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Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
in a radically different way?
Some examples:
Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
alternator, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Jason

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Jason wrote:
> Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> in a radically different way?
> Some examples:
> Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> alternator, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason
>

non self-tightening pulley bolt? [before anyone gets upset, THAT'S A JOKE]

Jason wrote:
> Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> in a radically different way?
> Some examples:
> Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> alternator, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason
>


Are you talking about the Rover K series engine?

In article <Nd2if.4109$uR.625@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>, Bozo
<spam@spamme.com> wrote:

> Jason wrote:
> > Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> > the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> > primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> > in a radically different way?
> > Some examples:
> > Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> > alternator, etc.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jason
> >
>
>
> Are you talking about the Rover K series engine?

I was referring to the K series engines in the 2006 4 cyld. Honda Accords.
I looked at one of those engines and was amazed at how different it was
from the engine in my 1999 4 cyld. Accord. It appears that everything that
is on the right side the K series engine system is on the left side of the
engine system in my Accord. Visit a Honda dealership and take a look at
it.
Jason

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"Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> in a radically different way?
> Some examples:
> Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> alternator, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jason
>
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The new I4s have a chain cam drive. Perhaps the design has something to do
with that.

I read on a publicaion from Honda. The main reason was to get the exhaust
manifold closer to the catalytic converter without mounting a converter
under the hood for emission reasons. Scott

In article <Ez7if.28072$4l5.11610@dukeread05>, "TWW" <twaugh5@cox.net> wrote:

> "Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:jason-2611050812270001@pm4-broad-46.snlo.dialup.fix.net...
> > Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> > the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> > primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> > in a radically different way?
> > Some examples:
> > Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> > alternator, etc.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jason
> >
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> The new I4s have a chain cam drive. Perhaps the design has something to do
> with that.

You may be right. There must have been a reason since Honda has probably
spent over a million dollars developing and improving the engine system
that is now in almost every 4 cylinder Honda car that has been built over
the last 30 years.
They now have an engine system that is radically different. There had to
be a reason. I down loaded an article about the engine from the Honda
Tuning website. hondatuningmagazine.com
In the search engine at the website, type these words in their search engine:
K series
look for an article on the list entitled,
"All In The Family" by Keith Buglewicz and Henry Dekuyper
click on the picture of engine that is on the floor and
the picture gets really large. I downloaded the picture
and the article.
Jason

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In article
<9cad4291845334c92286209ed62d3510@localhost.talkab outautos.com>, "zonie"
<sjemoomaw@nospam> wrote:

> I read on a publicaion from Honda. The main reason was to get the exhaust
> manifold closer to the catalytic converter without mounting a converter
> under the hood for emission reasons. Scott

zonie
thanks
Jason

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Jason wrote:

> Honda has been mounting the 4 cylinder engines and transmisions in most of
> the vehicles they have made the same way for dozens of years. What are the
> primary reasons Honda engineers mounted the K-series engines in vehicles
> in a radically different way?
> Some examples:
> Placement of air filter housing; anti-lock brake system unit; fuse boxes;
> alternator, etc.

All part of Honda's "Special K" program to get America to eat healthy.