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"hang on the 234 is b230 with a 16 valve head....so how come its so much worse than the b230???"
I did not build the thing I just have to service them and pick up the pieces when they scatter. You may want to believe that the head is the only difference but you are woefully mistaken. Let me ask you this, when was the last time the bolt for your oil pump pulley sheared off and scattered your B230 motor?
"ok it IS an interferance engine but then again so are most IC engines made...change the belts and its not an issue (or shouldnt be....) come to that a decked b230 with componants a little on the edges of the spec is also interference...and FYI the 850 with basically the same engine as a 960 is 80k change on the belts"
Let me see, you just spent in the area of $1500.00 changing out all of the tensioners, engine seals, and resealing the cam carrier on your oil leaking pig of an engine. You even did it right on time and that pesky little oil pump bolt sheared or the balance shaft idler bearing came apart and now the engine is scattered. Not just a what if, I've seen it more than once. The 850 may have a similar engine, but the belt change on MOST of them is 70k, not 80k. We are talking about stock motors here not something some ricky racer has modified beyond spec.
"the b230ft is a god awfull beast really..its thursty, fragile, unless you get the post 94 one prone to piston melting - the turbo pipework is extortionatly expensive, the turbo goes 80-150k and cost BIG money, it eats oil...then again it also gets bloody awfull gas milage and eats tyres...technalogically its back in the ark and produces seriously woefull power for a 2.3 turbo...come on a 2.3 turbo SHOULD put out 300-400bhp if it wasnt held back by those 8 valves and dodgy engineering tolarances..."
Providing you service the engine and maintain it properly there is no reason it will not do 300K with all of the original equipment. Again, not some internet myth, I've seen it time and time again and have numerous examples on the road of vehicles that I have personally serviced from the day they rolled off of the truck. I am not sure what you are basing your experience on but I base mine on just that, real world experience.
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