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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
The Honda K24 engine used in the Element, later Accords, and CRV's have a chain. No more belt at the expense that you get some "chain whine". Small price to pay IMHO.
My 2011 Accord has this engine with the iVTEC head and no variable displacement (full-time 4 banger) and does ~25mpg in town driving, ~36mpg highway, ~26mpg combined. My manual Civic I had before it did 30/38mpg. Pretty impressive economy from a car as big as the Accord with a slushbox.
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The K24 is a sweet little engine. It powers our 04 CR-V. The only complaint I have about it, and I'm spoiled now working on MBs, is the oil filter is a spin on type. That wouldn't be so bad except it's mounted horizontally. And it's right over the exhaust pipe.
So you can't do an oil change from the top. You have to raise it, get underneath, try not to get burnt by the hot exhaust pipe, and keep from getting hot oil pouring down your arm as you remove the filter. Then your car smells like it needs a ring job or valve seals for the next 500 miles as it burns the oil off the outside of the pipe.
Other than that, it is a great engine. I had a 85 Civic that blew the water pump and took out the timing belt, learned the hard way about interference engines on I-285 in Atlanta. The water pump started squeaking and I was actually on my way to the Honda place to get the WP replaced but did not make it.
In the meantime we owned about 5 or 6 Hondas between us over the next 20 years, so I had gotten some serious religion about changing the timing belt at 100k. I was pleasantly surprised when I took the CR-V in for its 100k service and was prepared to be separated from the better part of a $1000 for a timing belt job. The advisor laughed and said, no belt on this engine, it's a chain.