"Fred Johnson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:03:55 -0000, Toy Ota wrote:

On 12/13/18 3:24 PM, Fred Johnson wrote:
Why do half of cars still use a rubber band for the timing chain?

So their crooked service departments can charge $800+ to change it every
75K miles.

Wow, it's only £380 here in the UK at even the most expensive garage.

Rubber-band timing on an interference engine is a criminal act.

Agreed. In fact why even have interference engines?

Because that gets you a higher performance engine, stupid.

Half of engines are not interference

That's a lie now. And you are free to buy one if you want.

and don't die when a the belt snaps.

And you'd think they shouldn't even have a belt or chain for something
like that? What's wrong with cogs?

Wastes more of the engine power and mechanically
much harder to do with overhead cam engines.