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Originally Posted by ThunderZ34
BTW- the valves will hit the pistons if the tbelt breaks- not a pretty sight.
Forgot to mention that the Z32TT also has a factory oil cooler, not sure why they didn't include it in the Z34.
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Originally Posted by Mercennarius
Not true.
And ALL 300ZXs had interference engines, so if the timing belt broke the odds of your valves bending was very high.
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Sorry for misinformation I was sure, so I looked it up and found this at Twinturbo.net :
I was just re-reading a copy of Road & Track's write-up of the 90-96 Z as a used car classic. In it, the author says "The engine is free-wheeling; that is, valves won't collide with pistons should the [timing] belt break."
Can't believe that made it past an editor; you'd think SOMEBODY would've known better!
I knew I was not just shooting from the hip, but wrong is wrong. Sorry again.
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