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"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock) 03/26/2016 at 05:11 • Filed to: None

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Up until 2003 you could get the Fabia with a 1.4 that was OHV and therefore used pushrods.

jimz > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 03/26/2016 at 05:13

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ok, so what?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:18

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Just a curiosity on a smaller engined modern car. I’m not aware of any other smaller engines using them at the time.

Echo51 > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:18

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Ford used the old “HCS” or whatever they ended up calling it way up near the 2000's aswell. Good ol’ pushrod tapping noises <3

Leon711 > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:19

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Outside the US, pushrods were phased out a long time ago.

jimz > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 03/26/2016 at 05:22

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Oh. I thought you were beating on the old “LOL pushrods archaic” trope even though overhead camshafts pre-date them by several decades.

jimz > Echo51 03/26/2016 at 05:23

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pushrods don’t cause “tapping” noises unless they have non-hydraulic lifters and nobody’s checked the valve lash in a while.

jimz > Leon711 03/26/2016 at 05:24

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well, when you live in a region where 1.6 liters is considered a “large” engine, I can see why.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:25

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Na I know they have their uses (the LS is super compact because it stuck with OHV for example) it’s just not something you often see on a little 4 cylinder.

Echo51 > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:27

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Well then you’ve never heard the Kent/HCS/Endura-E. If they don’t tap it’s cause they’re dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kent…

Used in the Ka untill 2002 even, silly Ford...

Leon711 > jimz 03/26/2016 at 05:28

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Do you have any idea?

MultiplaOrgasms > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 03/26/2016 at 05:34

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For all you americans out there, let me explain:

European car makers have quickly realized that the advantages of an OHV valvetrain are very much negligible on engines of average european size and therefore have mostly abandoned that technology by the early 1990s. The last european cars to use OHV engines were usually cheap and shitty base model compacts, BRITISH, or a Ford.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MultiplaOrgasms 03/26/2016 at 05:40

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The Americans realised this too some time ago, as far as I know there are only v8s using OHV over there for the space saving advantages. The smaller engines all seem to be OHC.

Funktheduck > Echo51 03/26/2016 at 07:45

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Thanks. Now I'm stuck reading Wikipedia for the next few hours.

Echo51 > Funktheduck 03/26/2016 at 07:50

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Best/worst app to accidentally enter pre-bedtime.

. . > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 03/26/2016 at 08:25

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That engine was pretty damn horrible and if I recall correctly its history could be traced back to the 60's. Timing chains on those things were a joke and would often start rattling horribly after 30k km.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > . . 03/26/2016 at 09:01

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I think they go back to the late 50s yeah. My uncle has one, perfectly maintained at 60k miles, chain rattles. So slow it makes my Twingo seems like a hot hatch by comparison. 0-60 whenever it feels like it.