The

Nissan , trade name, trading as Nissan Motor Corporation and often shortened to Nissan, is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The company sells ...

C-series was an

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engine produced in the 1950s and into the 1960s. It displaced 1.0 L (988 cc) and produced 37 hp (27.6 kW) and 47.7 to 49 lb·ft (64.7 to 66.4 Nm). It was a

pushrod engine An overhead valve (OHV) engine, sometimes called a ''pushrod engine'', is a piston engine whose valves are located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with earlier flathead engines, where the valves were located bel ...

and used single or dual-26 mm

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s. The C engine was derived from the 1.5 L Nissan 1H (1489 cc) engine, itself a licence built version of the 1.5 BMC B-Series engine that featured a 73 mm bore x 89 mm stroke. To create the C engine, Nissan under the advice of American engineer Donald Stone (formerly of Willys-Overland) followed his suggestion of de-stroking the 1.5 engine from 89 mm to 59 mm, with the resulting C1 engine being called the "Stone engine" in his honor. When it was later increased to 1.2 L via an increased stroke from 59 mm to 71mm, it was called the

Nissan E engine The Nissan E series name was used on two types of automobile engines. The first was an OHV line used in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The second was an OHC version ranging from and was produced from 1981 till 1988. It was replaced by ...

. The Nissan C engine would go on to be directly replaced by the

Nissan A engine The Nissan A series of internal combustion gasoline engines have been used in Datsun, Nissan and Premier brand vehicles. Displacements of this four-stroke engine family ranged from 1.0-liter to 1.5-liter and have been produced from 1967 till 20 ...

in the 1967 Nissan Sunny B10, whose 1-litre A10 unit shared virtually the same displacement and same 73mm bore x 59mm stroke as the C engine. Applications: * 1957-1959 Datsun 210/211 * 1957-1960 Datsun 220/221/222 Truck * 1959-1960 Datsun S211 * 1959.08-1963 Datsun Bluebird 310 * 1963.09-1964.09 Datsun Bluebird 410

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