cosworth Engineering for Vauxhall, & was used in the 2 litre Cavalier race cars, & turbo charged in the Calibra. Would it be possible to get the 1.8 Pulsar block with the 2 litre crank & the DOHC cam head & drop it into a 1200. Easier to just fit an SR20DE.