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The 1.8L N13, was more of a joint venture. Featuring Holden's locally built "Camtech" engine, and possibly a GM transaxle. Nissan kept using the engine, even after the JV came to an end
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I still see original 1.8L variants on the road, not blowing smoke, original engines, still just ticking along nicely. From 18 y.o P platers to one owner grandma cars. They are certainly one of the most over engineered cars ever made in my opinion. Nissan totally lost money on these, as they never broke down. Yes the had a few niggles, such as the ecu memcal being dickie, easy fix tho. The one we had in 1992 ws a Pulsar Q in white with 89,000kays on it. The only problem it had was on cold starts, sometimes it would run on 3 pots for a bit, then come good on all four. As it was under factory warr an tee, nissan had it for a week trying to replicate the problem, and eventually tracked it down to an injector that was leaking ow and then, cause it to run rich on cylinder 3 for a bit until it cleared it self. The other thing it did was when coming off freeway type driving, the ECM light would blink logging a code. That code was the o2 sensor fault. Wasn't a bad sensor, just a niggle. Apart from those two things, and the aircon struggling on super hot days, I cannot fault them. They handle, go well stock, comfy to cruise in, good on juice, reliable as the sun, easy to work on and actually look like a nice neat car that suits all ages. The next car Nissan lost money on BIG TIME was the 1994 - 1997 A32 / A33 Nissan Maxima. VG 30 Engine won the best engine of the year for 7 years in a row if I remember rightly, that being for reliability, maintenance costs etc. Anyway I'll save that story for another time.. Yawn... One Man
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Holden & Nissan were ahead of the game back in those days. Most of the opposition were still carburettored. Dr Terry |
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