I was lucky enough this week to pick up an "80's Pulsar" Motor for the cost of a little labour and I'm trying to figure out what it is. There's a bar code with 1.8 E written above it, to the transmission end of the motor, single overhead cam, multi-point fuel injection and has GM stamped all over it. I reckon from what I've read this makes it the 1.8 litre from the Holden Astra and Nissan Pulsar from around 87-90. Apparently Nissan designed, would it based on the E15/16 motor or the CA18?

I'm trying to figure out what might be of use to me, I'd like to stick with the A15 in my coupe for now since that's what it's registered with. I thought maybe I could make up a manifold to go between the intake and the A15 head, port sizes are about 33mm diameter, for an easy mpi conversion.

I was hoping to use the distributor but it is quite different to the A15 distributor in pieces on my bench.

Any thoughts?

By the way it came with an automatic transmission if anyone is interested, the fluid was all clean as it leaked all over me. Torque converter looks to have been replaced and is clean as. The rest I plan to keep until I can figure out what is useful.