What is CA18DE?

The CA18DE is a late 1980's motor released by Nissan and fitted to the Nissan Exa's, 180SX and Silvia, as well as the SSS Bluebird. It is a fuel injected, Double Overhead Cam set-up. It came out in two versions N/A and Turbo. It is one of the hardiest motors to be released by Nissan, due to the similar design principles that had been used to create the RB series motors.