From the interior shots it would seem that this was never intended to be a street driven showpiece. In fact, it looks more like a race car project to me.

Many racers do not have any particular brand loyalty, they just need a light, strong, inexpensive & readily available bodyshell, & an available engine that they think that will make the aforementioned bodyshell go fast.

If the builder of this car followed these guidelines then, remembering that this car is not in Australia or the USA, I can see the logic in it.

Mazda engines, both rotomotor & recip types are used in 1200's in various parts of the world with great sucess so a precedent has been set with 'foreign' engines. As for a Pug engine? Well, not my first choice, but hey, what do I know about Euro stuff. [Nothing]

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

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.

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

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.

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 .................

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

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Since when is a A14 fast as hell?

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.

Now that's what i call a butchery