A company over here was selling these new cylinder heads for Minis that bolt
straight onto the original mini block. They were an alloy head twin cam 8 valve
crossflow design with belt drive and a choice of either twin DCOEs of EFI. Cost
was somewhere in the region of A$4000 for the conversion kit. I saw a photo of
someone with a Datsun 320 that had one of these twin cam heads bolted onto the
Datsun E series block, it went on with very little modification.
It was popular over here for MGB owners to use the heads of the 31 series Nissan
Cedric sedans, Cedrics have the H series engine which is a stroker G series
engine. The Cedric heads were a huge improvement on the MG design.
Alan Bent - Flaxton, Queensland, Australia
1966 Fairlady SP311-01060 - * 1965 Silvia CSP311-70231
1966 Fairlady SP311-00925 - * 1964 Fairlady 4-SP310-00134
1964 Fairlady 4-SP310-00134 * 1964 Cedric Wagon 4-WP31-50620
1963 Bluebird P312-3-32984 * 1963 Bluebird P312-3-39741
1963 Cedric G31-3-07024 * 1964 Cedric Wagon 4-WP31-51579
1969 Super Six G130-005415 *
Early Datsun Homepage http://www.geocities.com/olddat
Nissan Silvia Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/ns/silvia
Planet Cedric http://nav.to/planetcedric
Victor Laury wrote:
> I've read quite a bit on the subject and to our Marque's credit, Datsun
> parts are prized by the Brit crowd.
>
> The heads from the "E" and "J" Motors are gifts from the gods to sprites and
> Minis. You'll find more than a few Austin sedans and others with "R" motors.
> But, The BEST! The thing that will really make you smile, is the Laments
> from the TR-6/GT-6 crowd that they can't fit the Z's L-24/26/28 motors under
> their bonnets to replace their Leland boat anchors! Poor folks! After being
> denied championship glory, again and again by SRL Roadsters. Can we all give
> them a collective sympathetic "AWWW" ? :-)
>
> Victor
> 70 SRL 31113136
> Los Angeles
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=123073
> SoCalROC http://www.ameri-eagle.com/datsun/
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