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The Rover T16 DOHC 16 valve engine was a 1994 cc petrol engine, produced by Rover from 1992 to 1999. It has a bore of 84.45 mm (3.325 in) and a stroke of 88.9 mm (3.5 in). It is a development of the M-Series (M16) engine which was built from 1986 to 1992 and developed as part of Rover's Project XX, which produced the Rover 800. The M-16 was in turn a 16 valve development of the British Leyland O Series engine - introduced in 1978 -, which dated back to the BMC B-Series engine as found in the MG B and many others. Rover's L series diesel (derived from the Perkins Prima, itself a development of the O Series engine) uses the same block as the T16.
Several variants of the T16 were produced for various models, but all had the same displacement. The version used by Land Rover, almost exclusively in early Discovery models, produced 136 horsepower (101 kW). It was included in the product lineup entirely as a European tax beater, but the engine wasn't really up to the job of lugging 2 tonnes of metal off-road, or towing large loads on-road, since the headline horsepower figures were only supplied at high revs. Automatic gearbox equipped versions were particularly gutless in comparison with the other engine choices available, and so this engine option was soon dropped. The engine and it's turbocharged variants saw widespread and better suited use in Rover cars of the time.
Land Rover also fitted the T16 engine to a special batch of Defenders built for the Italian Carabinieri, which operated an exclusively petrol-powered vehicle fleet.
Engine Code:T16
Layout: 4-cylinder, in-line
Block/Head: Cast iron/Aluminium alloy
Valves: DOHC 16v
Capacity: 1994 cc (121.68 cu. in)
Bore x stroke: 84.45 mm x 88.9 mm (3.325 in x 3.5 in)
Compression ratio: 10:1
Fuel Injection: Lucas Multi-Point
Power: 136 bhp (101 kW) @ 6,000 rpm
Torque: 136 lbf·ft (184.4 N·m) @ 2,500 rpm
Production: 1992-1999
Used in: Discovery 1, special order Defender, Rover cars
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