My 88 FC hit 250k yesterday!

 

thats amazing. original motor?

 

Yup. No rebuild either. Bought it from my Aunt in '05 who bought it new in 88. She wasn't the best driver, so there's some visible (poor) paint blends where body work has been done, but still original core engine.

Had an engine bay fire in Dec, but damage was minimal (the usual casualties for that; FPR, PD, vacuum lines, OMP lines, oil injectors, wiring harness, TPS, etc.)

Have replaced nickel and dime stuff over the past 5 years; starter, battery, alternator, PS lines, vacuum booster, AC compressor (tried to do without, but it was just too damn hot).

Serisouly thinking about fixing it up cosmetically; rims/wheels/bodywork/paint/etc. Afraid that if I do, it'll up and die on me.



From May/June 05. paint is not as nice any more

 

wow. im not that far behind you. i have approx. 242k miles on a rebuilt motor.

 

awesome

 

great!

 

Good stuff! Next time someone says rotaries are unreliable, rip your gauge cluster out of the car and beat them with it.

 

100 more and you can pay the lochness monster.

john ny

 

that awesome dude

 

Ha. I never hear that from folks I talk to 'cause none of 'em know what the hell a rotary is. When they hear 1.3 L, they just scratch their heads, and ask if I get like 50mpg or something

 

i'm almost 200K on a orriginal seals car

 

lol thought i was the only one

my 88 fc is clockin 234,xxx original an still goin.an i run the s**t out of it

and then my starter solenoid goes out after i leave church

so i had to clutch kick it in the parking lot

me too though i wanna fix mine up but then im afraid itll crap out on me

 

When I first got it, I was babying it... running it at lower RPMs, etc. Then I read where it might be bad on it to run it that low, so I started running it at higher RPMs. Low and behold it actually started running better! Now when I have a passenger and they listen to the engine while I'm shifting, they give me **** saying "dude, your going to ruin that engine running it so high". So I have them lean over and look at the tach and point out the 7k red line

 

and who says that rotaries dont last... good **** man! 250 and going strong!

 

are these stock NAs? or turbos?

 

88 stock SE no mods (N/A)

 

well that is awesome. I know alot of people who open their mouths about rotarys from what they hear about them..

I like to say
There is 2 kinds of people, those who fear the rotary from what they heard about it, and those who have experienced and love them for their performance.

Piston engines are just more idiot proof/take more user error. but take care of maintenance on rotary and its all good.

 

gj, keep it going aslong as possible. 250k is a good distance for that motor.

 

i see that NAs last long if taken care of correctly but its rare to see a Turbo FC past 145K with original engine.

 

261K yesterday bitch

A few weeks ago-


and yeah that's stock

 

wow how strong does it run??

 

haha nice man!!! haha 260...

 

Most excellent!

 

na's run forever. gf's is up to like 180k. i thought that was high; then i saw this thread.

 

Damn! That's nice.