See we have a family take-away that my bro runs. I work in town. I used to drive the van then i bought the golf. My bro has a 124 series merc and at the moment the van parks at home, hardly ever used. He uses the merc to the shop and back.

So since the van is hardly used anymore we wana change the motor and use the van for the shop and park the merc of. Thats y it has to be a daily runner.

Plans to mod the golf is on the way. At the moment i have an 8v cross flow head. Saving up for a set of ITBs and need to convert to FI. Saving up and doing everything at once on the Golf. I should make about 145kw ATW when its complete.

Why don;t you mod the golf?
It will be less effort and less expensive.
Make then the Bakkie your daily driver.

If not then:

You must get hold of the Toyota cressida gearbox. Then buy a adapter bellhousing to make it fit the motor. I think you will have to remove the nissan tunnel gearbox mountings and make a custom gearbox x-member to bolt it through the floor.
There is pictures on this site on how to do this professionally.
The cressida gearbox is nice and strong.
Also I do not know about the clutch assembly on what you will need to do there and if the clutch will work together because you will now use a different gearbox that the engine did not come with.
You must then also be careful with your brakes. The 1400 bakkie brakes will not perform very well with high speed braking.
It will start to brake fade after a short while.

Talk to the local drag racers. Most of them will have done this mod to their 1400's and will be able to assist you. Theirs will however have BIG turbos on and yours will be N/A.
It will definately rock for a N/A bakkie.
N/A, that is what I like.

20v with Independant Throtle Bodies Now that will rock. What RWD gearbox can i use on it tho?

Go the 20v i reckon, theres been a fair few people modded the 1200 ute with the 4AGE 16v, gettin kinda boring

Sounds the goods but remember to do something different!

Cheers
Dave

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Me leave the family.... never

Been hectic guys, started a new job so still getting used to that.

Yeah there are a good few UTEs with 4AGE motors here in RSA aswell. Havn't seen one upclose thow :(

The thing that got me and my bro thinking is what gearbox to use

leave the family again and we'll kneecap ya

Hey Widget good to see you back,

The really good thing for you is that your car is new so the all the suspension, brakes, steering etc is in very good condition so that doesnt need any work to start with so your not starting behind the 8 ball.

The 16v is not an overly big engine or anything so I dont think you will have any really trouble.

I think there are some photos of 1200's with Toyota 16V in them so that might help.

Good luck with the transplant.

Hi all, I used to post on this forum before but havn't in a long time reason being i bought a VW Citi Golf (MK1) BUT... I still have my Nissan 1400 Bakkie

So its been like 5 months since i bought my car and decided its time to mod the bakkie. My bro and I are goin to do the project but it still has to be a daily runner.

This is what he was thinking, Toyota twincam 16V or the 20v. No work is going to be done on the motor cos we wana leave it standard.

What are your thoughts in doing an engine transplant in a bakkie? Not gnna use a turbo or supercharger, has to N/A. What motors, gear boxes, diffs should we use to get a good daily runner that can still scare some of the "faster" cars.

Thanks to all in advance.