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omega0684 - 28/4/09 at 06:55 PM

was used by Ford in a 1.3 N reg Fiesta?

Miks15 - 28/4/09 at 07:00 PM

kent i believe

owelly - 28/4/09 at 07:06 PM

Not Valencia?

Richard Quinn - 28/4/09 at 07:10 PM

Kent/Endura I think. 1.3 definitely OHV

Miks15 - 28/4/09 at 07:12 PM

according to wiki, if its a Mk3 Fiesta then a kent/HCS if its a mk4 then kent/endura-E

(Mk3 was until 1997 and Mk4 started 1995 according to wiki)

novacaine - 28/4/09 at 08:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by owelly
Not Valencia?


Valencia was the name for the kent engine in fwd layout (different thermostat housing iirc among other little things)

Liam - 28/4/09 at 08:38 PM

Probably an Endura-E like my brother's old 1.3 scort of the same year (what a pile of shite).

It's basically a prehistoric museum-piece kent engine with a 'modern' dizzyless electronic ignition slapped on so that Ford could pretend they developed a new engine for the scrote/festa. Sounded like my late grandad's early vauxhall chevette.

Lord, why did I spend a whole day of my life replacing one for another after the former threw a rod out, and not just let my bro scrap the thing?...

Coose - 28/4/09 at 10:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Liam
Sounded like my late grandad's early vauxhall chevette.


I remember when cars sounded different - what made a Chevette whine? Why did a Talpot Alpine rattle like a half-full tin of ball bearings and still keep going? Bahhhh, them were the days.....

[Edited on 28/4/09 by Heineken]

[Edited on 28/4/09 by Coose]

MikeRJ - 28/4/09 at 11:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by novacaine
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
Not Valencia?


Valencia was the name for the kent engine in fwd layout (different thermostat housing iirc among other little things)


The Valencia/HCS/Endura-E look a bit like an original Kent engine from the outside but hardly anything is interchangeable.

They do have one thing in common however, a tumble drier full of pebbles would sound positively musical next to any of them

The Mk1 Fiesta had a proper FWD Kent engine, the block and crank were a little shorter than the RWD engine but pretty much everything else was interchangeable.

[Edited on 28/4/09 by MikeRJ]