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Sat 29 Nov 2003 22:47
Fiesta and Ka engines - far0n
Did Ford make many changes to the 1.3 engine before putting it into the Ka ?
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Sat 29 Nov 2003 23:21
Fiesta and Ka engines - Civic8
I thought the engine in KA was overhead cam.similar to escort may be wrong?
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Sat 29 Nov 2003 23:59
Fiesta and Ka engines - king arthur
I thought the engine in KA was overhead cam.similar to escort
may be wrong?


Most certainly not! It's the old pushrod unit, now called the "Endura" I believe. Although, I think they have finally replaced it very recently?
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 00:18
Fiesta and Ka engines - Civic8
Probably I actually don`t know I would have thought the new unit
was powered by a cam belt rather than chain ie is a overhead cam not overhead valve would like to know any better.
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 00:47
Fiesta and Ka engines - Dynamic Dave
The Car By Car Breakdown (menu to the left) will tell you the engine details.

www.honestjohn.co.uk/index.php?url=/carbycar/index...m


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Sun 30 Nov 2003 11:50
Fiesta and Ka engines - mfarrow
Posted in discussion back in march:

www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=11...3
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 13:02
Fiesta and Ka engines - king arthur
Probably I actually don`t know I would have thought the new
unit
was powered by a cam belt rather than chain ie is
a overhead cam not overhead valve would like to know any
better.


OHV engines do not feature a cam belt OR a timing chain!
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 13:22
Fiesta and Ka engines - DL
Ah....yes they do! Think about it!

Tom, 10 minutes in the corner for you ;-)

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Sun 30 Nov 2003 16:46
Fiesta and Ka engines - king arthur
Ah....yes they do! Think about it!
Tom, 10 minutes in the corner for you ;-)
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Well alright then, but only very short ones! The point is, that doesn't determine whether it's a OHV or OHC engine.
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Sun 30 Nov 2003 15:48
Fiesta and Ka engines - mfarrow
OHV engines do not feature a cam belt OR a timing chain!


Ah, i was wondering why someone had left a bicycle chain in my Escort's engine!

No use sitting there redundant, might be reducing performance. If I've got time i'll take it out tonight and post the results :-)
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