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Originally Posted by LWJ
Slightly off topic. I had a 65 MGB years ago. I used to root around junk yards to grab NLA parts and other treasures. A guy at a British wrecking yard told me that the head from a Fairlady would bolt right on to an MG and vice-versa. Meaning, Nissan reverse engineered the engine from an MG.
I haven't confirmed this but it seems plausible.
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That may be true for a Fairlady 1600, which is OHV like an MGB, but the 2000 is an OHC enginem so no go there. However, I had one of these in high school, and underneath it one day, I saw a British Leyland parts tag on a front bumper bracket, so I assume that there was some reverse engineering going on.