Honda powered ZS180????

Dave · 28-06-13, 09:51 PM

I think not!!!

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Cheers
Dave

POMPSKI · 28-06-13, 10:00 PM

Thats an interesting Idle pipe.

petet16 · 28-06-13, 10:08 PM

lol

carmadbaker · 28-06-13, 11:45 PM

I always thought the kv6 was a jap designed engine tbh.... Obv wrong lol

POMPSKI · 29-06-13, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by carmadbaker

I always thought the kv6 was a jap designed engine tbh.... Obv wrong lol

There was a contract with Kia, where Kia made their own version of the KV6 - But it suffered horrifically with Head Gasket failures.

Obviously Korean, but probably where you heard the rumour - The KV6 was as far as I know all rover.

EDIT: Also, no coolant!

Skillen · 29-06-13, 01:08 AM

No 180 front bib also!

Adam 180 V6 · 29-06-13, 06:54 AM

The original kv6 was rover, came in the rover 800 etc, but i believe the kv6 we know today was re designed by bmw due to bad reliability of the engine, headgasket

petet16 · 29-06-13, 07:39 AM

It did first appear in the 800 series, but was a shocker for hgf, so was heavily revised for later models, the only vaguely Honda part is the vis system, the Honda C27 used a similar system.

KevG · 29-06-13, 08:59 PM

The Rover KV6 was ALL Rover as fitted to the 800 series, they also used a Honda V6 also used in the Rover 800 series and it was a 2.6. but the later units fitted to the Z range was a collaboration of Rover and BMW,

welshone · 29-06-13, 09:39 PM

his response to my insistence it was a Rover engine.

"In response to your comment,the K series engine was in the ZS120 and NOT the 180 which i assure you WAS the Honda engined model and therefore did not suffer with the head gasket problem.I hope this clarifies the matter."