do 12st's (carbed) go bang if the cambelt goes?

[Asa-James]

as above, dont want to spend money on an engine i'm removing in a coupla weeks, but i think it'll be at PVS with the 1200 in, and its a long drive for me...


if they dont go bang, i might get a belt and take it with me just in case :D

if they do, i'd best pull my finger out and get the 1300 built

[BIGS]

the 1.2 carbs are cam safe :thumb:

[Asa-James]

coolies

[AlexW]

They are, and i know of one that went pop, no problem apart from it was on a motor way loll

[Sloth]

i wouldnt like to "pop" it at 6k revs tho....

[burgo]

im pretty sure 12st have more breathing room than e16's and my belt fell off my 1600 at about 5500rpm and it was fine :)

[craig green]

I thought E16s werent valve safe.... 12's are though.feck all lift on the std cam.

[burgo]

I thought E16s werent valve safe.... 12's are though.feck all lift on the std cam.well i was flying off a roundabout when my bottom pulley fell off, which allowed the belt to jump lol it obviously stalled straight away so i dumped it on the side of the road until the next day. went up tools and spare pulley, put the belt back on and fired straight up :D

as far as im aware all the 8v's are although i can imagine the sri's being very close

[Asa-James]

i'm sure i've read somewhere that some of the 1.2's (the spi's iirc) are not valve safe, or very close if they are, but all the rest are nicely valve safe

[Sloth]

1.2 spis do smack, i've had that happen too.....

[mikey14sr]

12ST should be fine, I flattened 3 fully charged batteries trying to start one many years ago before I noticed the belt had stripped itself, slapped a new belt on and it ran perfectly fine. 6 months later I bought the car just for the engine and abused it quite hard for another 20k, though had to replace the head gasket twice thanks to corroded water-ways.

[Leeboo]

Only takes 20 mins to put a new belt on a 1200 anyway

[shed-on-wheels]

i thought that it was the 1200 and 1600 that are cam safe