How many miles?
10-16-2006, 02:38 PM
#14
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RE: How many miles?
why does everyone think cars are bad if they hit 100,000 miles. Only if you don't keep them up, and maintain them correctly will you have problems. My car has 130,000 miles and has never had any major problems. It runs perfect and the oil is always clean. If you start modding any motor, regardless of miles, you can run into problems. But if you do it right, you won't have any worries, its just a risk you have to take if you want a faster car. But just because it hits 100,000 miles don't think you need to be saving for a motor just yet, your car will let you know if the time is near.
10-16-2006, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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RE: How many miles?
Clix,
I would recommend that you do not put a nitrous kit onto your car without doing some additional work to it. Nitrous places additional strain on your engine, in particular seals, pistons, and rods. The additional energy nitrous adds to your combustion mix will bang the bujeezus out of your pistons and add additional twisting forces to your rods not to mention the additional cooling strain. At the age of your engine, and the fact that you've clocked significantly more than 12k miles per year -- I wouldn't go down the nitrous road without an engine rebuild. Now, mind you the vast majority of my nitrous experience is with rice rockets; however the principles are the same.
Look into an X or H-pipe, a new throttle body, gearing or something less "harsh". Bottom line is that nitrous, even on a built engine, reduces the lifespan of your engine -- there is a message in the bottle and that message is beware!
This is just my opinion, with it an $3, you can get a cheap beer at happy hour; your mileage may vary depending on driving conditions.
br,
Dave
I would recommend that you do not put a nitrous kit onto your car without doing some additional work to it. Nitrous places additional strain on your engine, in particular seals, pistons, and rods. The additional energy nitrous adds to your combustion mix will bang the bujeezus out of your pistons and add additional twisting forces to your rods not to mention the additional cooling strain. At the age of your engine, and the fact that you've clocked significantly more than 12k miles per year -- I wouldn't go down the nitrous road without an engine rebuild. Now, mind you the vast majority of my nitrous experience is with rice rockets; however the principles are the same.
Look into an X or H-pipe, a new throttle body, gearing or something less "harsh". Bottom line is that nitrous, even on a built engine, reduces the lifespan of your engine -- there is a message in the bottle and that message is beware!
This is just my opinion, with it an $3, you can get a cheap beer at happy hour; your mileage may vary depending on driving conditions.
br,
Dave
10-16-2006, 03:53 PM
#17
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 31
RE: How many miles?
my 93 5.0 liter has only a little over 80k on it. provided you are decent with maintenance it will last you at least well over 200k miles. i bet 250 even. 100k is nothing. watch out when you get to 100k though. in my experience when a vehicle gets to that point it starts burning more oil, and you may need add oil often. i've seen some work trucks that i've had in the past seize engines because all the oil burned out. my 03 mach 1 only has a little over 43k. i had a 73 mach 1 that had over 130k when i sold it. ran just as good as the day i bought it with 55k on it. had to replace an alternator, water pump, radiator, and carburetor by that time though. not too bad.
