I was talking with a friend of mine today in the phone and he told me that last weekend went for a drive in Alentejo(south of Portugal). He told me that went to a scrapyard looking for datsuns and parts and found a 1200 2 door sedan with a peugeot engine. The guy told him that he only made some engine mounts and an adaptor plate for the gearbox.
The engine itself is from a Peugeot 405. He also told me that the car is fast as hell, almost like an A14. I think is a very curious mod.
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Here`s the video of the engine running:

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Now that's what i call a butchery

The 2ltr Renault Fuego or peugeot 505 motor, all the french makes used a 2 and 2.2 liter Douvrin all alloy 4 cylinder fits without issues as its so compact.
Its as light as a a15 but crossflow hemi style head with 2000 or 22000cc the only issue
is the gearbox uses a torque shaft instead of normal tailshaft.

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Since when is a A14 fast as hell?

you didn't notice the 56 series in pic 3?

are u right in the head datsun is a datsun u dont put pufta motors in them if it was a ca18et i would give u the thumps up .................

he didnt put the 'pufta' motor in tufdat, he found the car in this state.perhaps read the first post.
at the very least its doing something different yeah?

my mate had a renault fuego, and it used to hammer. not a bad donk imo.

That is just so wrong. Keep it real. Keep it all Nissan.

This is just to prove that anything is possible and there are a lot of temptations and not always is the best option. I make Ddonzal words my own. Keep it real( and simple) keep it Nissan.

Well on the surface an all alloy cross flow engine makes sense but errrrrrr a pug......................while now we know how all those Porsche & Jag die hards feel when the see a Chevy V8 in there beloved cars!!

Tom