Well, one of my fellow co workers who is also going to UF is selling a 95 neon for 500. He claims it has bent valves from the timing belt snapping. I wanted to check out whether this was possible.

 

anything is possible.

Bent 3 exhaust valves in my 72 318 when the Timing chain went.
I can't imagine that the motor was an interference motor due to it being an american v8 from the early 70's.

 

Neon Interference engine, Walter's truck, Non Interference. Pushrod engines are overhead valves, where as Over head Cam engines are Cam(s) over the valves/ or in the head depending how you look at it.

 

Timing belt isn't required until 110K as far as the ticking my Neon ticked and we came to the conclusion that mine was my injecytors ticking. We dumped so Injector cleaner and did a baisic tune up and changed belts and the ticking quieted some. I had 30psi of oilat Idle.