Yup. I bought an exedy replacement clutch for my A12 when i converted it to manual and am currently using the same clutch on the A15 engine.

My racecar uses a Toyota clutch (200mm)
Worked a treat
20 thou step on flywheel for extra free clamp

It's not an exact match to the p/plate, but it's very close and gives you more surface area.
A work of warning though, the A series compatable driven plate I was sold had a large centre protrusion on the flywheel side. This fouled on the heads of the cap screws which hold my flywheel onto the crank. (Only just on one corner of each one) As a result, my driven plate was prevented from clamping up 100% in the inner half of the linings. So when I was being really mean to it, (doing stand stills in 3rd gear, with people in the back seat) it would slip a bit.

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Arrgh!!! i wish i had known that when i had my flywheel made up!! The guy asked me if i wanted it drilled to 200mm and i said no cause i didnt want to have to use exotic parts.

So there is an off the shelf part that fits the datsun gearbox, and 200mm in diameter!!

Damn it damn it. Ahh well perhaps Ill just try this out and if it cooks, then change the fleywheel then...

Thanks guy's, I have ordered a Exedy heavy duty clutch kit today, and should see it tomorrow.

All pretty and pink.

I would strongly reccomend getting your flywheel redrilled to take the 200mm p/plate. There is an off the shelf driven plate which has the larger dia, and fits the A series spline. I have a 300pound p/plate, and a 200mm driven plate.
The factory ones are just too small for a serious motor. It works out MUCH cheaper to go bigger, than have a heavy p/plate made.

In my racecar i'm using a PBR rpm pressure plate (the yellow ones), which is their heavy duty model or something. When I was running the 60 series I used a standard clutch plate that I prised off a rusty old engine out in the paddock with a screwdriver, it worked a treat and didn't slip in one and a half seasons of supersprints/hillclimbs. Now i'm using an organic sprung center exedy item with the same pressure plate for the toyota gearbox and it's holding up quite well.

nismo i can confirm that it is the same situation with the pressure plates for the excedy mob, i personally rang them up (one of the beautys of working for an auto parts store) and the dude told me that the vannette a15 clutch uses the same clutch as the a12 and also that the a15 pressure plate number cross references back to the a12 number. i went all through this looking for a clutch for my a15 race motor, which turns out, when i pulled the old one out it had an excedy clutch plate and a pbr pressure plate???

Yes, a lot of aftermarket clutch kits for A12 are really the A15 type.

The original Nissan clutch has a super-light action. It's a dream.

Most 1200s i've driven the clutch pedal was much much heavier.

The Micra Turbo clutch is the one they favor in Japan. I understand it is the heaviest duty one Nissan made of that size (fits a 1200).

Originally, the A12/14/15 engines all had a different clutch. They were essentially the same except for clamping force, but in the parts industry there is little sense in keeping three or more different part numbers for three or more clutches that all interchange.

Better to delete the weaker ones & carry one part that services everything, so whenever that is possible, that's the way they usually go.
With only one part, there is no possibility that Mr A15 ends up with an A12 clutch by accident, so no unhappy customers, the retailer needs to cary as little as a single part on his shelf to service everyone & the clutch manufacturer simplifies his product range too.

Clutches for commercial models are often the heaviest duty versions.

Back when I was a young bloke, my girlfriends family had a 1963 Toyota Tiara that they had bought new. The girls in the family had a nasty habbit of riding & slipping the clutch around corners instead of shifting down & it had been replaced twice by 1968.
I came along when the second replacement died, so I fitted a new one for a Toyota Dyna 1900 truck. The clutch pedal felt like a brake pedal & needed a leg like Arnies to hold it in.
It was never slipped again, .... ever.