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Nissan FD engine

motor vehicle engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ11509797 ↗
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The Nissan FD engine is used primarily for Nissan Truck and Bus commercial vehicles. It is of an inline-four layout. The FD is a direct injection development of the earlier, swirl chamber ED engine with which it shares engine dimensions.

ED engine

The ED engine first appeared in the early 1970s in 3.0-litre, ED30 form. This swirl chamber diesel formed the basis for the later, direct injection FD engines. A 3.3-litre ED33 and 3.5-litre ED35 variant were also developed, both of which received FD family counterparts unlike the smaller version.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nissan FD engine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.