Honda C engine

The Honda C engine is the C series of V6 engines, the first V6 that Honda put into production. It was built in displacements from 2.0 to 3.5 liters for more than twenty years, from 1985 to 2005, and first appeared in the KA series Legend, the model also sold in Britain as the Rover 800 series and the Sterling. It was the second mass produced Japanese V6, arriving two years after the Nissan VG engine. Every C engine has a 90 degree angle between its cylinder banks, shared bore centers in the block and four valves per cylinder. The all aluminum design uses a timing belt to drive single or dual overhead camshafts and the water pump. All of them are interference engines, so a failed belt lets open valves strike the pistons. The family divides into three sub families, transverse, transverse rear mounted and longitudinal, and parts do not generally interchange between them.