10V.... Interference engine?

[Bill Phelps]

I'm running a 2.2 4KQ stock JT bottom end and an MC head (and turbo). Would
that make mine an interference situation?

Just wondering....

Bill


Message: 1
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:02:24 +0100
To: MXHOWES at aol.com, quattro at audifans.com
From: Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
Subject: Re: 10v.... interference engine?

I think the 10v NA engines are non-interference, while the 10vt engines are
interference... IIRC..

HTH,

Mihnea

At 17:52 19/02/2003 -0500, MXHOWES at aol.com wrote:
>In going back thru the archives I was convinced that my 10v ('85 4kq &
>'88
>80q) were non interference engines ... ie. you break the timing belt and
>nothing else is broken.  The 20 valve is a different ($) story.
>Now I see in the  Marketplace some guy is selling his '90 200tq 10v with a
>broken top end because of a timing belt slip. Either:
>                            a. He has a 20v and doesn't know it.
>                                                              b. Something
>else caused the damage
>                                                              c. He doesn't
>know what he is talking about or
>                                                              d.  I don't
know
>what I am talking about
>
>Which is it?
>
>Jim


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