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Victoria_J_Van wrote:
I recently bought an A14 engine to use in the restoration of an old British van that used, originally, the Austin A-Series (and also the basis for the Nissan variant)
GRRRRRRRRRRR, this piece of misinformation continues to get my goat.
The BMC A series engine has NO CONNECTION whatsoever with the Datsun A series engine.
The BMC 'B' series engine was the basis for the Datsun J series engine & the BMC A series engine was a scaled down version of the B series, .... or vice versa.
It will take only a cursory glance to see the differences with the cam on opposite sides of the block, an external oil pump in the Datsun & an internal one on the British POS
The Brits are the only ones to successfully engineer vapour lock into an inline OHV engine by weaving the ports between the pushrods & placing the exhaust manifold on the camshaft side of the block, deftly engineering it to be right above the fuel pump.
How the nation that designed the Rolls Royce Merlin & the Jet engine could completely screw up a simple car engine design like that defies belief.
The Datsun has the manifolds on the same side as the POS engine but the cam is on the other side of the block, along with the fuel pump, the distributor & oil pump.
Clearly, anybody who makes this statement of connexion between the British A series & the Datsun A series has never actually looked at both engines.
GRRRRRRRRRRR
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