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, 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 ...
D-series is an overhead valve series of engines which first appeared in 1964, with the 1.05-liter D engine. Similar to a number of British and other Datsun engines, it may have been derived from an Ohta design which also found its way into some Kurogane vehicles - both of these companies were swallowed up by Nissan in the early 1960s.
D (D10)
The D type engine was introduced for the 1964 update of the Datsun Cablight (A122). This engine displaces and is of an overhead valve design.
Its internal dimensions are unknown, but the displacement is the same as the E-10 engine made by
Tokyu Kogyo Kurogane
, or Kurogane, was one of the first Japanese automakers. It built vehicles from about 1926 until 1962 when a subsidiary of Nissan, called Nissan Machinery (Nissan Koki Co., Ltd. 日産工機), assumed operations as the company had become a membe ...
from 1959 until 1962; this engine was originally developed by
Ohta
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.
The E-10 engine has a bore and stroke of ;
this is the same stroke as in the latter D11 engine. The D engine, unlike other Nissan engines of the period, also has its distributor mounted between the second and third cylinders rather than towards the back of the engine.
Kurogane was taken over by Nissan in 1962 and the Datsun Cablight was a continuation of the Kurogane Mighty, which had already used the E-10 engine in the Mighty NC model.
Applications
* 1964
Datsun Cablight
, or Kurogane, was one of the first Japanese automakers. It built vehicles from about 1926 until 1962 when a subsidiary of Nissan, called Nissan Machinery (Nissan Koki Co., Ltd. 日産工機), assumed operations as the company had become a member ...
A122, A220
D11
The D11 is a
pushrod
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, three
main bearing
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,
inline-four
A straight-four engine (also called an inline-four) is a four-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft.
The vast majority of automotive four-cylinder engines use a straight-four layout (with the e ...
with wedge
combustion chamber
A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the firebox which is used to allow a more complete combustion process.
Interna ...
s, and a bore and stroke of , a compression ratio of 8.0:1, and was rated at at 2800 rpm (D11-PU 41-U model). It weighed . Similar to the E & J series, and Austin A series in layout, it had a gear-driven cam drive similar to the larger SD series diesels; it was used in Datsun FG003 forklifts in the 1960s and then in the NFG101C-103C forklifts in the 1970s. These later industrial applications produce at 2800 rpm.
Applications
* 1964–1968
Datsun Cablight
, or Kurogane, was one of the first Japanese automakers. It built vehicles from about 1926 until 1962 when a subsidiary of Nissan, called Nissan Machinery (Nissan Koki Co., Ltd. 日産工機), assumed operations as the company had become a member ...
A220 & A221
D12
The D12 is a version of Nissan/Datsun's D-series inline-four. Also an
overhead valve
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 be ...
design, it produces at 4800 rpm.
Applications
* 1968–1970
Datsun Cabstar A320
See also
*
List of Nissan engines
This is a list of piston engines developed by Nissan Motors.
Engine naming convention
Nissan uses a straightforward method of naming their automobile engines.
The first few letters identify the engine family. The following digits are the disp ...
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