The old Corollas in the 70s and 80s had timing chains. In the 90s, Honda, Toyota, and even Nissan started making belt-driven cranks instead of chains. Now they are back to timing chains. What happened?
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TBH there’s not really that much of a trend, both have benefits and both are still commonplace. It’s more that specific engines use one or the other and sometimes, one specific engine model or architecture becomes incredibly commonplace. Like, for a while Ford stuck Duratec engines into damn nearly everything and some of those cars were among the most common in the world. So that one engine means “lots of cars have chains”.
There’s definitely been a backlash against wet belts though.
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