LUKBENPHI
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QUOTE="Nodge68, post: 3692682, member: 79035"]Powerful and economical with reliability that wasn't any worse than the Vauxhall engines of the time. At least the K series didn't suffer the timing belt issues that the Vauxhall engine did. I'm a great fan of the K series.[/QUOTE]
Very true, vauxhall isn't that economical either i only managed 28mpg in my astra I had, ford 1800 zetec was very reliable if you use the correct oil to stop the sticky vale syndrome and on a par with the K 16 for economy only hampered by the larger mondeo's body weight, far better in the focus but it was a boring engine unless you dropped the 2.0 cams in it to wake it up( there semi-fast road as standard) , K series far more fun from the off, sounds great with a cheap cone filter too
Very true, vauxhall isn't that economical either i only managed 28mpg in my astra I had, ford 1800 zetec was very reliable if you use the correct oil to stop the sticky vale syndrome and on a par with the K 16 for economy only hampered by the larger mondeo's body weight, far better in the focus but it was a boring engine unless you dropped the 2.0 cams in it to wake it up( there semi-fast road as standard) , K series far more fun from the off, sounds great with a cheap cone filter too