Hello All:
My Acura 91 ran very well till last week ( 130K miles).. One fine day it just would not start.

It is cranking and seems to have no problem with Battery. I took it to the mechanic and he tells me that it is a timing belt problem but could be much more than just timing belt.

he says that because of the kind of engine that Acura uses, some valves would have been damaged when I cranked up trying to start the car and it would take about a $1500 to fix these valves and timing belt. The problem gets even more complicated as he can not for sure say if the valves are damaged until he puts on the timing belt and only then can he say if there was problem with valves.

Please advise what I should do with this. I am actually thinking of discarding the car if I have to spend this much of time and money on this.

Thanks
Easy Guy