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On 2010-02-24, Cameo > wrote:
> "jim beam" > wrote in message
> ...
>>> Does Honda make any cars with non-interference engines?
>>
>> why would you want one? they have lower power density.
>>
>> besides, idiots get up here and bleat about "interference engines"
>> here all the time, apparently unable to grasp that fact that any
>> 4-stroke diesel is interference, but diesels are mysteriously missing
>> from their list of engines to complain about.
>
> I wasn't complaining. I was just curious. BTW, what are Toyota engines?
>

They are the part, in Toyota's cars, that make the vroom-vroom sound,
and make the car move when you hit the gas with the car in gear.

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"Cameo" > wrote in -
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> "jim beam" > wrote in message
> ...
>>> Does Honda make any cars with non-interference engines?
>>
>> why would you want one? they have lower power density.
>>
>> besides, idiots get up here and bleat about "interference engines"
>> here all the time, apparently unable to grasp that fact that any
>> 4-stroke diesel is interference, but diesels are mysteriously missing
>> from their list of engines to complain about.
>
> I wasn't complaining. I was just curious. BTW, what are Toyota engines?
>


Toyota is all over the place between interference and non.

Some are even non-interference until a bit of carbon has built up on the
piston tops, after which they become interference.


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"Tegger" > wrote in message
...
> Toyota is all over the place between interference and non.
>
> Some are even non-interference until a bit of carbon has built up on
> the
> piston tops, after which they become interference.

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that the two types could be that
close to each other that some carbon build-up could flip them from one
to the other.

"Cameo" > wrote in -
september.org:

> "Tegger" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Toyota is all over the place between interference and non.
>>
>> Some are even non-interference until a bit of carbon has built up on
>> the
>> piston tops, after which they become interference.
>
> Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that the two types could be that
> close to each other that some carbon build-up could flip them from one
> to the other.
>
>


Nor did I, until I was told by a Toyota MDT (Toyota factory-certified
top-flight technician).


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