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Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?

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Old 03-17-2008, 05:42 PM
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Default Who's thrilled by the durability of their 5.0s?

I've just been having a lot of fun with my car lately, and it seems to actually like being driven hard. By hard, I mean running the engine hard...not thrashing the tranny. Anyway, the car seems to run better when I drive it hard, and puts up with year after year of spirited daily driving. Are others' cars proving to be as durable and trustworthy as mine?
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Old 03-17-2008, 05:48 PM
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Mine has been a beast over the years. Very impressed!!
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Old 03-17-2008, 06:07 PM
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all mine have held up with countless beatings
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Old 03-17-2008, 06:07 PM
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mine 160k later runs like a beast and yeah i have noticed the harder i run the engine the better it does.
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Haven't finished working on mine yet. I've spent so much time and money in getting it working, I'm scared to drive it hard, fearing something else will break.
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Old 03-17-2008, 06:36 PM
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ORIGINAL: bbbngowc

Haven't finished working on mine yet. I've spent so much time and money in getting it working, I'm scared to drive it hard, fearing something else will break.
I hear ya. It always seems like the people that drive them hard don't have problems, and the ones that baby them do...
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Old 03-17-2008, 07:06 PM
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I'm thrilled till something go's wrong and it will if you mod them enough. But when it is running i forget about the headache's and the cussing.
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Old 03-17-2008, 08:23 PM
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My current fox is a pile but it runs awesome.

Motor is probably only thing solid on the entire car.
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Old 03-17-2008, 08:35 PM
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my engine is SOLID as a rock, it loves being driven hard as hell, never had any problems with 120k miles on the clock and counting
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Old 03-17-2008, 08:38 PM
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Its usually the trannys and thats cause people don't use them right, mine has run hard since I got it
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