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| When Prince wanted to go racing with the Skyline someone
had the bright idea of taking out the 4cyl. engine and replacing it with
the 6cyl. from the S40 Gloria. At first a small number were built to homologate
the cars for racing, when these proved so popular they decided to put the
GT into full production. There was no way the 6cyl. engine would fit in
the S50, so what they did was they cut the car in front of the fire wall
and inserted an extra 8 inches of panel work into the nose of the car to
give the extra room needed. When you look inside the engine bay this modification
is clearly visible. This gave the car a very dramatic appearence with it's
long bonnet and short boot. It was available in two versions, the "B" model
had the 1988cc 6cyl. 127hp OHC G7 engine. It had triple 40DCOE-18 Weber
carbs, 5 speed close ratio gearbox, 99 litre fuel tank, full instrumentation,
limited slip diff, power brake booster and a higher compression engine.
The "A" model had a 106hp single carb version of the G7 with a lower compression
ratio. Both models had disc front brakes with twin piston calipers and
alloy finned drums at the rear. Later models had flow through ventilation
with small eye ball vents added to the dashboard. Later cars were sold
as either a Prince A200GT or Nissan A200GT. |
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