Quote: vl calais. if your mates bent a rod i reckon his pistons were installed back to front as the exhaust valve recess is smaller than the inlet valve recess.if you done this the inlet valve would hit.not the exhaust. i bet he bent the inlet! He didn't bend a rod?? He bent a valve.

oh sorry typo! i meant valve

you wanna see something bend valves. hyundai' go off. they must miss by a bees doodle cos they bend like every valve. we had a mechanic leave the washer that holds the belt back and it jumped a tooth. one valve had broken off and embedded in the piston. couldnt get it out with vise grips. armageddon

Too true, at my uncles workshop he has about 5 pistons on a bench from 5 different Hyundai motors, with big holes from the valves. Those korean cars are dead set sh1t.

well i just done a test.i used standard turbo pistons.admitedly the lifters had no oil pressure(obviously) but the valve a had lift 6 mm.i also used no head gasket so there is another 1mm. so we have a lift of 7 mm(dont know what full lift is) i put blu-tac on the valve recess on the top of the piston and cranked it around a few times.then removed the head.there was still a solid 10mm or so of blu-tac that was unaffected.so unless it has a valve lift of 17mm lmfao i cant see how a turbo engine could ever smash a valve due to the timing belt breaking