{"id":32,"date":"2017-04-11T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/about\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:21:37","slug":"the-datsun-a12-screamer-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/the-datsun-a12-screamer-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Datsun A12 &#8216;screamer&#8217; engines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Datsun A-series engines are probably one of the most under rated engines in the small car world. &nbsp;They were designed back in the early <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">1960&#8217;s<\/g> and were a derivative of the E engine which still made use of a cast iron cylinder head and which in turn also integrated the design improvements to the BMC A-Series engine. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>In the right hands, these A12 engines are&nbsp;able to produce as much as 170&nbsp;&#8211; 180&nbsp;horsepower from a normally aspirated push rod engine. &nbsp;Below is a modified&nbsp;A12 engine and able to rev to 9000RPM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"A12 Engine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9bMrhyOi_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile back in <g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">Japan<\/g> they are able to take it to a whole&nbsp;different level of modification. &nbsp;TOMEI have played a huge role in their development and have been involved in Datsun racing since 1968. &nbsp;During this time many&nbsp;specials parts which are able to withstand the extreme stresses endured under race conditions have been designed and improved upon. Today TOMEI is still involved with the now famous Hirota Datsun Sunny and which still competes in the JCCA&nbsp;racing series in&nbsp;Japan. &nbsp;Here is a video of the very car being dyno tested in Japan. It is cable of reaching 10 000RPM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Hirota TOMEI Sunny\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4U4unxzm_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A full race prepared and built TOMEI A12 engine would cost approximately \u00a51 600 000. &nbsp;In ZAR currency you would be looking at R228571.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Banner-JCCA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Banner-JCCA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Banner-JCCA-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Datsun A-series engines are probably one of the most under rated engines in the small car world. &nbsp;They were designed back in the early 1960&#8217;s and were a derivative of the E engine which still made use of a cast iron cylinder head and which in turn also integrated the design improvements to the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/the-datsun-a12-screamer-engines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Datsun A12 &#8216;screamer&#8217; engines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardsbrothersracing.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}