as above. The car is a 1991 J reg rover Gti twin cam and I am not sure if it's a honda or rover engine in it. Does anyone here know please?

Thanks in advance
Paul

Honda :)

Its a Honda engine, all the 1.6 Rover 200/400 series had a either a OHC or a DOHC 16v Honda engine.

Nice :);) thanks. It did fly :cool:

Paul :)

So was it only the 1.4 that was a K series? :confused:

Paul

2.0 was a Rover engine too, as was the 1.8. Don't know if the 2.0 was a K-series though.

So where do all the 1.6 litre K-series that Caterham use come from?

:confused: not sure. I am confused now!!! ARRGHHH and its only friday morning :eek:

Paul,

My brother had 1, twin-cam, very nice in black and it was defo a Honda engine in it. I had a 216 GTi single cam 3 door and it was also a Honda motor.

I think people are being confused with the 220 GTi/Coupe/Turbo model which AFAIK is a rover unit.

I thrashed the living daylights out of mine for about 1 1/2 yrs and absolutely nothing went wrong, it loved to sing at 7K :D

Pretty sure it's a Honda unit ..
Doofus.

the 2 litre is not a K series. Either an M series (to about 92/93) then changed to a T series. AFAIK The 1.6 K series are in the later Rovers (Mk3 200 onwards) when Rover's collaboration with Honda ended.

HTH,

Gareth

In the old 200/400 series which was available upto 1995/6 the engines available were:-

1.4 K-series Rover
1.6 OHC Honda
1.6 DOHC Honda
2.0 T16 Rover n/a and turbo
plus diesel engines from PSA n/a and turbo.

After the change to the new Rover 200/25 and the 400/45, the 1.6 Honda engine was replaced with 1.6 K-series.

It will defo be a Honda engine, rover did'nt put there 1.6 egine in untill the mk3 200 or mk 2 400...

This is how it all looks:

K series - 1.4/1.8 VVC rover unit - 214i, si, gsi etc and Lotus elise...

D series - 1.6 honda unit - 216Gti, gsi etc...

L series - 2.0 Deisel non turbo/non-intercoller turbo/intercoler -turbo - as said...

M series (M16) - earley 2.0 - 220,420,620,820 (although at some time the 620 did have a honda 2.0 lump) etc...

T series (T16) - later 2.0 - later 220,420,620,820 etc...

HTH,

John.

Caterhams are all K series Rover engines for the last 2 years or so, now rebadged as MG X-power.

Come in 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.8VVC flavours from Rover and tuned 1.8 VHPD from Minister in the top of the range R500 models.