They are very reliable, tough and long lasting engines. They are prone to oil leaks through the head gasket but as far as real "head gasket failures" are concerned they are very few and far between.

 

Cheers for that mate, i was starting to worry a bit!

 

You might find you have an oil leak from the gearbox end of the engine, at the front. Thats what they mean by 'Head gasket failure' on a T series. Its usually fairly minor and not worth replacing the head gasket for. Actual head gasket failures resulting in oil/water mixing or bubbles in the expansion tank are quite rare on the T. Its one of Rovers best engines. It often gets tarred with the same brush as the K series, which doesnt really deserve its reputation for head gasket failure.

 

Who have you been talking to, most people have no idea what the T series engine is? They probably assume that any Rover engine is the K series engine.

The T series is a reliable engine, its the gearboxes that are the weak link. T series tend to fail when in turbo form and people bump up the boost. They also like to leak a little bit of oil now and again.

Headgaskets are a K series problem also not a T series. The T series has been around for many years and will quite happily run up many miles.

 

I'll take a T series over a 1.8 K anyday. 136bhp (180/200 with turbo) and LOADS of bottom end torque, even on the NASP models.

 

Dont listen to them, they're talking out their jacksies (AGAIN!!!)

Its the K series that have a reputation for HGF, the T series is bullet proof.

The K isnt that bad either if looked after and respected. Honest John last week, there was a guy whos Rover 414 had done over 200,000 miles on its original HG and he was putting it into a rally.

 

Who have you been talking to, most people have no idea what the T series engine is? They probably assume that any Rover engine is the K series engine.

I know soneone with a 2.0 coupe who thought it was a K series, and didnt believe me that they never made a 2.0 K series engine.

 

they did make a 2.0ltr k series engine but there VERY rare and were fitted to the 400 iirc???

 

2litre K was a racing only unit used last year in the BTCC

 

they did make a 2.0ltr k series engine but there VERY rare and were fitted to the 400 iirc???

It was never fitted to the 400 (that used a T), was fitted to a few ZRs and most notably the BTCC ZS

 

The 2 litre production K was a V6 anyway, so you couldnt really mistake it for a T series.

 

But they made a 2 litre 4 pot k for the touring car didnt they???

The V6 was too 'lazy'.

 

2.0 k 4-pot was used in the last season of touring cars. prevous to that they used a kv6 2.0 but due to rev limits imposed they could never get the power the should have done. the 4-pot 2.0 was also used in a couple of zr's in some endurance races... it performed very very well and was very reliable. I had heard that caterham had some of the engines and had them running 300bhp still nasp.

the 400 used the T series 2.0 and the 45 ran a limited number of 2.0V6's before the ZS was introduced with the 2.5KV6.

 

the 45 ran a limited number of 2.0V6's

that'll be what i was thinking of :shh:

 

Are the rumours that the new K+(?) engine developed by PowerTrain to answer EU emissions regs were to include a 4-pot 2.0litre engine?

 

Cheers for that lads, put my mind to rest and now i can shut my mates up!

 

I love my T series engined Rover 220, unfortunatley mine DID suffer from a HGF and had been fixed badly, the guy who did it properly for me (ex-rover) said that he was very surprised that I had a HGF on a T series and I was very unlucky, he said that they are usually bullet proof...esp. the bottom end of the engine.

I love driving mine, very nice torquey engine... spot on, hopefully my new HGF repair will send me onto many many more happy miles

I'd defo buy another one, maybe in the turbo guise next :bgirin2:

 

I'll take a T series over a 1.8 K anyday. 136bhp (180/200 with turbo) and LOADS of bottom end torque, even on the NASP models.

I had a quick blast with my dad in his 820 a while back. Even though my car is a lot lighter than the 820, and they both have similar 0-60 times, he still whipped me left, right and centre

I was laughing so much as he pulled away and my foot was stuck to the floor.

As for the reliability of the T series, my dads car has clocked up 260,000 miles