Rover K-Series Engine Part Two

Part two of the programme from the early Nineties looks at how Rover developed the long bolt design for its award winning K-Series engine.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Rover 200
• 400
• 25
• 45 MG ZR
• MG ZS

[djmoner]

nice :)) keep going :) i'm waiting part 3 ;)

[rovamota]

That's all there is, I'm afraid.

[rovamota]

There was only two parts.

[jsj24uk]

You can always trust a man with a beard and a woman with a posh English accent.

[L1CKMYBA11Z]

50k miles, headgasket time!

[Liamautomechanic]

@Aussiemarco they were a good car to drive, plenty of power for a 1.6 engine.apart from the originally dodgy gaskit.

[Liamautomechanic]

@gunnit1001 The first rover gaskit i fitted was on the rover 400 k series cleaned r well down. skimmed the head tightened r well down. never looked back. the new tin gaskit is a good job. grand wee motor.nice to drive.

[gunnit1001]

@Liamautomechanic I'm not saying they are bad cars by any means and yes the gasket fix does seem to work, there's no denying it. It's just a shame they never came out of the factory with a decent gasket. Interestingly MG are using what is essentially a 1.8 turbo k series,  and the 6 drives alot like a ZT. Re-engineered technology perhaps

[Liamautomechanic]

@gunnit1001 they were a great car to drive.

[Liamautomechanic]

i fitted a fair few of the modified tin gaskit. seems to have cured the problem. none have blown since.grand wee car to drive. good video by the way.

[gunnit1001]

I sighed at 1:50 and yet it was pot luck, anything as low as 30k or even 120k before first head gasket failure. But you would have thought by the late nineties they would have realised there was a problem and used a proper gasket? After BMW ownership the pheonix four should have focused on replacement cars for their range instead of sports cars (MG SV), although the MG Z's are under-rated in my view as long as you opt for diesel, v6 (ish) or v8, 10 years too late to save them though

[PUREAAMERICAN]

What a concept, a company on the verge of collapse that decides to implement unproven technology to cut quality and costs. It was like they learned NOTHING from Honda.

[mushroomscouser]

Unless that man with a beard designs engines. Shit engine. He was wrong.

[chrisrkelly61]

i had a k series in a rover 216...head gasket death at 55,000...what a shit car!!!

[hamster639]

@engineroomapocalypse My teacher is an ex rover engineer and worked on the K-series project and he says it's not the gasket design, he said it's when BMW bought Rover and they had to make the engines bigger to a 1.6/1.8 by changing to damp liners, the original k-series used in the wedge cars had wet liners and were very reliable, ARG had Maestros and Montegos going around for testing and not one had head gasket failure or any other type of failure, the problems started 1996.